This record has a very particular soundworld that’s established on the very first track, ‘If Pegasus Had One Wing’, with Sylwia Bialas’ voice floating over a tight piano trio, and then engaging in some scatting that seems to be brilliantly shadowed by Sirkis’s energetic drumming. (Except that actually the drums were recorded first and Sylwia laid the vocal over them, but the illusion is very well-done.) There’s a pervasive otherworldly keyboard timbre from Frank Harrison that contrasts with his more percussive acoustic piano, and maybe there’s a bit too much abstract swashing in and out of tracks. The reflective – occasionally funereal – tempi require some serious listening after one’s initial impulse to jump to the end is overcome. But, as always with Asaf Sirkis, there’s movement and some shimmering percussive patterns to be heard even in the apparent stillness of a track like ‘Reminiscence’. The album’s heart is the ‘Earth Suite’, 20 minutes of otherworldly reflection that occupies much of the second CD in the set. Bialas’ accomplished cover art shows hands nurturing trees from a crop circle – a concise image of what the music conveys. The first movement, ‘Rooting’, opens up to a vigorous piano solo as the roots take hold, while the second, the title-track, includes many world music influences. Absorbing sounds, that take a while to absorb.