The electronica side of Gerald Cleaver - the Detroit jazz drummer icon (on such classic records into the freeness as Nine to Get Ready, New Orbit and Wisława) who is as valid in free-jazz and in hard bop circumstances as here. Certainly the ideal DJ booth situation to encounter In the Wilderness contextually would be after a Kaidi Tatham broken beats type record and maybe before more melodic jazztronica later - the sort of thing Blue Lab Beats so capably fashion. While definitely art music you could easily hear this played over the PA in a pick-your-favourite metropolitan bar lounge/hipster night dreamer bunker.

Cleaver's lines created live at Matt Garrison's Shapeshifter are ''rebuilt'' (remixed in all but name) by Hprizm whose background is hip-hop.

But there isn't any discernible hip-hop language here. It's beyond genre - where Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, left off maybe circa Daxaar with the much missed Steve Reid and melts the imagination appealingly into a space which doesn't feel at all quotidien. Best groove by a country mile is on 'GLP3' - if it were twice, three times as long, it would be twice, three times as good. All about continuum listening overall so immerse yourself in the whole caboodle. Reach out.

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