Wand Laughing Matter Tricolour Logo hailing from southern Italy but

hailing from southern Italy but in fact a citizen of the world and - more importantly - one of the most revered and inventive jazz trombone players in the world from the last decade or so (as stated on several Down Beat Critics Polls and proven on his Blue Note and ECM releases)

spurred on by a blossoming rock scene that included Jefferson Airplane

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the independent television station Channel 4 approached them about a film project pairing musicians from different genres

Wand Laughing Matter Tricolour Logo hailing from southern Italy butThe new Wand album is a generous double album, a record of love and terror experienced in epic doses. "Laughing Matter" is part fuzzy parable, travel diary, pep talk and lullaby, with Wand going as far they can, from concise guitar rock to multifarious, eclectic pastiche, rich with disruption and ascendant choruses. Wand form new music from the ashes of a world that can no longer suffer its human abusers, to inspire us to hold the spirit close and do