This is a very special release indeed on Vision Of Sound Records.

STIRFRY (1993-1996) was an experimental electro/acoustic trio based in Norwich that constantly challenged many of the accepted rules and boundaries of free, improvised music-making at that time by way of its openness to sampling, melody and rhythm just as much as more experimental approaches to sound.

It featured Colin Brady (percussion), Dave Pullin (soprano and sopranino saxophones) and Simon Vincent (piano, synthesizer and live electronics), and in its brief yet intense history surprised - it's more than fair to say - audiences at some of the UK's leading improvised music events in Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester, London and of course Norwich itself.

This studio recording made in 1995 allows the listener a unique and focused window into the pacing, energy and above all detail of just some of the vast canvas of STIRFRY's soundworld.

Audiences may already have been aware of both Dave Pullin's and my experimental output, however many would not have heard Colin Brady in this context as often as they should have, and all three of us were delighted to have had the chance not only to listen once more to these recordings at the beginning of this year, but also to decide that we should like to make them available.