It says something about the grand ambitions of Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit that, by releasing an hour of music by a 12-piece ensemble, they’ve considerably scaled things down. After the excesses of 2014’s huge debut box-set Erta Ale and the Brazilian-inflected ANA, recorded by a swollen line-up in 2016, Fluku seems almost sleek in comparison. Actually, what it reveals is Nilssen-Love’s skill as a composer and arranger in stretching simple ideas out to monolithic proportions. The 27-minute opening title-track is a cogent case in point: beginning with a wash of hi-hat white noise and queasy guitar puke, it builds to a tottering wall of horns before, around eight minutes in, plunging into a lumbering central riff and finally taking 10 long, slow minutes to subside into stasis. There’s a compositional audacity here – and an urge to experiment with an expanded, almost orchestral palette – that can’t fail to bring to mind George Russell’s epochal Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature, first recorded in Norway in 1968.