Esoteric London outfit Les Hommes returns with 11 jazzuous trips on their new longplayer Sì, Così, a plasma-rippling suite of 11 instrumental cuts that includes pulsar-driven groovetronics, folky modalisms in waltz time and dreamvitations to the cine-lounge.

London trio Les Hommes releases new album Sì, Così, where sounds in unusual orbits abound, with deep-space vintage Lowrey organ, euphonic bass clarinet, grooved-out conga, funkified electric piano and sonorific vibraphone.

Founded by organist Rory More, Les Hommes is known for its hypnotic blend of mondo jazz, pseudo-cinematronics, ‘60s Rio batucada and lounge exotica.

In Sì, Così, Rory More re-explores his mid-century Lowrey organ; its oscillators scorched as if on some planetary re-entry. Mellifluous bass clarinet and Arcadian flutes join plangent electric piano and woody, orotund-and-echoing percussion. Resonant vibraphone tranquilly pierces the aural nimbus. The variations-on-a-theme blueprint is there also, this time with a subtle mutation towards the moods of post-‘60s expressions and beyond.

The tone palette, as ever with Les Hommes, is diversified: “Veronique” is quasi spiritualised with thoughts on a modal mood, “Mirage” veers towards Roy Budd, “Sonorissima bay” gently hypnotises with Echoplexing electric piano figures and primitively visceral organ fluctuations, and “Vampo” states its claim to early ‘70s jazzed-out library from Cinecittà. All in all, a tonal and groove farrago of dusty oscillations.