Here’s a highly ambitious and mostly successful debut album by Jose Gurria, who wrote and arranged the material as well as sat in on drums for this wide ranging collection. His 22-piece “chamber ensemble” includes brass, woodwinds, rhythm, strings and voices, all in a variety of contexts, combinations and moods. At times, as in “Constant Deprivation of Monetary Funds (The Beast)” you get a whirlwind of colliding sounds and moods, with Gavin Templeton/winds and Daniel Rosenbloom/tp searing toward center stage. Areni Agbabian’s charming voice glows like a full moon on the lullaby “Three Kids Music” while time shifts like the sand on “In Your Face” with the leader propelling the band and Christine Tavolucci’s flute shoots across light lightning during her solo. A kinetic “Shuakara” bounces in a myriad of exciting directions just before a haunting “The Fingers” creates a spacious beauty that defies time with Karina Kallas’ voice and Danile Szabo’s piano. The disc closes with an abundance of energy with the reeds on “Aqui” and the almost Mahlerian “Caballo Viejo” that leave you both exhausted and asking for more.