Léandre is an acclaimed double bassist, improviser and composer who played in Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain and for whom John Cage composed material. She has also worked with a number of eminent jazz musicians, including Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, William Parker, Steve Lacy and John Zorn. Here, in front of a small Parisian audience, she is joined by the Parisian jazz/improv mainstay Benoît Delbecq on piano and Canadian clarinetist Francois Houle – a combination dubbed in the accompanying blurb as the ‘heavy artillery’ of new music. That may be broadly true in terms of status, but musically there are no howitzers: these tracks are tentative, textural, only occasionally blowing up into anything bigger or bolder. Creating seemingly endless possibilities, they explore extended techniques with nuance and subtlety. These are not tunes you whistle afterwards: there are no earworms. Yet the sensitivity of, and reactivity between, the three musicians is extraordinary.