[Ahmed] -the quartet of Pat Thomas, Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright- make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history. Across the 2 LPs which make up 'Super Majnoon [East Meets West]' the group work and rework the music of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive record where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling.