Lemondale

Following his collaboration with Maher Shalal Hash Baz on 2009’s GOK, Bill Wells returned to Japan to record Lemondale, corralling an impressive array of musicians to breathe life into its eleven tracks. The unorthodox orchestra featured the inimitable Nikaido Kazumi, Saya and Ueno from Tenniscoats, and Tokyo-residing experimentalist Jim O’Rourke amongst its numbers, and the disparate members evidently gelled.

Having recently illuminated the Aidan Moffat album ‘Everything’s Getting Older’, Bill Wells has travelled east to find his next collaboration.

Scottish jazz polymath travels to Japan and records an album in a day. CD review by Kieron Tyler