You’d be forgiven for thinking this fellow and his home-made guitar, fashioned from a cigar box, had been unearthed deep in the Mississippi Delta. You couldn’t get further from the truth. William Adamson is just one of the alter egos of Rob Gallagher, former acid house DJ, underground poet, new age rapper and lead singer of acid jazz combo Galliano – the first act to be signed to Talkin’ Loud in the late eighties.

You might also have encountered him as Earl Zinger and Two Banks Of Four, because those were different faces of his leftfield experiments over the years, often in conjunction with my fellow Stokey boy Gilles Peterson, upon whose Brownswood laberl this was released.

William Adamson’s album Under An East Coast Moon is a self-proclaimed “topographical travelogue” of the region, inspired by both a walking tour of the county’s eastern shoreline, and also by academic WG Sebald’s book The Rings Of Saturn.

I’m not sure which version to post: this is a stripped-back live performance and here you can find the longer album version, with all the additional electronic effects, and below this you can hear the completely bonkers dub version.