No surprise there’s a chamber music aura to this gorgeously intimate recording. For the second time (Michael Wollny and Joachim Kuhn profited before) ACT and the Chateau Palmer have collaborated. Instead of using a studio, the Trio recorded in a panelled room, looking out over the chateau’s grounds, cloistered within a palatial space. No wonder the first track is called ‘Le Calme au Chateau’.

To play with such delicacy yet authority, to listen so hard yet play so soft are all qualities each of these artists possess. But that doesn’t mean they’ll gel as a new unit. Yet to hear them on ‘L’Epoque’, where In a Silent Way meets the epic 11th-century chanson de geste, 'The Song of Roland', with a Moorish edge for good measure, is the epitome of the old cliché that less is most definitely more.

Danielsson is the principal composer, but the covers reveal the breadth of their listening. Singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith’s ‘Gold in Them Hills’ has a modern troubadour joining the tradition of medieval songsmiths, lyrically romantic but grounded in a world of tough realities. By contrast the trio take Ellington’s ‘Mood Indigo’ back to gallic café life, where you half expect Josephine Baker to drop in. More, please.