Back in July 2022 Snuff ventured into the studio for the first time since lockdown. It was expected that the new album would take two weeks to record, but thanks to the focus of isolation and pent up frustration the whole thing was completed in little more than a week. The studio time had been paid for so what to do? On the daily commute the 185 bus would take Duncan Redmonds through the unfamiliar streets of South London from Lewisham to Perry Vale Studios. Undoubtedly bus journeys are,along with trains, the most contemplative of journeys and Duncan turned his mind to how best to use the unexpected windfall of extra studio time Monkey Jungle by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach had been on in the studio. Duncan remembered the stories of the ensemble just turning up and playing ...