Performing on Saturday 4 April.

New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia has made waves in recent years as a daring hybrid producer, finding a visceral common ground between ecstatic avant-jazz, mournful soul, tangled strings and building-shaking electronics. His new EP, Standards Vol. 1, transforms cornerstone works by Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman and more into immersive, otherworldly realms of sound that are uniquely Rafiq Bhatia. Working with a cast of traditional jazz’s most beloved musicians including the three-time GRAMMY-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bhatia implements dreamlike and sometimes volatile electronic techniques to recast classic repertoire as a window into the darkness underlying ordinary American life. The results are at once familiar and strange from the Son Lux band member and disruptive US musical force.