There’s a lovely heft to lowering fresh vinyl to the deck. And especially so with this lovingly restored, high-quality pressing of Neil Ardley’s famous cosmic saga. Harmony of the Spheres is a concept (heh, this is the 1970s dude!) based on Ardley’s fascination with ancient Greek notions that the planets emitted music that reflected the harmony of creation. The results are redolent of that decade, down to the Storm Thorgerson (he of Pink Floyd cover fame) sleeve art with its cowled watcher on the shore below a bright bracelet of planets thrown across a night sky. These look scarily prescient of Elon Musk’s chains of satellites that you can now see patrolling our skies.

Also very 1970s is Ardley’s synths use, as employed on ‘Soft Stillness and the Night’, which evoke a cosmic vastness. ‘Glittering Circles’ and ‘Fair Mirage’ likewise bleep and weave their synthetic orbits, with Winstone’s voice resonating with Holst’s ‘Neptune’ and its off-stage ethereal choir. A highlight for many will be Martyn’s guitar. At one phase he’s all ‘Glistening Glyndebourne’, others yawing through his echoplex-y rack. Unfortunately, he raves across the rather leaden bass/drums combo which Ardley employs throughout.

It would have been fab to hear more of Coe and Thompson, who swap soprano licks on ‘Leap in the Dark’. But Harmony of the Spheres still offers spacy delights, not least consummate sleeve notes from our beloved Jazzwise overlord Mr Flynn.