Over the last few years, musician- producers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad have forged a distinctive identity for their Jazz Is Dead label, collaborating with a pantheon of jazz heavyweights including Roy Ayers and Gary Bartz, and revisiting these artist's 1970s glory years, when they were cutting the kind of classic jazz-funk tracks that Muhammad's previous outfit, hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, so assiduously sampled.

Hooking up with the godfather of cosmic funk, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith seems like an inevitability, and this date unashamedly strives to recreate the psychedelic grooves of albums such as 1975's Expansions. Opening track ‘Love Brings Happiness’ sets it up with a fat vamp draped in choppy wah-wah and searing lead guitar and Loren Oden's vocals a dead-ringer for singer Donald Smith's yearning turns.

Smith is very much in his element on piano and Fender Rhodes, contributing languid ripples and mellow splashes but seems at times somewhat buried in quite a busy mix. A little restraint in the arrangements might have helped, and the drums could definitely do with coming down a notch, both in their volume and their foursquare post-hip hop insistence. But, if it lacks subtlety, there's no shortage of enthusiasm.