Award winning punk jazz innovators WorldService Project (WSP) have erupted across the UK promoting new material ahead of their second album in 2012.

The London based unit are described by Time Out as “…dazzling…big things lie ahead for them” and were also dubbed as “brilliant post-prog funk” (Jazzwise) a “tour de force” (York Press) and “lively, immaginative and consistantly absorbing” (London JazzBlog).

WSP’s intense live sound has taken 2011 by storm, with dates in Paris, London, Oslo, Leeds, Newcastle, Birmingham, Lyon, Bergen and Trondheim, as well as major jazz festivals in Brecon, St Germain de Calberte (SE France), Swanage, Marsden and a date at the Barbican Centre fro London Jazz Festival 2011.

Led by pianist/ composer Dave Morecroft, WSP’s music speaks through dark, intense building passages, winding through dissonance, complex rhythmic manipulation and extreme dynamics. Other times it draws on he language of 20th Century Classical composers layered over boisterous grooves more commonly found in albums by heavy rock artists.

In essence, imagine a four-way cage match between Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Stravinsky and Meshuggah. The result is high-octane experimental but accessible music with a smile on its face.