These unreleased 2008 sessions form an origin story and farewell to Halsall's Gondwana Orchestra in its current form, as he prepares a new context for his spiritual jazz explorations. Deeming them too “sensitive” to release as his career began, their snapshot of a Northwest English scene cohering is intimately inviting. A tanpura drone's bent pulse links the tracks, along with the unfolding human stories they document. The titular, yearning ripples of ‘Stan's Harp’ record the late, then 77-year-old harpist Stan Ambrose, a gentle man familiar to Halsall from a Liverpool cafe. The discrete, brightly glistening notes of Rachael Gladwin's harp two months later bring the Gondwana template closer. Halsall's own playing bows to Miles, most explicitly with his nocturnal, Buddhist blues trumpet on Oneness'. Gavin Barras's rooting regularity on bass is crucial, Nat Birchall's sinuous sax distinctive. The soft punch of drums on ‘Distant Land’ as the bass hitches and rolls, like Halsall's occasional declarative force, adds dynamics to the calm. This record is special for the same reason it was unreleasable a decade ago. It eavesdrops on limpidly simple music, as its players feel their way towards a sound.