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Corey Mwamba presents free jazz and improvised music to make spaces expand, including new releases from Belgian trio Dry Speed and British saxophonist John Butcher.

From a live session recorded at Les Atelier Claus in Bruxelles, Indium is the result of the genre-defying collaboration between Joachim Devillé (electric guitar, flugelhorn, trumpet, effects), Thomas Olbrechts (alto saxophone, prepared post horn) and Dirk Wauters (drums, percussions), who formed as the trio Dry Speed in the early 2000s.

Their sparse soundscapes, meticulously crafted, radiate through the studio room, leading us into the floating solo saxophone of John Butcher, recorded inside the Brønshøj Vandtårn, a concrete water-tower in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Here, the sound of Butcher’s instrument reverberates and resonates against the walls of this wide space, taking root in the air.

Elsewhere in the show, an improvised brew in a London beer shop from Robbie Judkins (zither, objects and effects) and Colin Webster (baritone sax), their spontaneous music bubbling and flitting around the room; plus the latest molecule-permeating free jazz collaboration from the Norwegian powerhouse rhythm section of Ingebrigt HÃ¥ker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3