Spring Heel Jack And Wadada Leo Smith With Pat Thomas And Steve Noble - Hackney Road LP xx1977 Then ‘Itz Crack’ puts strangely

Then ‘Itz Crack’ puts strangely edited samples against echoey vocals and off kilter kicks to give the track a really unusual slip and slide feeling

haunted visions of broken people and places making a sacred ritual out of ruining themselves

and the Daniel Clowes artwork

in their only live work together

While some of the poems contained within Black Case have already been immortalized via performances on classic records by Jarman and Art Ensemble of Chicago

Spring Heel Jack And Wadada Leo Smith With Pat Thomas And Steve Noble - Hackney Road LP xx1977 Then ‘Itz Crack’ puts strangely"The Spring Heel Jack duo of guitarist and multi instrumentalist John Coxon and keyboard & electronics player Ashley Wale are joined by UK improvising masters Pat Thomas on synth, keyboard & theremin, Steve Noble on drums, and US legend Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet, for a six "Scene" album of staggeringly intense improvisation over rich soundscapes; superb"The album is forty odd minutes across six discrete tracks, labeled Scene I VI, but flows as well