September sees the release of the latest solo project from John McLaughlin bassist Étienne M’Bappé. You can listen to tracks from How Near How Far on Bandcamp at the moment ahead of release.

M’bappé has a new band for this project called the Prophets featuring Christophe Cravéro (acoustic and electric piano), Anthony Jambon (guitars), Clément Janinet (violin), Arno de Casanove (trumpet, flugelhorn), Hervé Gourdikian (tenor saxophone), and Nicholas Viccaro (drums, percussion). 

The music is full of original Mbappé tunes packed with a sense of fiery jazz-rock passion and prodigious craft from one of the world’s great bass guitarists and his talented band.