Circle Traps – ‘Fjord’

All we know about Circle Traps is that there’s three of them (we think), two were in London jazz group Portico Quartet, and they’re putting out a record through Subeena’s Opit label at some point.

‘Fjord’, which makes up part of said forthcoming EP, has been on YouTube since November, when Gilles Peterson was also playing it on his Radio 1 show. If mist had a sound, we wager it would be exactly this; its bitter wash only broken up by cross-signals of tape delay and 2step, a fire alarm ringing in the backdrop. Probably sounds like you’ve heard it all before, but you haven’t – this track is wonderful. Now who’s up for a holiday?