With every record on ECM Dominic Miller seems to go deeper into his own world. And on this 2021 recorded Manfred Eicher produced studio album that sense of individuality coated in a Mediterranean dreaminess is the gateway to everything that unfolds. But there's an intensity too say on 'Lone Waltz' when pianist Jacob Karlzon adds a heat and the crescendo sweeps us into a new intimacy. A very different in atmosphere feeling and listening experience is engendered to say what you'll hear on a record by another consummate guitarist such as Julian Lage or indeed Miller's extensive work with Sting you don't, in other words, acquire swinging freebop or dive into the singalong heart of a rock anthem - not by a long chalk.

But you do get detailed development of the themes as they often veer into more interesting waters out of the safe harbour of their pristine melodicism. In Miller's soliloquising and interior mood music he sometimes has a lot in common with a world Andrés Segovia painted so luminously or a Joaquín Rodrigo classical work in its more starker disciplined moments. Bassist Nicolas Fiszman and drummer Ziv Ravitz, whose touch when it comes on 'Clandestin' is just right, prove a gruff contrast to the tracery of the rhapsoding piano lines that so naturally dance around. Out on 21 April

The Dominic Miller band play London's 606 jazz club in Chelsea on 15 and 16 May. Click for tickets

Dominic Miller, photo: Christoph Bombart/ECM

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