This new album from the multi-award-winning tenorist, bandleader and composer, Nubya Garcia, which follows her 2020 release on Concord Jazz, Source, represents an inspiring sonic leap forward. As well as pulsating modal workouts (‘The Seer’), there's real melodic beauty, too, from ‘Set It Free’ (featuring London-based vocalist and trombonist Richie Seivwright) and ‘We Walk In Gold’ (featuring US vocalist, producer, and songwriter Georgia Anne Muldrow) to the ethereal beauty of the instrumental ‘Clarity’. Garcia also reveals some lovely arranging touches – the way in which the Chineke! strings and guest vocalist esperanza spalding introduce album opener ‘Dawn’ in free time, while the core trio of Joe Armon-Jones, Daniel Casimir and Sam Jones slowly introduce pulse in a gradual fade in; the dramatic strings only coda appended to the epic title track; the fabulously rich string pizzicati which drive ‘Water's Path’ ever onwards; plus strings and sax ascending together in the all-too-brief ‘Clarity (Outerlude)’.