When was the last time you heard a new album for the first time and knew, almost immediately, that you would want to listen to it again and again—that you had to? Ancestral Recall, the latest offering from the New Orleans-born trumpeter, composer and bandleader Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, is such a recording. Everything about it brims with elation and inventiveness, which, in itself, is not that surprising as Adjuah (formerly just Christian Scott), still only 36, has pushed in a forward direction since first starting out nearly two decades ago. Utilizing the vibrant spoken-word interludes of poet Saul Williams on three tunes, multiple layers of African-rooted percussion courtesy of Weedie Braimah and Corey Fonville, and an array of Western and African instrumentation (notably piano, flute and Adjuah’s own trumpets and electronics), Adjuah creates a self-contained world within these dozen tracks. The music, particularly on the segments featuring Williams, like “I Own the Night” and the album-closing title track—his words lingering long after he’s finished speaking them—seems to emerge from deep within the artist’s consciousness, not bearing any discernible connection to specific time or place. The drums churn, the melody instruments provide ornamentation and coloration (kudos to Elena Pinderhughes for her remarkable flute work), sounds coalesce and dissipate—there is often a profound eeriness and a sense of dislocation, as if this music has always been there, hovering and just now finding its way to those whose ears are where they need to be. This is relentlessly powerful stuff, yet it’s never overwhelming—it floats in the air more than it pounds. Adjuah doesn’t need to work overtime to find his way into your head and heart; Ancestral Recall welcomes you in.