There’s a low-lying restlessness about Mara Rosenbloom’s piano playing: Each moment, for her, seems best understood as something to escape from. But with her new trio, Flyways, featuring the vocalist and percussionist Anaïs Maviel and the bassist Rashaan Carter, Rosenbloom leaves loads of empty space; she’s inviting you to relax inside her restlessness. The first thing — and ultimately, one of the only things — that you hear on “Dream of a Common Language — Irruption,” from Flyways’ debut album, is a repeated, five-note pattern in the left hand. Maviel and Carter soon join in, each taking things one note at a time. “No one lives in this room/Without confronting the whiteness of the wall,” Maviel sings, sounding cool but tender. Eventually, as the song continues, Rosenbloom starts to adorn that low pattern with chords in the right hand; eventually it disappears completely, as a cloud of electronics fills the air around her. The space feels finally welcoming as Maviel sings in long, slowly fading tones: “The true nature: the drive to connect.” GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

Noveller, ‘Effektology’