Liner notes by Des Cowley:

Potentially Interesting Jazz Music is the third studio album by Melbourne improvising unit I Hold the Lion’s Paw (IHTLP), following on from Abstract Playgrounds (2018), and Lost in Place (2021). (There has been a steady trickle of singles, Eps, live albums, bootlegs in between, but that’s another story). Three albums, seven years, it points to a measured and considered output. Clearly, no-one’s rushing the end zone here.

In previous incarnations, IHTLP was a loose, free-floating ensemble, drawing on a rotating cast of musicians, the exact number never fixed. It merely expanded, or warped as needed. The ensemble’s ever-changing palette was simply at the beck and call of trumpeter Reuben Lewis’s foundational vision, emphasising elasticity, and malleability. The upshot was a music that constantly morphed, a psychedelic hubbub of shape-shifting sounds, stretched or compressed at will, woven into endlessly mutating patterns, constantly evolving.

That was then, this is now. In recent years, IHTLP has bedded itself into a stable quartet: Reuben Lewis, Emily Bennett, Adam Halliwell, Ronny Ferella. But there is nothing stable about this new manifestation, it’s as bold and capricious as ever... morecredits released September 26, 2025

I Hold the Lion’s Paw are:

Reuben Lewis - trumpet, synthesisers, pedals
Emily Bennett - voice, synthesisers, lyrics, vocal compositions
Adam Halliwell - bass guitar, guitar, double neck guitar, 12-string guitar, flute, voice
Ronny Ferella - drums, voice