Hastings Of Malawi

Hastings of Malawi is an experimental group formed by Heman Pathak, David Hodes and John Grieve, who had all taken part in the first Nurse With Wound album. Their 1981 record, Vibrant Stapler Obscures Characteristic Growth, was made in a single night from instruments, found objects, old records and telephone calls to random numbers. The group returned decades later with new albums on Sub Rosa. Hastings of Malawi recorded with drums, clarinet, synthesiser and piano, adding cookbooks, telephone directories and the reactions of strangers reached by phone.