Ma: The Last – review

(Loop) London's F-ire and Loop Collectives keep turning up fascinating young bands. Ma is an improv/electronics/samples group featuring saxophonist Tom Challenger and drummer Dave Smith (cornerstones of the excellent Outhouse) with organist Ross Stanley, and Matt Calvert on electronics. It's a remarkably atmospheric album, reminiscent of everything from Bill Laswell's production work on classic Miles Davis tracks to AMM, from Tony Williams's Lifetime to Scandinavian ambient, abstract-funk inves...

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