Nils Frahm
Music For The Motion Picture Victoria

Bristol experimental jazz collective Ishmael Ensemble reveal their expansive new album "Visions Of Light". The follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2019 debut "A State of Flow", praised by the likes of The Guardian, MOJO, The WIRE and tastemakers across BBC 6Music, this sophomore record sees the group reimagine what an ‘ensemble’ can do: expanding into a shifting collective, where human relationships between artists underpin far-ranging, stunningly ambitious and emotionally-heavyweight compositions.

"We drew a map of the road trip together. A green line from Bambi across the Danube to the Carpathians. A fairy tale animated in technicolour, unfolding in slow motion. All protagonists hovered slightly off the ground. The soundtrack of Transcarpathia and a whirling unresolved hum. A disembodied camera flies thru a bartak forest; it sinks down on a nest of wild mugwort..."