LA-based vocalist Dwight Trible's career traverses collaborations with Kenny Garrett, Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders on the one hand, J Dilla and Kamasi Washington on the other. Recorded at Sunset Studios, Mothership presents 12 impressively varied slices of spiritual soul-jazz, framed by the coruscating, rimshot-led Horace Tapscott/Linda Hill-penned title-track and an outer-spacious ‘Some Other Time’, with powerful soloing by Washington and violist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson respectively. As heard on majestic readings of ‘Brother Where Are You?’ by the great Oscar Brown Jr., the traditional ‘Spiritual’ (based on ‘Standing In The Need Of Prayer’) and Donny Hathaway's ‘Thank You Master’, there's an incandescent, almost yearning quality to Trible's voice, an instrument which is underpinned by such a fabulously rich, all-enveloping timbre that you feel you can almost step inside it and explode its contours. There are some surprises too, not least a pulsating, trippy ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, the groundbreaking final track from The Beatles' Revolver. Released on standard vinyl, CD, and digital, the album is also available as a limited 2LP edition of 500 copies. Trible's days as a cult underground artist are possibly numbered.