Chicagoan percussionist Adam Rudolph has been a pioneer of ethnomusicological exploration since the 1970s. A former student of, and collaborator with, the great cultural magpie Don Cherry, he co-founded The Mandingo Griot Society alongside drummer Hamid Drake and Gambian Kora player Jali Foday Musa Suso in 1978, a trio devoted to exploring a similar notion of jazz-inflected world-fusion to that suggested by Codona, Cherry's trio with sitar player Colin Walcott and Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos. Go: Organic Orchestra is Rudolph's ever-changing ensemble currently pushing that idea forward – and this collaboration with the adventurous, multi-cultural collective Brooklyn Raga Massive is an absolutely inspired pairing. For the last seven years, BRM have been fusing Indian classical music, US minimalism and deep jazz to stunning effect. Moreover, both units share an abiding belief in the power of music to transcend cultural boundaries and reach deep spiritual regions. For irrefutable proof, look no further than the opening track on this double-disc set, ‘Mousa Azure,’ which effortlessly melds thick tanpura drone, soaring bansuri flute and Sufi devotional qawwali vocals with trance-inducing Moroccan Gnawa driven by thrumming guembri and the chattering click-clack of castanet-like krakebs. There's a mysterious sense of scale and antiquity to the whole date, even when it veers into the murky, Bitches Brew-style electric jazz, as on ‘Ascent To Now,’ which combines Indian instrumentation with billowing horn charts and driving rim-shot momentum. It's a stunning journey into the unknown.