What goes around... comes around for Lionel Loueke.

The Beninese guitarist’s new album, to be released by Blue Note on 30 October, finds the Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard player reconvening the trio he first came to prominence with a decade ago.

New studio album Gaïa features Loueke in trio mode with bassist Massimo Biolcati and drummer Ferenc Nemeth, players the guitarist first got to know when they were all students at Berklee.

You can listen to ‘Aziza Dance’ from Gaïa, above