To Vanish is Australian trio Trichotomy's sixth album in a lively lifespan as a regular lineup - they convened as students in Queensland in 1999, and have steadily been staking a claim to a place on that 21st century piano-trio podium that also features The Bad Plus, EST, Vijay Iyer and Tord Gustavsen ever since.

The light-touch keyboard skills of Sean Foran and the speed of thought and conversational suppleness of bassist Samuel Vincent and drummer John Parker give their sound its individual and collective character, which they coolly apply to swing, funk, ambient spacewalks, electronica, abstract-improv and much more.

Pedal steel guitar, a bassoon, and producer Thomas Green's effects make guest appearances here, but the uncanny ebb and flow of the founders’ playing together is always the unmistakeable undertow. Minimalism seductively drives the tracks ‘Forward Motion’ and ‘Mercury’ – the first a pulsing single-note piano pattern amid quietly powerful pizzicato bass variations that becomes a spacey throb of treble-piano trickles and voicelike chimes, the second a three-note hook that becomes the heartbeat of sleek jazz variations dissolving into windblown sounds. A fast bassline and piano ripples over hustling drumming segue into ghostly electronics on ‘A Sense of Ordered Chaos’, ‘Fibonacci’ is an assymmetrical, bassoon-strutting, rhythm-juggling chatter, and the melodiously-rolling acoustic piece ‘Lynette’ catches the trio at its collectively-grooving best. A little more of that effortlessly hip vibe would perhaps be welcome to some jazzers, but genre-hopping is the name of Trichotomy's game, and they have the broad-based following to prove it.