‘Eight Durations’ is cavernous and cacophonous. The final throws of ‘Duration 8’ are glorious in their organised disarray. Pino is just going at it on drums. Abrams is delivering measured saxophone line after line. The bass is consistent but vanishes due to the bedlam all around and Andrew Joron’s theremin appears to be missing in action. I don’t doubt it’s there but it is hard to pick out once the machine is up and running. This album is a dream. A very wonky and tumultuous dream, but a dream none the less.

M-KAT Ensemble first lulls you into a false sense of security by building from a very slow, sparse beginning and, like the proverbial frog being boiled, you eventually wind up in a crazy mix of high intensity jazz without really knowing quite how you got there. But you’re glad that you did…This band builds its real-time compositions into structures that resemble the termite towers of Namibia or chemical clocks on the far side of the Moon.