Dressing and posing on her album covers like something from a graphic comic, but playing like Blue Note period Herbie Hancock, Connie Han brings vintage sounds with modern ideas to the fore with her team of Bill Wysaske/dr, John Patitucci/b, Katisse Buckingham/wwinds and Rich Perry/ts in a clever mix and match of moods. She even ventures into the sounds of the Fender Rhodes on a soulful and pretty “Prima Materia” with Buckingham’s flute and piccolo and the trio jam of “Young Moon” , with Patitucci digging in deep on his electric bass for “Enki’s Gift”. On the acoustic side, Han does a gorgeous duet with Perry on the intimate “Vesica Piscis” , taps into her inner Bud Powell for a bopping trio of “The Gallu Pursuit” and is Tyner-modal on “Wind Rose Goddess”. There’s an intricate post bopping trio of “Ereshkigal of the Underworld” and a man a mano meeting with Wysaske on “Gilgamesh and the Celestial Bull” with the drummer even getting a solo outing on “Ninshubur’s Lament”. In case you didn’t know, Inanna was the legendary Mesopotamian goddess of war, love and fertility, with each of these songs hinting at various stories of the time. A mighty Aphrodite!