'Nomad' from Andrew McCormack's Solo (Ubuntu) due in June shows a different side of the pianist-composer's personality.

The folky melody that initially emerges is like a rural dance dressed in modernist colours, the harmonies and aesthetic over the first few minutes leaning towards Bartók's 'Suite for Piano'.

Known for his mainstream jazz work with Kyle Eastwood and more avant garde incarnation playing duos with Jason Yarde, this track locates his approach firmly on the avant side.

The scope of the piece changes after a couple of minutes and the lapping expansiveness takes on more of an impressionist Debussy-like reverie (towards the 3 minute mark).

Can this piece actually be seen more within a classical frame? Perhaps. But not quite. And the album leans overtly to jazz with such inclusions as a version of Thelonious Monk's 'We See'.

Dull genre considerations aside, and to some anyway solo piano albums are a genre on to themselves, regardless, the quiet detailed calm the pianist conjures up towards the four-minute mark works without any baggage of what it should or should not resemble.

New to McCormack? Head back firstly to 2006's Telescope on the now inactive Dune label, all that label's physical formats are hard-to-find collector's items, you can hear there where next generation pianists such as Joe Armon-Jones were first coming from.

Andrew McCormack, above. Press shot