Greg Foat & Ayo Salawu

London-based keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and DJ Greg Foat is a musician completely of his time and somehow beyond it. His highly original "non-contemporary jazz" utilizes both conventional instruments and an exotic array of unorthodox ones, including harpsichord, tubular bells, and a 15-piece choir. Foat's music relies heavily on inspirations from library and soundtrack music, global folk traditions, psychedelia, hymnody, ambient music, and '60s and '70s pop, soul, and blues. Whether solo, as co-leader of Hampshire & Foat (with Bees' multi-instrumentalist Warren Hampshi...