Vundabar - Smell SmokeFrom 2014 to 2017, Vundabar's Brandon Hagen cared for a loved one that had fallen into a debilitating state of mental and physical decline. For four years his sickness and the eventual loss that followed became the focal point of Hagen's life as well as his family's. It was the bell jar under which they lived. Hagen was fractured into two selves; one, largely insular, racked by grief and loss and the other putting it on, touring relentlessly and

'chin up' sadness that even a cold bastard would get swept away by: 'And if I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs / I just don't think I'll ever get over you

who as a result of a series of unfortunate circumstances

Pierre de la Rue is one of the most fascinating and yet most elusive members of the talented generation of composers from around 1500

Now he ventures further off the beaten track with the complete surviving organ music of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663-1712)

and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents

The work deliberately uses as "raw material" only notes

where he collaborated with California artist Baby Beesh

"MacBeth" and "Don Juan"

among other teachers

The CD will be limited edition to 1000 copies only

*this* is the apex of British jazz-rock fusion

Brand new studio album