Malija: Instinct review – spontaneous, conversational acoustic flows

(Edition)With their 2015 debut album The Day I Had Everything, Malija staked a big claim to being one of the front-running European acoustic trios with as much understanding of receptive listening as conversational playing. Polar Bear and Loose Tubes saxophonist Mark Lockheart remains the foreground voice, pianist Liam Noble and double bassist Jasper Høiby the attentive contrapuntal shadows who also stretch the music improvisationally way beyond its economically composed, scene-shifting h