A sensuous debut from not so much a band as a family. It would be easy to position Talinka as a sub-set of the Orient House Ensemble, considering the shared personnel. But liberated from drums, there's an airy spaciousness about Talinka's music, a music that is never far from the taste of tears, which is a long way from Orient House's intensity. Instead, we have stately paced standards like ‘Don't Explain’ and a downright scary ‘You Don't Know What Love Is’. Both feature Harrison's spare piano: if not a full time member of Talinka, he's very much part of the Atzmon family, as is Stavi's glow in the dark bass. But it's Tali Atzmon's vox that are the soul of Talinka. Her range is not the widest, but the simplicity of her presentation makes it all the stronger: the middle eastern intonation adds an edge to those blues, while she steps light yet with passion through the tango phantasmagoria of ‘Four 2 Tango’. And like the actress she is, she inhabits the narrative of a song like ‘Every Now and Then’, bringing it lustrously alive. Mix in Bliss Bennet's colours and Talinka delivers a heady brew; that chap on sax and accordion has something about him too, though he's most restrained on this outing, and perhaps all the more impactful for that.