No surprise, given the title, that Tippett is inspired by Irish folk music in a suite that moves through three movements of three dances each. It's wrapped with a coda which features a moment of almost tear-provoking sentiment (in the best sense of the word) in Julie Tippetts' hushed vocals. As you'd expect, there are moments of crazed free group improvisation, as the dances build (or break down), but Tippett largely sticks to written through passages spiked with instrumental breaks and his ever vigorous keys. There's almost a Mingus-like feel to much of the writing/arranging, as the band are given a frame to rise and fall against in their own group improvs. And how they rise to the occasion! Tippett has brought together a host of largely RCM graduates, and those who contend that conservatoire students can't rip it up like old time jazz graduates of the road may be pleasantly surprised. Well worth the explore, if only for Tippetts' lustrous late entrance.