Goran Kajfeš is an award-winning Swedish trumpet player whose many groups and projects have kept him very busy over the years. A mainstay in the Swedish jazz scene over the past few decades, he’s been a member of Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, Oddjob, Nacka Forum, Pan-Scan Ensemble, Angles 9, La La Lars, and Fire! Orchestra. He’s released several albums as a leader, and the latest is with his Tropiques group.

Tell Us is the third Tropiques album, containing three long tracks of grooves that approaches psychedelia at times. Long, slow builds take the listener on a sonic journey, grounded by rhythmic piano and carried aloft by strings, synths and Kajfeš’ evocative playing. With a style that has been christened “hypno jazz,” this quartet (Alexander Zethson: piano, organ, synthesizer, Johan Berthling: acoustic bass, and Johan Holmegard (drums) and guests Leo Svensson Sander on cello and violinist Josefin Runsteen is rather magnificent.

All Music cites influences of Alice Coltrane (particularly in string charts), Miles Davis, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Tangerine Dream, while Forced Exposure notes, “This music will take its time, but it'll also create new dimensions with each second as it unfolds.” I think this is going to end up on my Best of list this year.