IT'S clear something different is going on when the first sounds you hear are words spoken by newsreader Moira Stuart.

She provides the narration to this fantastically ambitious project from the sax player cum rapper. Kinch is, primarily, an exciting young jazz musician, already feted for his debut, Conversations With The Unseen.

But he also shines as a more literate sort of rapper, here cleverly capturing three lives based round a Birmingham tower block.

Initially, the story telling seems to get in the way, but it quickly makes sense, and soon everything fits perfectly, with one of the roles providing a neat bit of self-mockery about a jobless jazz rapper.

Kinch, on alto and tenor saxes, is a fluent and melodic sax player, yet also capable of raw bursts of energy.

At nearly 80 minutes, this is serious listening, one for a quiet room and an iPod, perhaps. Part two of the story is due shortly on a new CD.