The 34-year-old German drummer Benny Greb is the kind of powerhouse groove monster that demands your attention. But his new trio featuring Kit Downes and Chris Montague, two thirds of the high-flying electric band Troyka is by and large a tasteful and broad idiomatic take on the field of contemporary fusion. As well as working with Colin Towns on his NDR Big Band tribute to Frank Zappa and recent fusion troupe Blue Touch Paper, Greb also has a background playing reggae, punk and rock with bands back in his native land. On Moving Parts Greb pulls all these influences together. Downes provides the bass on keys but sparingly and this creates space and ambience in the music. On ‘Soulfood’ Montague demonstrates his jam band credentials with a John Scofield-ish infectiously dirty blues-funk riff; ‘Bunker’ is an eerie revisit to the jazz-rock era without any of the muso over-indulgences, while Greb draws more from world music influences on the orientallike ‘September’ theme with Downes' cosmic jazz-ish keys also reminiscent of Weather Report era Joe Zawinul; ‘Kalimba’ speaks for itself, a thinly textured hybrid of African and reggae music.