Argüelles' 12th release as leader finds him weaving together the musical skeins that make up his musical mind. This is his second album with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band with whom he's developed a rewarding collaboration, while the presence of long time pal Django Bates needs no explication. But the rainbow overarching the project is the gorgeous music of the South African exiles who came to Britain 50 years ago and so inspired our scene: Feza, MacGregor, Pukwana, Moholo Moholo, Dyani and others who made up the Blue Notes, and in turn Brotherhood of Breath and Zila with whom the impossibly young Bates and Arguelles played 30 years ago now. Robert Wyatt, who was deeply hurt by Feza's lonely death, has described this group of musicians as “having a great time in Europe as celebrated jazz musicians but they'd lost their roots… how incredibly unfair”. It would of course be stretching a point to say Bates and Argüelles are also exiles (they'd see themselves as being on an international scene that transcends borders) especially as the saxophonist is back in the big smoke, it's a shade sad Bates can't ply his trade regularly in Blighty. But in the meantime we have Argüelles' joyous rearrangements of music that shines as bright now as it did in the different days of the 1960s. Enjoy, celebrate, and dance in Frankfurt, Cape Town and Frith Street. And never forget.