This is a well-executed album, impeccably recorded but one senses that these fine musicians are playing within themselves, including the exuberant Bollani. Even the lilting opener, ‘Easy Healing’ that sounds for all the world like a distant relative of Keith Jarrett's ‘New Dance’, has a politeness and self-effacing modesty that leaves listeners at arm's length, rather than drawing them into the vortex of the music. Frisell lays out for ‘No Pope No Party’ and ‘Las Hortensias’ but is featured in duo with Bollani on ‘Teddy’, but somehow you get the feeling that both he and Turner in their respective features do not want to put a foot wrong. Album highlights are the more committed ‘Tales from the Time Loop’, an intriguing, mysterioso ‘Vale’ and the title track, all with the quintet. This, Bollani's third ECM album under his own name, emerges as an enigmatic statement that set alongside the pianist's remarkable achievements with his trio (especially live) and with Enrico Rava, serves as a reminder that when every artist goes into the recording studio he or she is in eternal competition with their past.