With Science telling us the prospect of life everlasting is just around the corner, Mike Rudds 1st BASE in Life after Life sees piano accordionist George Butrumlis and bassist Jeremy Alsop joining Spectrums main man Mike Rudd in an acoustically-skewed selection of Rudds highly individual music that parallels his own reinvention and renewal.With the possibility of Rudd playing on into his hundreds we can eventually anticipate a minimalist phase, but in the meantime sit back and enjoy a robust but sensitive account of the Rudd (and Crudd) repertoires, with a little modern inserted in the vast reservoir of ancient, all positively illuminated by the accompaniment of George and Jeremy, a couple of the best musicians around.