It's a long time since pianist Mark Springer first stepped out from his role as musical brain behind early 1980s UK avant-garde punk-jazz outfit Rip Rig + Panic and started releasing solo music. It's hard not to feel that he's been heading in the wrong direction ever since. While his first solo album – 1984's Piano – showed a restless creative intelligence sprinkled with wry wit and effervescent energy, his extemporisations have, to these ears, been becoming less and less engaging with each successive release. Here, he presents a suite of 10 spontaneous compositions, all recorded live, which seems to be striving for a kind of concert hall respectability, yet which, in doing so, seem to have jettisoned any trace of excitement or unpredictability. Other than perhaps Rip Rig + Panic obsessives (if such a thing exists), it's hard to fathom who'd give up an hour of their lives to listen to these turgid meanderings.