STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe
FORMER Henry Cow guitarist Fred Frith presents an unusual musical spectacle. He plays guitar flat on his lap, either patting and rubbing its strings with what looks like a clothes brush and an empty tuna tin or with a bow or a towel laid along its length.
He’s accompanied by Lotte Anker from Copenhagen, who plays caustic notes on a rasping soprano saxophone, and drummer Samuel Duhsler. He creates tinny sounds on his cymbals or what resembles the griddle of a barbecue and drums a long chain that he has dropped onto his snares.
The sounds seethe in front of Heike Liss’s fluid, improvised visuals of daybreak, dissolving mists and snowstorms at sea.

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to vocalist Jacqui Dankworth

CHRIS SEARLE pays tribute to the late South African percussionist, Louis Moholo-Moholo

Re-releases from Bobby Wellins/Kenny Wheeler Quintet, Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippet/Louis Moholo-Moholo, and Charles Mingus Quintet

CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ethiopian vocalist SOFIA JERNBERG