There's much to admire in this striking new recording from the Joshua Jaswon Octet. As heard on album opener ‘Maurice’, the octet in full flight packs a joyous punch. Then there's the powerful soloing from Gorodi, Landowski, Doffey and others; the fluency of the writing; the urgent, galvanising lyrics courtesy of poets Rachael Boast, Jackie Kay and Maura Dooley; not to mention the magnificent contribution of Dutch vocalist Anna Serierse.

It's telling to note that Serierse's master's research, which focused on using the voice to blend into an instrumental setting, made particular reference to the great Norma Winstone, and you can certainly hear nods to Winstone in Serierse's approach here. Jaswon, the London-born, Berlin-based sax player, composer and bandleader, employs the full range of textural possibilities which this multinational band offers, from the intimate sound-world of ‘Silent Sea’, lamenting human greed and environmental pollution, and the vibrant, pleasingly fulsome layerings of ‘Extinction’ (“We shut it down! No immigrants, no immigrants. No snivelling- recycling-global-warming nutters.”) to the hypnotically repeating riffs and stop-start interjections of ‘Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide’.