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1LP Vinyl – IARC-0081

UK jazz is flourishing right now, and alto player/bandleader Cassie Kinoshi's at the front and center of the renaissance. After being nominated for a Mercury Prize with 2019's 'Driftglass', she decided to expand the scope on 'gratitude', bringing in help from NikNak, who she ran into at Marsden Jazz Festival in 2019, plus the estimable LCO. This widens the seed. sound considerably – the dextrous modern jazz flavor they exhibited on their last album is still there, but fleshed out by lavish orchestral flourishes and subtle electronic squeaks and squelches. On the flip, 'Smoke in the Sun', a recording made at London's Total Refreshment Centre in 2021 finishes things off.