Believe: Nature's God LP (Pre-order, releasing August 21 )

Laurence Pike (drums/percussion), Clayton Thomas (bass), Novak Manojlovic (piano), Peter Farrar (saxophone) make up the astonishing jazz/improv quartet Believe. ‘Nature's God’ - the second volume of a two-album release in collaboration with New York’s Relative Pitch Records and Melbourne’s Ramble Records. John Shand of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote of the first release,“I know of no more sophisticated activity of which humans are capable than freely improvising at this level." BELIEVE connects the spectrum of contemporary creative sound making with the fluid, anything is possible momentum of free jazz. When benchmarks are Albert Ayler and The Necks, and you intend to play for the universe, not the algorithm, the remarkable is possible. For the past three and half years this Sydney-based quartet has committed to a musical process of learning, exploring, experimenting and growing in public. No other local group has been so committed to live performance.