This seventh album from the Buenos Aires¬born, US-based singer-songwriter Roxana Amed presents a supremely atmospheric collection of 14 songs. As evidenced by album opener ‘Tumbleweed’, which vibrates between sweetness and edgy abstraction, what Amed does exceptionally well is to draw the listener in by creating very specific sound-worlds. Much of the album's success hinges on the dynamic interplay between Amed and her musicians, exemplified by the way they collectively lock in together during the coda of the blazing ‘El Regreso’, the impressively vast harmonic slabs they carve out during the supercharged ‘Chacarera Para la Mano Izquierda, and the way in which ‘Amor’ begins in sotto voce understatement before exploding into life. Recorded by Wayne Shorter on his classic 1964 Blue Note album, Night Dreamer, Amed reimagines ‘Virgo’ with the addition of her newly penned lyrics (“A star is crossing the skies and a child is born”), aptly paired here with the vocal version of ‘Blue In Green’. There are also impressive reworkings of two of the three Danzas Argentinas by the great twentieth-century Argentinian composer, Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), originally written for solo piano. Sequenced back to back, albeit in reverse order, the understated, melodious ‘Danza de la Moza Donosa’ (to which Amed similarly appends new lyrics) provides a stark contrast to the biting bitonaility of ‘Danza del viejo boyero’, cast as a wordless vocalese.