Born in Armenia but raised in Marseilles, 28-year-old Karapetian for some years has been based in Paris, where he studied alongside several of his colleagues here. Subsequently the recipient of a one-year scholarship to Berklee, completed shortly before the pandemic struck, he’s also been a member of the trio Onefoot, along with his bassist brother Marc.

That said, the intellectual interest and insistent intensity of what he does at the keys is, for this listener at least, mirrored by a certain lack of sensitivity. Though there are obvious hooks on some of the nine tracks, and there are brief solos here and there from Gosse and Sefsouf, the focus does seem very much on the pianist. The feel of the whole 39 minutes suggests a scenario of 'progressive rock meets post-fusion jazz, and wins'. You can imagine a stadium cheering this music, and afterwards wondering what it was all about.