Meraki are a new trio formed in Birmingham and led by pianist Jacky Naylor (winner of the prestigious Dankworth Prize for Composition in 2018). Their music is minimalist and elegant, all strong riffs and choppy rhythmic games with accomplished solos and occasional rock leanings. Some of the tracks on this debut invite comparisons with Tigran Hamasyan, Vijay Iyer and The Bad Plus, and you can hear the influence of Naylor's mentors in the music as well, among them John Taylor, Kit Downes and Gwilym Simcock, whose fingerprints are all over the rising arpeggios and muscular chords that frame the solos on ‘In A Sailing Boat’.

The tracks flit between urgent and contemplative. ‘Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’ opens with flowing piano and a gentle bowed bass melody before tying itself in rhythmic knots, while the opener, 9 Lives’, and a fragile two-part interlude are exercises in economy built around pedal notes and repeated intervals.

They give the music a feeling of insistence, as though it needs to be heard. The power of simplicity: a little goes a long way.