K. Freund - Hunter On The WingPiano, handmade electronics, tenor sax, couple strings. I was after something tangible. Sounds you could roll around in your palm and consider different, complex, and flawed textures. Feel the weight, maybe even smell them. This desire is probably a reaction to the dissociative nausea from the constant simulacra of these early 2020s. Like deliberately going barefoot to feel yourself grounded in a real place, as I read Andrea Needham did when facing

Released in 1971 'Small Talk At 125th and Lenox' was the start of Gil Scott-Heron's distinguished forty-year recording career but this album is his simplest and most hard-hitting

they have a whole slew of 7” records out all over the world

Maggot Brain

Compiled by Chapter Music's Guy Blackman

and feminist sci-fi writers (“Lucy Shone a Light On You: The Ballad of Lucy Connor Part II”)

He formed Disappears a couple years later

the haunting tones conjure Tricky

as witnessed on Funamachi-Uta Part 2

But then listening to Coldplay instead of Turin Brakes is like the Almost Famous generation choosing Don McLean over Tim Buckley

Available on 3LP – Mint Green

Lewis Taylor can be a claustrophobic listen

B-sides from singles ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ and ‘Confetti’