Based in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, Dark Circles Recordings has rediscovered and is reissuing an album originally recorded and released in 2008 by Dog Soup, a then London-based quartet that played a handful of gigs and recorded just one exemplary album before, seemingly, disappearing. Fragments, that album, is a crucial chapter in the British jazz story that can now be told again. The brainchild of trumpeter and composer Robbie Robson, Dog Soup was briefly part of the Loop Collective, a group of musicians founded in London in 2005. Dog Soup cut one mesmerising album of rhythmic shapes and melodic colours that still sounds fresh, exciting and dynamic 17 years later. An intoxicating mix of composed and freely improvised playing, Fragments keeps the listener guessing just where the music is coming from. Released in 2008, Fragments just preceded the revitalised British jazz scene and slipped under the radar of even the most ardent aficionados, becoming a lost classic-until Dark Circles Recordings recognised its brilliance 17 years later and persuaded Robson to reissue it.[info sheet from distr.]