The Fall – Slates [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic With a dual background in

With a dual background in jazz and ethnomusicology

Ivan Vandor - tenor saxophone

The three multi-instrumentalists collaborated with the goal of creating subtly shifting musical passageways: sonic routes that run between continents of musical category

Imai has been a driving force behind Marginal Consort a collective of Japanese avant-garde musicians devoted to collective improvisation

He slurps out a version of "Hey Gert

The Fall – Slates [LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic With a dual background in""If The Fall truly is a cult band, then Slates both benefits from and reinforces such shrouded obsessions. In presenting these six particular songs as a 10 inch EP, the inherent and attractive difficulty of The Fall's sound is made physical, framing the urgency of their singles from this period (notably How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' and Lie Dream of a Casino Soul) alongside lengthy rumblings normally restricted to long players. The tumbling and phased