Rich Johnson - Up the Turret Mil (Loyal Label) From trumpet, samples, piano, acoustic guitar and laptop, Rich Johnson has produced his first solo recording after a lucrative career. Liberal helpings of introspective ambient space are encroached with free and cool jazz, folk, musique concrete and occasional low-key glitchy techno. The calm, serene and organic nature, of the majority of the CD, is augmented, not overshadowed by the avant-garde free-jazz intrusions ("Ignite a Noise" reminiscent of Basil Kirchin's Quantum-era call and response brass birdcalls). It's title track serves as a late attempt to shake up the proceedings but following it's brief excursion into tech noise it lulls to it's minimal and familiar pace. Will F. Next