I'm still catching up with spritual jazz saxophonist-flautist Muriel Grossmann's back catalogue. But each new dipping into the Ibiza based Paris born Austrian's work makes that journeying more urgent. She reminds me a little of Tori Freestone or Nat Birchall in the UK both these players like her clearly devoted to tapping the kind of spiritual journey that John Coltrame, Pharoah Sanders and Albert Ayler established in the 1960s. 'Absolute Truth' to begin has a firm groove that has more of a secular if you like commercial hard bop feel to the kind of material she later plays here. Radomir Milojkovic on guitar, Abel Boquera on Hammond B3 organ and Uros Stamenkovic playing drums join Grossmann on the Buddhism inspired Devotion and an empathetic unit it proves. There's a lot of powerful playing here from Grossmann, the material is strong and the saxist certainly does not lay back and folds in so much beyond the spiritual sphere. The soul jazz touches from Boquera, even if they perhaps dilute the more hardcore spiritual focus of the album a little, add a new interesting layer. SG