KHMER (LP)

Suffused with deep atmosphere, this is a brilliant and seamless melange of musical vocabularies that broadly expand the jazz palette for an intensely expressive ride. This would likely qualify as an experimental effort if it weren't so mature and fully realized. There are other artists incorporating breakbeats, electronica, world, and ambient into a jazz context, but few creating such an atmospheric environment. And in the electronica genre only the best artists achieve the depth of expression almost effortlessly offered here.