Very few albums begin so convincingly and are immediately engaging. Zukunft [Future] the title piece of Kemaca Kinetic's debut, first feels its way carefully, stumbling towards a rhythm, then you are automatically drawn in - and the band has your attention.

The piece begins to pulsate. Fraying rhythmic patterns repeatedly create an undertow, as is so often the case with the music of this trio, alternating between the delicate and the insistent.

The album continues in just such a concentrated and compacted way: Dapo weaves spherical guitar arcs, over which a beat reacts with increasing vehemence and speed.

A melodious high-speed bass is added and transforms the piece into a groove monster - adding yet another level by sliding into quiet, tentative passages.

All of this happens within the context of jazz traditions: the Danish trio plays rock-heavy fusion jazz.

It is a strand of jazz history which is currently rarely prominent in jazz developments, but here, somewhat magically, seems fresh again without being historicised.

The album is called ZUKUNFT [FUTURE] and that is appropriate, because this music is both radically immediate and also ventures into new territory.

It is astonishing that these highly compressed pieces always sound off-the-cuff. This works with the ballad-like track Esthernity, as well as in the almost ten-minute long 1,000 Days which rocks and brings the house down.