I.M, the debut album from Israeli-born and NYC-based Idan Morim, is an elegant exploration of “being” by the guitarist and composer. As a bandleader, Morim leads his quintet through the album’s nine tracks, whose shifting tone colors and harmonious aesthetics meditate on the tension between identity and being. Morim presents the listener with a dimensional set of landscapes and stories, which, in the expert hands of the I.M quintet, reveal their complexities as the album unfolds. As the title alludes to, it is an record that manages to simultaneously ask and assert: I Am.