The Bahraini-born trumpeter and flugelhornist Yazz Ahmed has real rock credentials playing with Radiohead, These New Puritans and Joan as Policewoman among others, but has also explored in depth her Arabic folk music roots as well as other contexts for her playing, with Tomorrow's Warriors commissions to her name. She brings this and more into her new recording La Saboteuse, the excellent follow up to her impressive quartet debut Finding My Way Home in 2011. The brief intervallic duos featuring Ahmed's quarter-tonal muezzin call to prayer and vibraphonist Lewis Wright set the mood effectively. Folk song melodies merge with looping motifs on ‘El-Emadi’ that evokes something of The Intercontinentals era Bill Frisell with Swedish guest guitarist Samuel Hällkvist. Elsewhere ‘Bloom’ stands out for its catchy looping counterpoint of Ahmed's trumpet and bass clarinet courtesy of guest contributor Shabaka Hutchings; the sleepy title track echoes something of Siesta-era Miles while ‘Organ External’ sounds like a jam band take on The Claudia Quintet. Yazz Ahmed has the balance just right on this atmospheric yet energetic, melody-driven new album.