Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music graduate Sam Gardner, a drummer who might have attracted your attention playing in a smart new piano trio led by Dominic J Marshall, who excels in the role of sideman on this, their debut recording. The band name Samadhi and unwieldy track titles such as ‘The Doctrine of Interdependence’ and ‘Kinesphere’ point to Gardner's interest in the relations between Buddhist spirituality and cosmology but also to the influence of Steve Coleman's M-Base, a key connection also to the F-IRE Collective. In line with this, the band has a 1970's cosmic soul jazz flavour about it, updated by Gardner's inventive absorption of contemporary hip hop (another influence is the Terence Blanchard drummer Kendrick Scott's band Oracle), latin-influenced vamps (enhanced by Sam Bell's additional percussion) and more understated rhythmic elements drawn from Indian classical music – Gardner has studied tabla since 2009 and assimilated it into his kit playing. Along the way we hear some exhilaratingly hypnotic solos from Marshall on both acoustic and electric piano, with his funkily neo-soul vibe echoing something of Stanley Cowell as well as his mainman Robert Glasper. Meanwhile the award winning UK-based Polish saxophonist Krzysztof Urbanski and the rich-toned bassist Sam Vicary make up a very impressive young line-up that have a refreshing, organic approach to contemporary groove-jazz.