Polish trio kIRk create a post-industrial, improvisation-based "soundtrack for sleepwalking, hypnotism, undeath, and all liminal states of consciousness". They meet Pavel Godfrey to discuss last album Zła Krew, losing all their equipment and the evolution of the Polish music scene
Echolocation
The incendiary debut album from guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Devin Hoff (with James Brandon Lewis on tenor sax and Ches Smith on drums) evokes a fusion of Sonny Sharrock and Sonic Youth, or Black Flag and Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, finds Sean Kitching