Lope & Antilope is confirmed as the title of Get the Blessing’s fourth album, their latest for Naim, to be released on 20 January 2014, and first since OCDC two years ago. Recorded in an empty pottery in Pembrokeshire in a four-day feast of improvising tracks are: ‘Quiet’, ‘Little Ease’, ‘Corniche’, ‘Antilope’, ‘Luposcope’, ‘Viking Death Moped’, ‘Hope For The Moment’, ‘Trope’, ‘Lope’, and ‘Numbers’. Tomorrow, Friday 8 November, the band play at the launch of the Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival [http://www.marlbank.net/news/1218-pee-wee-ellis-and-get-the-blessing-among-the-line-up-at-bristol-jazz-fest-launch-event-on-friday], and plan to tour in March with dates: in Liverpool at the Capstone theatre (2); XOYO, London (5); Hare & Hounds, Birmingham (6); Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival (9); Arts Centre, Warwick (10); Sheffield University Students' Union (27); and Clitheroe Grand, Clitheroe (29). Get the Blessing pictured