Music can involve extreme compression: a swift succession of ideas expressed across a tight bandwidth only, leaving no space to breathe until the sound stops. And then music can involve a kind of infinite opening out, or expansion into the infinite. ECM tends to deal in the latter kind of work, and the Shinya Fukumori Trio's debut on the label is true to ECM's aesthetic principles, floating delicate ideas into a vast, empty, quietly optimistic landscape. The result is some very pleasurable and, importantly, disciplined blue-sky trilling: the tension is crucial to the overall effect. The melodies are pretty and poised, with French tenorist Matthieu Bordenave weaving fragile flights of fancy over German pianist Walter Lang's clean lines and Japanese leader Shinya Fukumori's intensely textured percussion work. Not that the trio are incapable of greater density and increased velocity of travel: the closing section of ‘The Light Suite’ suddenly turns up the intensity to great effect, for instance. But for the most part this is a disc of sumptuous, sparse lyricism.