Navel-Gazers #40 is an interview with Annea Lockwood who is going to talk to us about the Early Works collection on EM records . A trove of historic material dating back to as early as 1967, it contains one-full length album ( The Glass World of Annea Lockwood ) plus the hypnotic, singular piece ‘Tiger Balm’, in addition to a special insert chronicling Annea’s famous Piano Transplants performance art installations from the period. It’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to an artist who has been exploring sound - from every conceivable angle - for over half a century, and yet to my ears this is really the perfect point of entry. I want to understand the origins of Annea’s practice. What were the original ideas, the experiments which ushered her into that idiosyncratic world of sound-maps and sound-balls and flaming upright pianos… 11,784 miles from her home city of Christchurch, New Zealand? I want to know more about the journey from country to country, from rive...