The 30-so minutes of this album were recorded while the short-lived Anglo-American quartet briefly toured the UK, a project organised by Jim Bashford, who wrote all six compositions here. Opener ‘Chi Meditation and the Don Teen’ references a meditational technique; the closing ‘The Emperor's Three Questions’ suggests Tolstoy in the mix. The aesthetic, though, is structured free jazz, with Bashford's drumming a match for Drew Gress's powerful bass and Liam Noble putting in a star shift on piano. The album begins with a scattering of piano and floaty John O'Gallagher sax. Gress firms up the beat, sax and piano play a unison theme and the quartet slow burn to a peak. ‘Syeung Donteen (36 Clockwise Rotations)’ briefly showcases Noble's scampering two-handed independence while the ‘Long Bridge Principle’ sashays along to a rocking pulse. The longest track, the 10-minute ‘For Ray and the Laughter’, comes near the end. It is a minimalist piece played quietly with acres of space, an emotional lull before a brief single-length burst of calypso-inflected joy built over a four-chord vamp.