Double bassist Olie Brice is establishing a real presence on the free improv scene. Among his credits are as sideman for the trumpeter Nick Malcolm's quintet (with Alexander Hawkins), co-leadership of Catatumbo with New York-based saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and Riverloam trio with the legendary Polish feral jazz saxophonist Mikolaj Trzaska. The association with Poland is continued on his debut as leader, Immune to Clockwork for the Polish label Multikulti with a quintet that includes the young alto clarinettist Waclaw Zimpel. Brice seems to relish the challenge of playing with musicians that have an overlap in terms of influences yet come from different areas musically and here it provides lots of colour to the session. Zimpel's lyrical, baroque solo flights sometimes recall the American specialist Don Byron having as well something of an eastern European flavour to them. From the LOOP Collective we hear the distinctively richly doleful tones of tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip, and the astute trumpeter Alex Bonney. The veteran of the pack is the versatile London-based American drummer Jeff Williams. Although there's no chordal instrument as such, brass-and-wind combine for themes that are lush harmonically and there's plenty of scope for collective improv throughout Brice's compositions, that can have a feel of the free jazz era about them with an example ‘The Hands’ faintly recalling Ornette's ‘Lonely Woman’.