The shadow of 1970s IndoJazzFusion falls over a wide spectrum of music whether jazz, classical music or shaped for the dance floor and any number of commercial hybrids feeding into even more disciplines across the performing arts. And tabla titan Trilok Gurtu, whether performing with icons of jazz such as Jan Garbarek and John McLaughlin or releasing dozens of albums down the years under his name, has already left considerable entries in the dictionary or should that be dictionaries of the music. One Thought Away is typically accessible with an incendiary furious driving style to it on the one hand and a thoughtful spiritual side on the other.

From Usfret in the late-1980s through to the excellent God is a Drummer in 2020 there is an incredible span of music already in the can. And here it's yet a further inexhaustible extension of the elemental philosophy that the Mumbai born Gurtu, 71, learnt from his singer mother.

Looser than ever this studio affair that finds Gurtu improvising on not just tabla but across a spread of instruments notably utilising his Tony Williams-style drumming approach and that finds him make use even of a customised string/percussion instrument called the Basic 1 in the search for new sounds.

Dominated by the 'No Fear' Suite tracks the album is co-produced with Carlo Cantini and Robert Miles. Miles worked with Gurtu almost 20 years ago on the sparkling Miles_Gurtu and the magic created in those days is ignited in spectacular fashion once again in a voyage through the discipline of Konnakol and beyond as if Gurtu was playing music for the very first time.

'So Happy' is streaming ahead of release. The full album is out on 3 March