Unlike many an attempt at ‘world-fusion’ there's nothing ersatz about this sumptuous, 39-minute suite of Egyptian jazz from Cairo-based composer and bandleader, Maurice Louca. Recorded in Stockholm, it features a stellar 12-piece ensemble including Swedes Anna Högberg and Elsa Bergman – but the overwhelming vibe is a sultry North African heat haze, with guitar and oud sketching Arabic folk-dance melodies that set the mood for languid excursions bristling with multi-horned free-jazz brawn. With the combination of Nubian grandeur and New Thing density, there's something distinctly Arkestral about the sound – a connection made even more explicit by the gruff baritone sax riff that emerges out of opening track ‘The Leper.’ The standout cut, though, is ‘In The Palm Of A Ghost’, co-written by Egyptian vocalist Nadah El Shazly, whose critically lauded 2017 debut album, Ahwar, was a beguiling mix of song, electronics and instrumental improvisation. Here, her sensuous, heavy-lidded vocals set a mood of deadly seduction while Ayman Asfour's violin weaves smoky, microtonal tendrils around her. The title-track, meanwhile, is a dreamy mirage of ethereal cosmic jazz with rippling splashes of vibraphone. Give yourself over to it.