The irrepressible blast delivered at Love Supreme festival this summer by bass maestro Stanley Clarke, backed by a young and hungry band, served as a juicy reminder, if one were needed, of a time when fusion wasn't just the high benchmark in technical virtuosity for American jazzers, but a lingua franca for adventurous instrumentalists around the world. This debut album by Spanish prog-fusion outfit Borne ticks all the boxes: furious bass and drum riffing, wailing Moog solos and snarling, Mahavishnu-like electric guitar, touching along the way on latin vamps, languid funk and even some four-to-the-floor heavy swing. But the boys from Barcelona still managed to inject their own flavours: guitarist Victor Molero throws out plenty of Iberian flourishes and, on ‘Rumbacústica’, switches to acoustic for a genuine flamenco feel; and keyboardist Ricardo Rauet smothers the proceedings in lush and luxuriant synths evoking a poolside cocktail on a hot, sultry evening.