We’ve put together a pretty unbelievable group of musicians to have a go at working this out. Alan Silva (double bass) – one of the great, and most delicate of Free Jazz double bassists, (he’s played with Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler and Sun Ra for god’s sake!), Silva’s Celestial Communication Orchestra forms a deeply thought blue-print for group energy in music. Donald Dietrich (sax) – Don’s gruff holler incanted through a sax makes up ½ of the front line assault of legendary snuff jazz outfit Borbetomagus. Incapacitants including Junko (electronics) – 2/5th of Hijokaidan, (who just about blew the PA at INSTAL 05), and active since the first wave of Japanese pure noise acts in the late 70’s / early 80’s, Incapacitants have created a noise music of ecstatic and emotionally expressive reverie: one of the most exhilarating live acts you’re likely to see. David Keenan (sax) – Keenan’s one ½ of Tight Meat, Glasgow’s own punk-primitive free jazz duo. Kazuo Imai (electric guitar) – jaw droppingly beyond any idea of technique, Imai is our favourite guitarist.  A sometime Incapacitants collaborator he’s equally at home in post-Derek Bailey nylon stringed navigations. Sabu Toyozumi (drums) – seriously heavy Japanese free-music thinker and Masayuki Takayanagi, Kaoru Abe, Keiji Haino, and Peter Brötzmann collaborator. Michiyo Yagi (17 & 21 stringed koto) – classically trained koto (traditional Japanese stringed musical instruments, about 5ft long) player and fearsome free improviser. Ben Hall (drums) – Hall occupies the drum stool in Graveyards, the most intriguing of Wolf Eyes offshoots, specialising as they do in lower case murmerings as much a free noise.

Curated with David Keenan of Volcanic Tongue