Six years since his death. instant composition's original Zen master has been busy in his abscence as usual, with a reissue of his superb 1983 solo Concert in Milwaukee, some newly found 1972 recordings of the Iskra 1903 trio and this previously unheard late-period gem scratched out in Stockwell, south London in 2000.

The Yorkshire yogi plays electric guitar here, snaking sustained hums over simpatico bustle from the saxophonist John Butcher and the percussionist Gino Robair. Pan walks abroad. The string-stretching satyr of non-idiomatic improvisation is back. Again.

© Stewart Lee - SUNDAY TIMES (December 2011)