Over the last quarter-century, improvising percussionist Chris Corsano has collaborated widely and built an impressively diverse CV, playing free-jazz with the likes of saxophonists Joe McPhee and Evan Parker and avant-rock with underground guitarists such as Bill Orcutt and Richard Bishop. In all contexts, he brings both a feel for the ecstatic and a ferocious punk attack. This rare solo album, on which he plays and overdubs all the parts, neatly distils his journey so far, while finding new surprises.

Corsano’s kit is augmented with the string drum – a silicone string stretched across a bridge on a snare drum which, when hit, generates a loose tone a little like a diddley bow. On a couple of tracks, it provides insistent bass lines for primitive garage-rock chugs, over which he uncoils some nicely serrated guitar action with a hint of Sonny Sharrock’s barbed paroxysms. Elsewhere, he ranges freely around the kit with a fiercely concentrated energy, one moment using tuned drums to generate a hyperkinetic gamelan, the next riding a raw, juddering electronic noise blast with a free-form barrage both distorted and precise.

It all adds up to an impressively imaginative set from a highly focused, free-thinking polymath.