Music while we work – thanks to Root70

At LOFT, Cologne’s leading venue for new music, Plushmusic producer Matt Jolly and I are frantically ripping and cutting footage from the opening night of Plushmusic’s German launch festival. (That’s when we’re not lugging pieces of stage around, making coffee and losing the duck tape.) Over the next few hours we’ll introduce you to tonight’s performers, and streram some interviews to give you a taste of the event.

In the meantime, look what I just tripped over in my hunt for decent programme notes: Simon Nabatov playing with Nils Wogram’s Root70 at the Middelheim Jazz Festival in 2007. Lo-fi as this recording is, it’s still an exhilerating hint at the quality of music we’ll be enjoying tonight –

– and, for those less bothered about pretty colours, here’s a high-quality recording from the same event:

Ethan Ames