Comments about the band's previous album "The Scale".

"A songbook as diverse as this one has to be given a lot of ear-time. It re-pays with unravelling mysteries, like an orchestrated spy novel. Big music does your head in, you have been warned." - Steve Day, December 2021

"Imagine that Captain Beefheart disbanded the Magic Band straight after Trout Mask Replica and then slipped off into the desert. By some freak of nature that I can't explain, he returns to 2021 having magically transformed into a French woman. In this new guise she captures a band of improvising musicians and imprisons them in a recording studio. They will not be released until total weirdness has been achieved. And they succeed. Fast and bulbous indeed." - feedback from a Discus Music customer.

Sometime in 2022 vocalist / composer Carla Diratz commented that were she to make another album, the state of the world dictated that it would have to be a blues album. Immediately we had our brief for a new record. Each of us had out own take on this idea. Carla sent in four jazz infected pieces for voice and keys which were recorded on her phone. Nick came up with a sequence of progressive blues rock pieces for the band. And Martin came up with a few little odds and ends with his own leftfield take on the format.

We hope you will enjoy our modern contribution to the progressive blues rock tradition.

Carla Diratz: voice, keyboard

Martin Archer: saxophones, clarinets, keyboards, electronics

Nick Robinson: guitars

Adam Fairhall: organ, electric piano

Dave Sturt: bass guitar

Adam Fairclough: drums

Charlotte Keeffe: trumpet