NALA SINEPHRO

Space 1.8 (WARP)

If the London jazz scene’s output slowed a little in 2021 – inevitable, perhaps, given the challenges that prevented collective improv sessions in the same room – innovative new thinkers now came to the fore. None were more creative than Nala Sinephro, a Caribbean Belgian harpist-cumelectronic composer who reconfigured live sessions into dreamy processed ambience. Like Jon Hassell and Brian Eno going to work on an Alice Coltrane jam, very loosely. Standout track: Space 4