Prior to the recording of the Brilliant Words album, when looking around for someone with imagination for percussion, something more than your standard drum kit, I saw a band called Pie. They were outstanding, different, original ... and at the heart of this trio from deepest Lancashire was a vibrant percussionist.

Joe Caswell accepted immediatley my invitation to guest on some recordings, and I'll never forget going to collect him from his workshop, a unit in an old historic mill filled to the brim with a variety of weird and wonderful objects, each with it's own unique sound, each with a place in some percussive set-up or other in Joe's varied musical career.

We cobbled a 'kit' and set off to the studio. Joe played a blinder, and I was truly thankful that we had avoided the poor synthetic drums disease that has gripped and destroyed so many music recordings.

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