Scottish saxophonist Brian Molley is no stranger to Indian music, having toured India several times since 2015. Rather than merely presenting his music, Molley has sought to expand it, collaborating with the Rajasthani singer & sarangi player Asin Langa and, at the Madras Jazz Festival in 2017, with percussionist Krishna Kishor. Since then, the Brian Molley Quartet (BMQ) has returned to India twice, collaborating with Kishor each time. Intercontinental, recorded remotely between Glasgow and Chennai in 2021, is the fruit of the BMQ and Kishor's collaborations to date.

The rhythms of the world have filtered into Molley's previous three albums in an organic way, and Intercontinental is no exception. That said, although Kishor's array of percussive instruments infuses almost every track, this is not Indo-jazz per se. With the exception of the overtly