Master Oogway’s last – and live – album, Happy Village, shared billing with guest flautist Henriette Eilertsen, together creating a rough sense of community during an exploratory Oslo residency. This studio follow-up is, if anything, more anarchically free, as with the vortex swirl of the accurately titled ‘Cacophonic Bar Jumping’, where sax melodies swim through the mix like distant flotsam. ‘Palette Cleanser’, though it starts with Håvard Nordberg Funderud’s shivering Spanish guitar, similarly centres on Lauritz Heitmann Skeidsvoll’s burrowing tenor, which accrues a filthy buzz like a bee’s furred skin. ‘Think Happy Thoughts’ is almost a ballad as Skeidsvoll’s tone turns reflective, wailing with a Near Eastern, klezmer edge.

Mostly, though, Master Oogway seem engaged in high-stakes woodshedding, challenging each other on hairpin turns designed to end in crashing collision, as with ‘Three Parallel Endings’’s squelching pile-up. Tracks are shaped in the moment, clamorous and intense. ‘Oogway’s Time To Shine’ is a jazz-rock odyssey, the studio allowing layered saxes and luminescent sparks of guitar. ‘A Lot of Music About Everything’ is a worthy title track, as wheezing breaths echo within a cavernous sax which develops a bestial tone and mournful melody, seeming to herald a Viking voyage into alien, inclement wastes. Master Oogway stand apart from the Norwegian scene – headed by the likes of Motorpsycho and Elephant9 – which uses similar instrumentation to improvise grand psychedelic onslaughts. This quartet are closer to free jazz, playing further out, their obscure destinations staying just in sight.