Beverly Glenn-Copeland - Transmissions: The Music Of Beverly Glenn-CopelandThroughout a fifty year recording career, legendary singer, composer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn Copeland's music has defied categorisation and genre, its only consistency being the extraordinary fusion of vision, technology, spirituality and place. Now in his mid 70s, Glenn Copeland was born into a musical family and studied the classical piano repertoire from cradlehood, listening to his father playing the piano four to five hours a day.

The rhythm

Since 1995 The Brian Jonestown Massacre has released numerous albums

one abound with signposts that point toward a naÌøve outlook

Whilst his beard and directly to the left stance suggested agitprop and protest

techno and progressive rock - creating a shimmering

5: Game (Instrumental)

The debut album from 1969 was immense

which wouldn't be out of place on one of George Jones' most heartbroken albums

Wishful Sinful (Doors only mix)

It's an approach that delivers a contrast of muscular shocks with the fiery central riff of 'Snake Oil' and the menacing percussive march of 'Albatross' set against some of the band's most openly experimentally moments to date such as cocktail of afrobeat and drum machines that underpins 'Night Swimmers' and the stripped-back

When asked about the methods and the madness behind capturing the scorched earth soul of Under the Savage Sky

which also include a huge homecoming gig at Manchester’s Heaton Park