With John Taylor's recent, sudden and unexpected death, this posthumously released album has a considerable weight of anticipation riding on it. The music – inspired by the writing of Kurt Vonnegut – was first aired by a specially assembled octet at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2012, where the commission was part of the celebrations of Taylor's 70th birthday. Here it is recorded with the sparser forces of a quartet including his two sons Alex (vocal) and Leo (drums). Overall, despite some great and atmospheric moments, the end result does not quite live up to the build-up of expectation. Alex's vocals capture the futuristic spirit of the story, but take some getting used to, and sadly there is no help from the producers by giving us a transcript of the lyrics, so that piecing together the tale that inspired the piece and how it has been woven into the texture of the music is something the listener has to work quite hard to discover. John Taylor plays as elegantly as ever, his touch, ideas and harmonic imagination are totally distinctive and Leo Taylor's drumming, sensitive and aggressive by turns interacts very successfully with him. Oren Marshall's burbling tuba adds a sombre tonal range that is dark and deep, although missing some of the wider palette of sounds that was apparent during the live Cheltenham performance. All in all it's just wide of the mark from being a really significant memorial to a great musician.