Young warrior, old lion: it's the marketing manager's dream, And the music ain't bad either, What a pleasure to see Mullen, after the challenges he's recently faced, recording and indeed gigging again, And in Remon, another graduate of the Tomorrow's Warriors development scheme (where's Gary Crosby's knighthood?) Mullen has an intriguing, youthful foil.

Indeed Remon, as the billing suggests, is more to the fore, in both having three compositions of his own and in his taking the lead on several of the tracks. But essentially this is a duo album, each player sharing a similar clean tonality, each, as only guitar duos can, swapping seamlessly between comping, chordal counterpoint, nailing the melody or sailing away on an improvisation.

‘Step Lightly’, the Joe Henderson song, could have been the album's title: there's a light touch, a gentle hand on the tiller here as there is on the undiluted pleasure of ‘East of the Sun’ or ‘Like Someone in Love’, They all enchant but never slip into sentimentality, Indeed, there's a darkness, a political edge to Remon's ‘Jaffna’ which the composer could explore more fully in future.