Troll Peninsula sessions in Iceland at the Flóki spawned the recordings

Jack Magnet Science feat. Matthew Garrison and Peter Erskine pictured: l-r: back row drummer-percussionist Sigtryggur Baldursson; drummer-percussionist Einar Scheving; keyboardists Jack Magnet (aka Jakob Frímann Magnússon) and Eythor Gunnarsson. Front row, l-r: drummer Peter Erskine and bass guitarist Matthew Garrison

Featuring stellar guests Matthew Garrison on bass guitar - son of legendary John Coltrane Quartet bassist Jimmy Garrison - and Weather Report legend drummer Peter Erskine, Icelandic band Jack Magnet Science's Future Forecast has been on constant rotation on marlbank this week ahead of release as priority listening.

A jazz-rock rollercoaster of a ride, the first single from the upcoming album recorded in late 2022 honed over 3 days of improvising split over 72 tracks that provided the basis for the 7 originals used - is 'Wild Card' out today. A studio album recorded at Flóki Studios, a studio named after a Viking who legend has it followed the path of a raven to discover Iceland more than a millennium ago, is located in the north of Iceland on the Troll Peninsula and Flóki issues the album on the studio's own label.

Band members were plucked from Icelandic band Stuðmenn led by keyboardist Magnet and include percussionists Siggi Baldursson (formerly of The Sugarcubes who helped catapult Björk to global fame) and Einar Scheving. Phil Doyle, a widely toured US saxophone player who has taught at music school in Iceland, and keyboardist Gunnarsson (pictured above in the core group shot, who was co-founder of the famed Icelandic band Mezzoforte) are also in the personnel as are saxophonist Jóel Pálsson, guitarist Guðmundur Pétursson, trumpet-flugel player Ari Bragi Kárason and harmonica player Thorleifur Gaukur Davíðsson. Vocals are contributed by Ragga, Disa and Egill Olafsson.

Garrison's In Movement (2016) with John Coltrane's saxophonist son Ravi Coltrane and another Jack - the great Jack DeJohnette no less who was on such classics as Forest Flower with Charles Lloyd, Bitches Brew with Miles Davis and Standards Volume 1 with his fellow Lloydian Keith Jarrett - proved an enduring thrill. And Garrison less than a decade on sounds great on what is a very different record in Future Forecast bristling with trademark Erskinian touches that if you are into the Brew and Weather Report circa The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 you will certainly feel at ease with the Jack Magnet approach. Their self described ''hitherto unknown merger of frequencies and impulses'' makes consummate sense.