The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless wonder.

Despite the surface eclecticism, Shibe’s unique approach to the electric guitar – one based as much on exploring atemporal textures as on finding the vox humana, rather than the diabolus, in musica – binds together these pieces.

There is an art to putting together an effective programme that not every musician has mastered and many would be better off sticking to more traditional formulas. When a musician gets the formula right, as Shibe does on this new recital disc, the results transcend the individual pieces included to create almost a new work. In this instance, they add up to a vision which is Shibe’s.

Featuring music by composers including Hildegard von Bingen, Chick Corea and Meredith Monk, Shibe's self-described 'emporium of curiosities' may look like an odd assortment on paper, but in practice it all hangs together beautifully: as on his rather more orthodox Camino last summer, the Scottish guitarist displays an astonishing capacity for finding beauty in stillness, with the sequence of three works by Moondog the gently beating heart of the programme.

Here’s another bonkers-at-first-glance, brilliantly curated album from the guitarist Sean Shibe...A lot of the music is meditative. Some of it skirts perilously close to chill-out, or would do if Shibe let it: instead, whenever we might be lulled into inactive listening Shibe provides something subversive...You won’t know what’s hit you.