Joy!Guru

‘Here Comes the Moon King’, the 12-minute opening track, sets the mood. It begins with a prelude of tingling stillness; the slide guitar high in the night sky, shimmering like a firefly. After four minutes, the plucked bass takes us into a faster composition and we're back in the mortal world. Apart from a Hawaiian moment, most of the seven tracks here have a nighttime flavour for the obvious reason they were recorded in an all-night session in a studio at Polish Radio.

The 14-minute ‘Midnight Raga’ once again brings us calm, delicacy and magic, with notes that slide, bend and go down to the sublime lower registers of Bhattacharya's chaturangui guitar. It's followed by ‘Chaturangui Express’, which is a four-minute shooting star flashing through the heavens. It's spectacular in its own right, but as is so often the case with Indian music, it's even better as part of the bigger picture, following on from the midnight calm.

Bhattacharya is joined by two Polish musicians, Wojtek Traczyk on double bass and Hubert Zemler on drums, and they respond sympathetically to Bhattacharya's music and bring a couple of compositions by Traczyk. It was a clearly a thrilling and productive night's work.