Young German pianist Michael Wollny brings this spirited trio to Ronnie Scott's next week, for the second night of Jazzwise magazine's festival – and to judge by the four-track live bonus CD that accompanies this adventurous new studio session, the band's hard-rocking energies and sophisticated improv and composing skills fuse with intensifying heat. The opening title track occupies that chord-punching territory occasionally linking the band with the Bad Plus and Neil Cowley's group, but however groove-powered Wollny can be, his music always buzzes with variety: Mahler, Berio and Schubert share the tracklist with the group's originals on this eventful set. Bassist Eva Kruse's intricate Metali entwines a long snaking melody repeated at extremes of the register, while Blank has a pounding-heart dancefloor drum sound under a ringing chord-melody. Wollny's jangling harpsichord-like spinet is pitched against hip-hop drums, and stabbed, improv-like pieces share space with tranquil drifters of plucked piano strings and long bowed tones. It's a very imaginative chemistry of patience and eclectically contemporary edginess.