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Daniel Inzani: Selected Worlds | John Lewis's contemporary album of the month
In his first major solo release, the pianist and composer explores the very different sides to his musical personality across three contrasting but connected LPs
Featuring a jazz-friendly ensemble, disc three, Play, draws together the most compelling strands of recent British jazz: the dancefloor-friendly Afrobeats of Ezra Collective and Kokoroko; the punky rambunctiousness of Acoustic Ladyland; the ecstatic spiritualism of Matthew Halsall; the wonky pentatonic Ethiopian scales used by bands such as the Heliocentrics. The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada) sees him making his effects-laden saxophone sound like a spectral church organ, fog horn, a drum kit or wounded ox, moving from circular-breathing minimalist arpeggios to ecstatic freakouts. Ibukun Sunday is a Nigerian viola player whose album Harmony/Balance (Phantom Limb) is a piece of meditative, drone-based music that sometimes flirts with dystopian horror, but always resolves itself, throbbing and glistening with a quietly ecstatic joy.
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