Laurence Pike - Holy Spring (2019)

Improvisation has played a role throughout Pike's long and diverse career in music. Whether as part of PVT, Triosk or Szun Waves, or collaborating with Liars, legendary jazz pianist Mike Nock, DD Dumbo or the mighty Bill Callahan, he has long been a responsive musician for whom sensitive listening leads to spontaneous invention. Every motion, from the most minuscule flicker to a primal groove, is an expression of what's happening around him. Which is precisely how he, and the ensembles he's been part of, have been able to navigate so deftly between the poles of the familiar. Pike's work has always skirted around electronica, spiritual jazz, post-rock and many other recognisable sounds, without ever converging on one single style or resorting to obvious fusions.