Forged in Leeds, living in London and recording in rural Oxfordshire, Nubiyan Twist embody British jazz’s current outward perspective. Jazz is therefore just one ingredient in this second album, which ranges stylistically across Africa and explores insidiously oppressive mind-sets, while maintaining danceable momentum. Tony Allen and Mulatu Astatke confirm the Twist are legit on a track each. Astatke adds spooky Ethio-jazz texture to the smoky dub swirl of ‘Addis to London’, which stands sonically apart even as it blends with the general cosmopolitan intent. Ghanaian-raised Sheffield singer Kweku Sakey, aka K.O.G., was turned towards Afro-fusion by Nubiyan Twist leader Tom Excell, and returns the favour to punch the brass-heavy ‘Basa Basa’ home. Singer Nubiya Brandon is the lyrical ace, as on Jungle Run’s oldest track, ‘Permission’, an intricate reverie on black female self-loathing overnear-psychedelic, tough future-dancehall. The jazz-funk grooves sometimes soften, but this record builds a wide, convincing world.