​​Ishmael Ensemble ​ 

Tipping out of the shackles of their New UK Jazz confines, Ishmael Ensemble have brought in a wealth of spiritual, electronic, and, whisper it, dancefloor-baiting sounds to their ever-invigorating palette - it's a shift that might surprise long time fans but will no doubt endear them ever more after repeated listens.

With their live-instrumentation-meets-electronic merging of styles, the group were always broader than the ‘new UK jazz’ tag which they were often given but, here, their scope and boundary-pushing ambition is more evident than ever before. Still maintaining a blend of spiritual jazz, dub, experimental and electronic soundscapes, here those elements are vigorously whipped-up into huge cyclones of sound, more song-based and accessible than before, but also almost psychedelic in its euphonic blend of colours, textures, facets and moods.