Baby-faced drum demon Chris Corsano has dropped some scorching duets with fire-breathing saxophonists like Paul Flaherty and Wally Shoup, but this team up with the young Danish altoist Mette Rasmussen inhabits more liminal territory. It’s certainly not short of abrasive tones and pulsing kick drum action, but both Rasmussen and Corsano temper their attack with a strong sense of dynamics and texture. You may have heard Rasmussen with Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra. Her playing taps into the European free music continuum, with strong echoes of the American post-bop tradition. She moves from searing arcs of pinched tone and puckering reed effects to lyrical melodic flourishes, all the while maintaining a strong individual identity. Corsano is famed for his use of objects and extended techniques, but here he limits himself to sticks and drums, moving freely around the kit as Rasmussen provides the centrifugal force. A great duo set, with bonus points for such absurdist track titles as the cosmo-domestic Whitmanism of ‘Oh Space Heater! My Space Heater’.