since impressing far and wide with their
beats for bars project patrick bird and
martyn savigar have now expanded their
range of collaborators to weird, wonderful
and sometimes audacious effect...

in the immediate vicinity, there’s former specimen and siouxsie & the banshees
guitarist jon klein, drummer chris bell [also specimen but a bevy of ‘80s giants too] and, showing up in the course of this hallucino-genic journey, billie holliday, catatonia, marc bolan and even the young john peel, whose unmistakeable and always welcome tones
talk about woodland creatures on deaf aid
amidst another calming space-shuffle before singer anna jacyszyn wafts in...

the concept is mash-up taken to diverse extremes creating slow motion symphonies which plant some familiar voices in fields of dreams where the mood is deep, dubbed and drenched in ghosts as billie holliday looms in trav’lin’ light to spine-melting effect, soul clapp creates a new hiphop hybrid, white space is an orchestral treatment of goth-glamsters specimen and there are ultra-laid-back tracks like deuteronomy where the players stretch out after the guests have left...

this is an opiated aural delight from start to finish, by which time you might be stroking the ceiling like a long-lost friend, satisfied that now the world’s a better place and wondering why they don’t make them like this any more...

have a listen at caned & able’s myspace
or check out the website

caned & able's smoke...
is released on 28th april 2008

tracklisting
1: trav’lin’ light 2: wild on the sidewalk
3: never coming back 4: airhead 5: soul clapp
6: deuteronomy 7: phat beats/bulimic beats
8: white space 9: deaf aid 10: killa sound
11: orchestra
running time: 47m 21s