Norwegian keyboardist/composer Bugge Wesseltoft and German computer musician and producer Henrik Schwarz began their partnership back in 2009, and made it plain from the off that none of the early-digital disjuncts between jazz's rhythmic elasticity and the microchip's mathematical austerity were going to apply to them.

They seemed bonded by a shared idiomatic breadth of rare scope, embracing jazz, contemporary-classical, and dance music, alongside the one-touch agility of cutting-edge improvisers. The pair are joined here by a vocal trio on one track and a string quartet on two, but their empathy remains the hot core of the music. The spacious opener 'Woodened Stone' interweaves a looping marimba hook, delicate piano figures, and quiet textural swells, while 'Future Strings' is a computer-concocted brew of big orchestral sonorities building on a nimbly-scurrying minimalist figure, and quietly confiding Berlin singer Kid Be Kid brings an intimate soulfulness redoubled to a choral pleading on 'My First Life'. The string quartet Solistenensemble Kaleidoscop join the duo to shuffle baroque, dance grooves and minimalism on two accounts of 'Duolism', and 'Bastorius' - for the duo and trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky - will steal the show for jazz fans in its infectious merging of rhythmically-sassy Miles-like trumpet phrasing, punchy acoustic-piano comping, and agile digital bass and percussion patterns.

As with all Wesseltoft–Schwarz meetings, the rituals of the dancefloor are never far away, but there's a joyfulness in the way they handle those rituals that's always hard to resist.