Recorded on a Steinway D Grand Piano at the Lancaster University Arts department, here we find Stephen Grew performing three fully improvised pieces (17:18, 13:22 and 22:46 long respectively) relying solely on his skill as a pianist to ensure the music is fluid and...

Here we have the debut album from improvisational musicians Potamos, which feature Harris Lambrakis on Ney (an end-blown flute that figures prominently in traditional Persian, Turkish, Jewish, Arab, and Egyptian music), Gilad Atzmon (woodwind), Vironas Ntolas...

I have been thoroughly enjoying the remastered reissues of classic blues albums from Craft/Concord, and the latest I have come across is this Lonnie Johnson album from 1960. Lonnie was a pioneer of both jazz guitar, widely recognised as the first to play guitar solos...

Here we have a new outfit, but whenever I see the name of drummer Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, End Reign, Fulgora, Lock Up, Scour) I always it up and take notice as he has been at the forefront of some of my favourite extreme bands for many years. This...

Mississippi John Hurt is another one of those musicians who was overlooked for much of his life, recording for Okeh in the Twenties and then going back to the farm. It was only after two of his songs were included in Harry Smith’s 1952 collection, ‘The Anthology of...

Here we have another classic blues album which has been remastered and issued on Craft Recordings/Concord, but I must confess Scrapper was new to me and I had to undertake some research. Apparently back in the 1920’s he was in a musical partnership with pianist Leroy...

Zabocus are based around the songwriting duo of Ted Zahn (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and drum programming) and Steve Bonino (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards and drum programming), joined by Laura Green (vocals), Steve Anabale (trumpet), and Joe Canuel (electric...