Drawing Breath, the jazz-rock six-piece Blue Touch Paper’s follow-up to 2012’s debut Stand Well Back, is confirmed for release early next month by Kent-based Provocateur Records, with an as-yet unannounced tour to follow. Led by the Mask Orchestra's Colin Towns, a prolific film and TV composer who may well by chance be currently more familiar as the composer of hit TV comedy Doc Martin back for another run, Blue Touch Paper with its post-Bitches Brew attitude couldn’t be more different. An Anglo-German sextet, featuring Towns’ highly individual keyboards style showcasing sampled sounds surging from the top of a powerful band in which he’s joined by Troyka guitarist Chris Montague, electric bassist Edward Maclean, super slick drummer Benny Greb, percussionist Stephan Maass, and Ellington In Anticipation bandleader Mark Lockheart, one track on the new album involves a treatment of the occult Act 1, Scene 1 Witches scene from Macbeth. Check this animated film for a flavour of ‘Fair is Foul’, created by animator Michael Tang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb57HMDT9Ss Drawing Breath is released on 14 October Blue Touch Paper, pictured