Tunisian oud player and singer Dhafer Youssef is a gift to jazz, a musician and composer whose intense ambition and pursuit of the sublime have resulted in works of complex, almost architectural grandeur, and whose lust for collaboration and experimentation is exemplified to typically boundary-blurring effect here. Flanked by the renowned Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain, whose mathematical patterns feel readymade for Youssef’s sinewy Middle Eastern modes, along with Turkish-born clarinetist Senlendirici and Norwegian guitarist Aarset, Youssef builds dreamlike soundscapes in ways meditative and eminently accessible. Twelve original tracks composed and arranged by Youssef and honed on tour foreground the adaptability of Indian music and the empathy guaranteed by four musicians at the top of their game. Youssef’s dreamy vocalese mirrors the tone of the wind instrument on the likes of ‘Like Dust I May Rise’, while Aarset’s spare, ECM-like chords on opener ‘Humankind’ beg contemplation. There’s groove here, too, with the oud’s odd rhythms sounding like even beats, especially when improvised. Elevating stuff.