If Erik Satie had thought of it, he'd no doubt have wanted to recast his minimalistic piano piece ‘Gnossienne’ as a semi-bossa guitar solo. As it so happens, the idea appears never to have occurred to the French composer, so it's fallen instead to Swedish six-string man Ulf Wakenius – who spent 11 years in Oscar Peterson's quartet – to perform the transposition on this charming, low-key disc. It's not the only bit of rhythmic or instrumental repurposing he manages either: a gently beautiful, distinctively unanthemic take on Charles Trenet's ‘La Mer’ closes the set. Though it's just Wakenius, un-amped and on his lonesome ownsome, across the 13 tracks, he achieves significant variety in texture and mood by some smart string changes – steel and nylon – not to mention the deployment of a bit of bass too. He travels across times and cultures – re-creating the sound of the Chinese pipa on the contrasty, low-chugging, high-voiced ‘The Dragon’, and of the Hindustan guitar on ‘Hindustan Blues’ – and throws in a dedication to ACT's Siggi Loch in the shape of the fast-talking ‘Esperanto’.