Bahman with an H (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

There's a timelessness to Kinkajous' score of Sam Motazedi's new short film,Bahman with an H. The London-based project – led by Benoit Parmentier and Adrien Cau – has gained a reputation for exploring the outer limits of jazz and electronics, themselves cartographers of an ambient, hard-to-charter cinematic space. But here, their minimalism has never sounded so masterful, with echoes of Jon Hassell and Nala Sinephro.

The 18-minute composition draws from a delicate triad of piano, saxophone and drums, with Parmentier's electronics bedding a fragile psychological topography that's always shifting and unclear. Motazedi's film doesn't centre on an identity crisis, but inhabits a liminal space where perception is porous, and reality a constant reinterpretation. In response, Kinkajous writes music that moves carefully and without resolution. This is a rare kind of film score - one that's both tethered and untethered to the original work, and opens a multitude of new worlds with every listen.