Look On The Bright Side SRAR0007ME performing

performing

grime-era London energy and deep spiritual warmth all collide across seven tracks that still sound wonderfully alive a decade later

the Latin-tinged drive of ‘Something Out of Nothing’

multicoloured patterns onto a screen suspended above performers on stage

And that really does have an effect on the listening experience of this because it is such sparse and clean and just wonderfully clear music

Look On The Bright Side SRAR0007ME performingMalcolm Strachan's third solo album finds the Scottish trumpeter at his most open and assured. Where his debut About Time channelled classic Blue Note and the sophomore follow up Point of No Return leaned into CTI era grooves, Look On The Bright Side casts its net wider and captures soul jazz, Latin, Afrobeat and cinematic 70s sounds then weaves them together with real fluency. The Haggis Horns founding member, whose CV spans work with Amy Winehouse,