The Kármán Line — the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space — sits 100 kilometres above ground. This album began in a very earthly place: a Japanese jazz kissa in Tokyo, where woodwind maestro Chip Wickham and ATA Records’ bassist Neil Innes fell into conversation about Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, and David Axelrod. Those shared obsessions became seven tracks of deep, gravity-defying spiritual jazz. Wickham’s flute is the album’s primary voice — patient, unhurried, floating above harp and piano. The harp functions less as decoration than as architecture, its glissandi defining the music’s interior space. Low Orbit shifts the weight with brass arrangements channelling Quincy Jones and late Coltrane.
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