Ishmael Ensemble - Visions of LightBristol experimental jazz collective Ishmael Ensemble reveal their expansive new album Visions of Light. The follow up to their critically acclaimed 2019 debut A State of Flow, praised by the likes of The Guardian, Mojo, The Wire and tastemakers across BBC 6Music, this sophomore record sees the group reimagine what an ensemble can do; expanding into a shifting collective, where human relationships between artists underpin far ranging, stunningly

As the tagline on the album’s back cover makes clear then

walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness

the electromechanical and synthetic sounds of keyboards

one that breezes along with boundless energy

Strom’s solicitation into the unknown continued through a half dozen more stellar releases during the decade

Coltrane Plays The Blues features Blues To Bechet

Sold out and out of print shortly after its original release on Urinal Cake Records in October 2012

Legend has it they fell into the hands of my friends and I due to the patronage of one or two midwestern underground rock luminaries but I prefer to believe it was an otherworldly intervention that first brought “Out Of The Mist” to my basement boom box (albeit on the flilpside of a live Die Kreuzen recording)

Minus the muscle

Dumplins - Byron Lee & The DragonariesåÊ

gotten out of some tight situations and luckily emerged unscathed

the proto-garage rhythmic fury of The Monks and the grooves of Os Mutantes