Hope you’ve not been holding your breath since Trio Convulsant’s debut, because that was 18 years ago and you’d be a peculiar colour by now. But Dunn won’t mind as he relishes painting in the most challenging of musical hues. Back then Halvorson and Smith were bright young tyros, liberated by Dunn to provoke and explore. Seances finds them no less adventurous, but within Dunn’s compositions they now have an assured authority reflecting their clout as leaders in their own right, if that phrase means anything in their collaborative, Big Apple world.

Informed by Paul Desmond/Jim Hall’s strings-dense Desmond Blue, Dunn pitches the freer, rock-edged trio against the intimately intense chamber juices of Folie a Quatre. At this stage names like Zorn and Berne usually get thrown in the mix but Dunn and co. very much carve their own space: Halvorson comes on at times like a bastard child of Tony Iommi and Derek Bailey, cocking an ear perhaps to Jeff Parker’s distortions, while Smith goes rogue without losing his discipline as on ‘Secours Meurtrie’ which also features cloud chasing fiddle. Then we’re wrong footed as it all goes lyrical and spacey on ‘Thaumaturge’, with serpentine flute and strings. Trio Convulsants: movers and shakers indeed. But let’s not wait another 18 years.