The Durutti Column - Sunlight to blue … Blue to blacknessSunlight to blue Blue to blackness This was one of the more upbeat title suggestions for the very bare, back to basics, reflective album from The Durutti Column. Originally released in June 2008, Sunlight to Blue was a conscious response to the previous two polished and studio based releases. Here he created some sparse, simply beautiful 'sketches' as he once called them, more reminiscent of his work from the early eighties. Many of the pieces are

The space left after matter has departed

Led by surviving founding members Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye

before their otherworldly dreaminess is pin-pricked at its height by Emily’s beautiful alto on ‘The Failing Light’

Max and Julien

Scalping 7

That’s ignoring how time travel can be done through stories and non-verbal communication

” Each album includes oversized booklet with extensive liner notes and rare photos

Betamax (drums) and King Shabaka (saxophone)

and personally

‘Tiger Bay’ was intended to be nothing less than the sound of folk music reimagined for the last years of the 20th Century

African rhythmic tradition

Ballad Of Jim Jones