Few artists have been better positioned to appreciate the vision of John McLaughlin. A fan since his teen years, Husband has been McLaughlin’s keys man (and second drummer!) through Industrial Zen to the 4th Dimension, a span of over a decade. So this gorgeous evocation of McLaughlin’s music, all on acoustic piano, is a real view from the inside. The oddity, however, is that this first Husband outing on Edition is actually a re-run of an album that’s only, criminally, had a US release. Husband’s piano work, so articulate, so spare, so straight to the heart is ridiculously rare, so any opportunity to hear Husband at the keys has got to be welcome, even on a 12-year-old release. Hopefully Edition can see this as the start of a rich relationship. Husband’s approach, like McLaughlin’s, is eclectic: he can be meditative with long glistening runs as on ‘Spirits Opening’, he can be rambunctious, slapping and rattling the piano’s body on a broadly grinning ‘Celestial Terrestrial Commuters’ or downright mysterious, as on the fleeting excerpt, ‘Jazz Jungle’. Most of the cuts are tight and over half the 13 songs come in under two minutes: the epic contrast though is ‘Are You The One’, replete with piano percussion and sampled vox.