The music itself tells us where we are going. In tells us quietly but insistently, in breathy, almost toneless shapes from the trumpet, resonant frictions from the tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, low drones and rhythmic pulses from the contrabass, and a whole orchestra of sounds – not just “time” – from the percussion. Lotus Crash is a marvellous new record from a new jazz imprint, which also has a great deal of history behind it, as well as a desire to move ever forward into the music’s future. Brian Morton