As well as publishing his own book Adrift on the Sea of Rains, Ian Sales has been editing the anthology Rocket Science which is being launched this weekend under the imprint of Mutation Press.

Mutation Press’s previous venture, the anthology Music for Another World, was full of high quality content. I expect no less of Rocket Science.

Last week I attended the Edinburgh launch for the new anthology Music For Another World.

Several authors including Writers’ Bloc‘s very own Gavin Inglis read extracts from their stories. All sounded excellent.

Highlight for me was Neil Williamson. This is the first time that I’ve witnessed an author accompany a reading on the piano.

After these extravaganzas we were treated to further musical performances by the Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle. Another first: witnessing a woman playing a saw in the flesh. (Or a man come to that. There were sometimes saw players on the TV when I was young but there have been none for a long time now I think.) The sound is weird and ethereal; a bit like a theremin but slightly less other worldly.

The Markee can sing well too.