Austin Peralta is the latest signee to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, but don’t expect him to be handy with a drum machine or know all about dynamic range compression like many of his label-mates, because Austin is a classically trained jazz pianist who has played with the best – his debut album, recorded at the age of just 17, was called Maiden Voyage (after the Herbie Hancock album) and featured Ron Carter on bass, just like Herbie’s 1965 opus. As a jobbing session musician in LA, Austin’s been drafted in for recordings for Erykah Badu and Shafiq Husayn as well as sitting in with Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra. And if the name sounds familiar, it’s because Austin is the son of Stacey Peralta, pro-skater and director of films such as Dogtown and the Z-Boys and surf documentary Riding Giants. His album for Brainfeeder, called Endless Planets, is due out in February. If you’re a fan of McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock or Ahmad Jamal – and even if you’re not – you’ll have your ears opened up with Endless Planets. Braps to Flying Lotus for sticking his nose out on this album… it’s not every label that has the cojones to release records without obvious commercial appeal.

Here’s the last track off the album feat. the Cinematic Orchestra and Heidi Vogel that you can download using the widget. It’s not quite typical of the album as a whole, but it aint too bad.

Austin Peralta – Epilogue: Renaissance Bubbles by BRAINFEEDER