(Warp)
The harpist-composer follows her remarkable debut with 10 lush, spacey electro-acoustic tracks featuring guests such as Nubya Garcia

Composer Nala Sinephro’s extraordinary 2021 debut, Space 1.8, was stitched together by the then 22-year-old from multiplayer jams recorded in alignment with lunar cycles, fusing her keyboards and modular synth oscillations with jazz instrumentation – piano, saxophone, percussion and her own harp. Although the Belgian-born, London-based Sinephro balks at the “ambient jazz” label, her intuitive, “medicinal” music’s kinship to spiritual forbears such as Alice Coltrane remained palpable.

This follow-up stays in that same rarefied space but expands outward, involving a stellar array of contemporaries – among them, saxophonists Nubya Garcia and James Mollison (Ezra Collective), Sheila Maurice-Grey (Kokoroko) on flugelhorn and erstwhile Black Midi drummer Morgan Simpson. Although Sinephro’s trademark harp appears on only two tracks, there are arpeggios galore.