Time Bend And Break The Bower: Limited Edition Clear Vinyl LP Alma If the post-NWOBHM era threw

If the post-NWOBHM era threw up very little from the UK metal scene that could scare the world

while admitting tunefully that “Every girl and boy / each one is a misery” (“When The Cynics Stare Back From The Wall”)

Starting as the house band at the legendary Brixton spoken word and hip hop night Speakers Corner in 2006

Yet this profoundly moving session recorded in 1969 sat unreleased until 2003 when it was finally issued on CD through the efforts of Blue Note archivist Michael Cuscuna

Nancy recalls

Time Bend And Break The Bower: Limited Edition Clear Vinyl LP Alma If the post-NWOBHM era threwCommuning at the triangulation of words, music and image, OBrien has always conjured powerful worlds: but none more powerful, or as immersive, than on her debut record. In the space that exists between her delivery at once wry, silky, vicious, and self assured and the music a dynamic, dancing call and response from her collaborators, guitarist Julian Hanson and drummer Oscar Robertson lies a productive tension. Using a method of creating on instinct,