I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.