After a decade faithful to their beloved and classic trio format, Phronesis find themselves borne aloft upon the giant sound of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. Given wings by the arrangements of Julian Argüelles, who knows the FRBB and Phronesis with some intimacy, the band's back catalogue comes alive with a re-visioning that yet remains true to the originals. It would have been ‘easy’ for Argüelles to reimagine the songs in his own image, reshaping them through the lens of his own experience of Loose Tubes and the European big band scene. There's an element of that in the fresh chordings of ‘Untitled #1’. But in general Argüelles remains true to the band's own arrangements, adding instead colourations, dynamic build and tectonic structures for the likes of Stefan Weber's tenor to erupt on the urgent propulsion of ‘Stillness’ or for Christian Jaksjø's unlikely bass trumpet to sing on ‘Charm Defensive’. By not attempting to get a big band to replicate the details and intricacies of the trio's fleet-footed interplay, Argüelles has liberated both Phronesis and the orchestra to do what they each do best. You'll gaze amazed as this dragon dances.