The Iris idea surfaced on 2012's And In The Night-Time She Is There with a three-piece chamber suite entitled ‘The Iris Nonet’. This time the moniker is used as a name for her new project, a good, old-fashioned organ trio plus tenor sax. But don't expect an excursion into 1950s and 1960s soul-jazz grooves. Clowes is interested in exploring the collective potential of the musical voices at her disposal in terms of textures and individual expressionism that does not stray too far from the composer's intentions. The album's high-spot is the Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian commission for this project, ‘Muted Lines’, whose internal logic is perhaps ultimately more satisfying than some of Clowes' sometimes knotty and angular originals. However, ‘Blue Calm’ and ‘In Between the Moss and Ivy’ have, in their different ways, a poise and depth that is rewarding.