LA-based Mark de Clive is a regular figure at local venues like the Blue Whale, bringing fresh music and sounds with his team of Josh Johnson/as-fl, Teodrose Avery/ts, Tylana Enomoto/vi, Brandon Eugene Owens/b, Carlos Nino/perc and Brandon Combs/dr. The ten songs here find him in a rich and water color’d pastel mood, with the horns creating gentle Asian harmonies on soft tunes like “O-Edo Nihonbashi” and the pretty “Bushido II” with Clive-Lowe’s piano forming Bodhi tree shadows. Things get a bit more heated on the rhythmic “Mirai no Rekishi” with some hip hopping beats and the synth work brings “The Silk Road” to a dramatic climax. Welcome wonders with excellent brush strokes.