Japanese friendly lounge jazz is the style surfacing here from Glaswegian act Ari Tsugi. Featuring among the guests are hot property Corto.Alto trombone auteur Liam Shortall and Ari Tsugi labelmate Azamiah's India Blue. The core Ari Tsugi trio has Clement Gaud, Joe Weisberg and Mashu Harada in the vanguard. Additional keys are rustled up by Angus MacDonald. Purist jazz fans might be a bit sniffy about buying into its luxuriant vamps and all-the-time-in-the-world jazz psychedelia. Pity. Ineluctably it's tastefully enough pieced together. And we liked it best when the whole malarkey goes a bit more bats on 'Natsu' while leveraging its dreamy wooziness characteristically weightlessly elsewhere.
'Haru' and 'Hold Me Tight' drawn from Simultaneity which is out on 5 July are streaming
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