The Iyer trio bassist Stephan Crump, who released the excellent Rhombal in the autumn, returns to the release fray this time joined on what was an August 2015 studio session by saxist Ingrid Laubrock and Cory Smythe on Planktonic Finales which arrives next month.

Swiss label Intakt are putting it out and will be in the London club spotlight this spring themselves with an extended focus framed around a series of concerts at the Vortex, on paper one of the big avant jazz occasions of the early part of 2017. “Deep down the powerful bass thunders on,” liner note writer Christoph Wagner quips.

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