My guest on this month’s show is Sam Weaver, owner of Cuspeditions records and currently promoting some of the most fascinating new music in Manchester with his concert series Eroteme, run with his close friend Esok. Sam continues to remain a pivotal figure in the city’s underground music community. His talent as a recording engineer has seen him work with Charles Hayward, Turkish free-jazz group Konstrukt and capturing numerous important album’s by the young leading figures of Britain’s improvised music scene. Prior to Eroteme, Sam helped facilitate concerts in the city by The Necks, Peter Brotzmann, countless local improvised music shows and more recently a premier performance in Manchester of Morton Feldman’s 'Patterns in a Chromatic Field', which gives some indication to the breadth of Sam's interest in challenging and forward-thinking music. An experienced musician, Sam utilises a unique custom built instrument by Dutch synth designer, Rob Hordijk, and continues to collaborate with a wide diaspora of artists. His own music, and much of the sounds issued on his label, lie in the grey areas between acousmatic music, free improvisation and experimental electronics, often exploring ways to bring moments of calm and harmony out of passages of chaos. We talk about all these activities and much more throughout the three hour runtime! Not shy of voicing his opinion, Sam may cast himself as a bit of a cynic and a grump, but I actually believe he has an astute vision of just how good things could be with the right amount of diligence, thought and effort. He’s one of those rare, fascinating, wholly individual and sage-like characters that no scene can survive without.