When The World Was One 5509089 and Brian Blade's percussive finesse

and Brian Blade's percussive finesse lays the rhythmic foundation for this dream team

to music inspired by modernist composer Fartein Valen

Kinetika Bloco

Outerstate

Probably the absolute peak of an astonishing five decade career in jazz

When The World Was One 5509089 and Brian Blade's percussive finesseThe Manchester trumpeter, composer and all round northern new music enabler Matthew Halsall might be a man with the open ears and eclectic energy to run a broad based contemporary record label but he's also a disciple of the meditative 1960s music of John and Alice Coltrane, which significantly steers his own ventures. Halsall's personal projects often come close to the Coltranes' most reflective later works, but his Gondwana Orchestra (including