Bomata is Montréal-based doublebassist Jean-Félix Mailloux’s second trio (the first one being the string trio Cordâme). And Arômes d’ailleurs (“Scents from Abroad”) is the second album, just out, by this trio also featuring clarinettist Guillaume Bourque (of Sagapool) and percussionist Patrick Graham. Mailloux’s music keeps gaining in sophistication, borrowing elements from India, Asia, and Northern Africa to feed his taste for non-obvious melodies. Graham, a master of the frame drum, anchors these borrowed elements in credibility (he is also helped in that regard by Ziya Tabassian on four tracks). This album shows how thin the line has grown between Cordâme and Bomata — it’s just a matter of instrumentation, since the creative drive and quality of the arrangements are one and the same.