Nala Sinephro

London-based "ambient jazz" ace Nala Sinephro steps up her game on 'Endlessness', playfully zig-zagging around an electrifying continuous arpeggio over ten cosmically interlinked tracks assembling decades of spiritual jazz echoing down the line. Fully transcendent material - essential listening for fans of Alice Coltrane, Jon Hassell, Sun Ra, Sons of Kemet, Dorothy Ashby, Laraaji.

It's Sinephro's boundless ambition that bubbles to the surface on 'Endlessness'. She was ever so subtly bold on her debut 'Space 1.8', sensing out a connection between ecstatic ambient music and contemporary jazz that unfolded with gentle, measured charm. Here, she lets her imagination run wild, weaving her historical narrative with vivid, lively threads from across the musical spectrum. Jazz, specifically the spiritual strain that Coltrane, Sanders et al cultivated in the '60s, forms the album's musical backbone, and Sinephro jumps off from that point, infusing familiar tempos with lush modular electronics, uncompromising angular rhythms and sparkling orchestral flourishes. Like Sun Ra's most mischievous work, it's music that betrays a voracious appetite for hierarchy-free admiration - Sinephro is clearly a literate listener, and her passion for sounds as they stretch across borders is palpable from the beginning. Remarkable music.