THE NATIONAL JAZZ TRIO OF SCOTLAND – Standards Vol. VI LP Psychedelic From metallic street punk (“Know”)

From metallic street punk (“Know”) to swinging celestial psych (“Sing Swing”) to the crunching terror blues that is “Two Lights” this is a band showing that maturity means knowing your strengths and also knowing how to keep pushing it

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listening for the pulse of the ancient

As you hear the opening

while side two opens out into more extended

THE NATIONAL JAZZ TRIO OF SCOTLAND – Standards Vol. VI LP Psychedelic From metallic street punk (“Know”)A kind of hush pervades throughout Standards Vol VI, the latest release by The National Jazz Trio of Scotland, the ironically named project helmed by Falkirks musical polymath, Bill Wells, that is neither a trio, nor a jazz band. If this collection of ten covers probably comes closest to the latter in its late night renditions of actual standards, the presence of long term NJToS member and collaborator Aby Vulliamy as the records lone vocalist adds to