This Tel Aviv piano trio have found their natural home on EST's label, ACT, as they regularly power up rock dynamics, not least on a breakneck cover of Nirvana's ‘Breed’. ‘The Orphan Boy Who Wanted to be King’ is as proggy as its title, while ‘The Emperor's New Clothes’ alternates wrecking-ball swing with delicate unease. ‘David Bowie Contemplating Art and Death in a Café in Berlin’ finds a stylistic home of Shalosh's own, where Middle Eastern mournfulness meets Western classical expression and pop culture in a sort of kaddish for Bowie, a rock icon with a jazz sense of infinite mutability. Childhood friends Assayag and Stern have played together in New York, perhaps helping the breezy clubland swing of ‘Nina’, and nocturnal mellowness of ‘Quiet Corner’, all brushed drums and bluesy, almost blowsy piano touch. ‘The Last 8th of April’ – Holocaust Remembrance Day – concludes Broken Balance (bar a palate- cleansing extra track). Elegiac piano plods grimly on through a building storm of visceral heaviness, basses twanging thickly and goblin voices rising; rather than impossibly representing the Shoah, the growing threat of its forgetting perhaps animates this glowering conclusion. These cosmopolitan Israelis are now exemplars of ACT's European jazz ideals.