Draw a line in the sand from Soft Machine to well out into the sea. The tide may have changed many thousands of times since the late-1960s, yet prog jazz or the nuprog, emanating in the Canterbury sound, and more especially psychedelic rock, is increasingly where it’s at in terms of the new wave of experimental Britjazz. It has been for a while. Prog began to be reclaimed after the term became derided for many years as its creativity waned and became bloated and identified with ELP and god help us Rick Wakeman. Psychedelic prog is really at the heart of the matter and it’s very different to say Jon Hiseman’s more jazz-rock approach back in the day. There are only a few bands who come under the banner, you can’t really fake it unless somebody decides to add a click track to it and loads of vocals. So there’s Troyka and World Service Project, and Polar Bear more elliptically. The jazz influences that feed in are very disparate. There’s probably Weather Report in there, big dollops of M-BASE, and spoonfuls of Django Bates and wistful nods to King Crimson.

WSP export the concept all over the place via Match & Fuse, the name east London web producer Lee Paterson dreamt up brainstorming with the band driven by the visionary and well organised Dave Morecroft.

The idea is to link WSP with bands who don’t happen to live their lives in a Redditch potting shed, or whatever the equivalent is in Caen or Stavanger, or play bowls on the village green or discuss the finer points of wood burning in their spare time. These bands include Twin Peaks‘-loving Owls Are Not What They Seem, and the pick of the bunch Pixel, from Norway, now signed to Soft Machine-loving US experimental label Cuneiform.

In arts-speak Match & Fuse has a “primary aim of connecting creative scenes across Europe", which it sort of does. After touring England with Matt Jacobsen’s “two horns/no chords" boffins Redivider last year and playing the Gillett Square M & F all dayer to good effect they hook up with Redivider again this time in Ireland next month. Dates are Dolan’s, Limerick (7 March); Crane Lane Theatre Cork (8 March); and The Twisted Pepper, Dublin (10 March). SG

World Service Project, above