Silvan Schmid, Tom Wheatley, Eddie Prévost

The Wandering One is the second volume of High Laver Levitations, the Matchless series recorded in the old church of High Laver, Essex. On 3 April 2023 Swiss trumpeter Silvan Schmid, London double bassist Tom Wheatley and Eddie Prévost on drums played three improvisations there, about 65 minutes in all. It sits between Prévost's duo with John Butcher on volume one and his trio with Ute Kanngießer and Seymour Wright on volume three.

Prévost, a founder of AMM in 1965 and the man behind Matchless, plays a drum kit here. Wheatley belongs to the circle of Prévost's weekly London workshop and played double bass on its 2022 concert record Widdershins. Stef Gijssels of The Free Jazz Collective notes that both had played in Tennota, a group moving between acoustic and electronic sound. Schmid also curated the Taktlos festival in 2023. In his 2024 review Gijssels hears Schmid's deep, warm tone and relatively accessible phrasing against Prévost's finely detailed drumming, which colours the whole sound. Wheatley's bowed bass often holds the music together. Gijssels reads the titles, Clearing the Detritus of Time, The Parsing of Sounds and Remembering to Forget, as almost a programme for music that refuses the weight of the past. Gijssels also praises the recording, as if you were sitting next to them.

Released by Matchless Recordings in 2024 on CD (MRCD 115), recorded at All Hallows Church, High Laver, with an essay by Prévost titled 40,076 years of the Avant-Garde.