Brian Morton and Alyn Shipton introduce a specially recorded session by Zyklus, a band whose semi-improvised sounds combine acoustic instruments with the electronics of the Zyklus MIDI-performance system. Its members are Neil Ardley ,
Ian Carr , Warren Greveson and John L Walters , and they play their own compositions, including part of Ardley's From the Four Winds. Plus jazz guitarist Marty Grosz was recorded in concert at the Royal
Academy of Art, where he talked to
Alyn Shipton about his father, painter George Grosz. Music on CD includes albums by Italian saxophonist Gianluigi Trovesi and by French guitarist Nguyen Lee. Producer Derek Drescher