FMR's packaging is characteristically slapdash, so an opening word about what to expect here. The reunion aspect of this Cafe OTO evening was the first performance since 1988 of the ensemble String Thing: Ian Brighton, Philipp Wachsmann, Marcio Mattos and Trevor Taylor. Evan Parker and John Russell happened to be paired on the same bill and the night was rounded off with a collective improvisation from all six musicians. Brighton dropped out of the music some time ago to concentrate on his day-job – engineering's gain was improvisation's loss – but it's great to have him back. A solo improvisation, ‘Here, and Hear’, picks up from where his recent comeback album, Now and Then, leaves off; generously articulated throbs of dislocating blocks splintering into hectic silence. A near 30-minute improvisation from a re-formed String Thing is packed with intricately argued gestures which unfold over an intriguingly open-ended structure as Taylor's vibraphone nonchalantly weaves in and out of string sounds that are running amok. Parker and Russell's duo improvisation suffers from curiously pinched audio and the final collective improvisation reaches a satisfying big finish only after some so-so meanderings. An important document, though, of lost history re-established.