Rachel Musson along with her Tatterdemalion trio bandmate drummer Mark Sanders plus new recruit double bassist John Edwards, known for his work with Alexander Hawkins and Mulatu, are to release a new album on Two Rivers Records, the fledgling label has announced, with a summertime release and launch gig planned.

This will be the third album as a leader for saxophonist Musson, a respected presence on the London free improv scene particularly since emerging some six years ago with the release of her larger band Skein’s album Flight Line. She performed last week in duo with Olie Brice for Jazz at the Oxford, in easily the most stimulating gig reviewed by Marlbank so far this year. 

Her third label in as many albums (her debut was on F-IRE and Tatterdemalion released three years ago, to little fanfare unluckily at the time, was on Babel) her approach is uncompromising, a harshly compelling gritty construction to it achieved through tone distortion and multiphonics, a certain hardcore nihilism never far away and a sound that recalls the music of Ingrid Laubrock. 

Stephen Graham

John Edwards, top left, Rachel Musson and Mark Sanders. Photo: Alex Bonney. More on the album plans and gig details are on the Two Rivers site