Robert Logan ‘Cognessence’ (Slowfoot, 2007)

Lost gems? We got ‘em by the chestful. Glittering musical prizes lost in the mists of time. This month, we clap our ears around Global Communication’s ‘Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis’

It’s the 90s and New York techno duo Morph have slipped out their ‘Stormwatch’ album almost unnoticed. Very much time for a reassessment we think

The artists that live on the fringes, the forward (or sideways) thinkers, have always drawn me in. This fascination really kicked in at university when, in the early 2000s, I presented a radio show with Erotic Volvo of Birmingham wrong-pop band Misty’s Big Adventure. As a kind of musicologist of the weird, his selections were never predictable and often a revelation.

In Ananda Shankar’s relatively short lifetime, the Indian sitar player was never afraid to push boundaries.

"Music moves in mysterious ways, as do, I’ve discovered over the years, the people who work in and around it"