Recorded when he was just 27-years-old and enjoying considerable crossover success as a member of the Dave Pike Set, German guitarist Volker Kriegel’s second solo album presents the fully-formed musical vision of a young man with a wide-ranging imagination and energy to burn. Opening track, ‘Zoom’, is a psychedelic dance-jazz classic with driving, funky drums and Kriegel doubling up on sitar and over-driven fuzz guitar. On ‘Suspicious About D’, the band stretches out into free-jazz territory, with a tumultuous opening scrabble full of taught Sonny Sharrockisms giving way to propulsive Ornette-style free-bop with Peter Trunk walking the bass all over the place and providing a buoyant backdrop for virtuoso guitar stylings that meld Wes Montgomery chording with flick-knife rock’n’roll. Elsewhere, there’s pastoral psych-folk-rock (‘Suspicious Child, Growing Up’) and spiky electric jazz with Brit-jazz hero, John Taylor, supplying the heat on electric piano (‘Instant Judgement’). File this alongside Terje Rypdal’s recently reissued debut solo joint Bleak House as an example of genre-busting guitar-led instrumental music that still sounds startlingly fresh more than four decades on.