This is not, I think, the first time Ralph Towner's 1974 ECM album has been reissued: does that make it a re-reissue, or even a re-re-reissue? Some of the complexity of describing Towner's sophomore set was intentional on the part of its creator, since it's a solo recording where Towner's 12-string and classical guitars rarely play alone: apart from ‘Entry in a Diary’ and ‘Mon Enfant’, tracks have layered textures courtesy of Towner's own overdubs – on piano, duetting beautifully with himself on the splendid ‘Ogden Road’, for instance, not to mention the equally splendid ‘Icarus’, but also on gongs during the primeval moods of ‘Images Unseen’. So, it's a case of Orwellian jazz: two hands good, four hands better. ‘Mon Enfant’ is the one non-original and features only two hands, though even in its pellucid sparsity one passage sounds as though it could be the work of four. ‘Erg’ has some immense fluttering-juggernaut percussive guitar work – and made me wonder whether Eddie Van Halen was influenced by Towner's playing.