This is a remarkably successful and coherent free jazz/free improvisation set. Dunmall and Sanders will be familiar names to Jazzwise readers, the Italian bassist Sebastiano Dessanay and pianist Sebastiano Meloni less so. Although entirely improvised, the music seems to have been chosen later to reflect what feels like a quite unique partnership. Rather than a portrait of one or two aspects of this quartet in performance, the listener gets to hear a much broader presentation of the range of possibilities it has to offer. As such, the group is able to move from wild, free-ranging Taylor-esque improvisations (‘Four Phases’ and ‘Movement No.3’) to reflective, slow-moving, introspective pieces (‘Nocturne’ and ‘Second Landscape’) without ever losing a sense of itself as a collective entity. At the heart of this record is the series of duets built around pianist Meloni, ‘Sketches for Two’. The overriding impression here is of a truly delicate sense of engagement and respect. Anyone wishing to begin to understand free jazz and its close to distant cousin would do very well to start here.