Tim Bass was just a boy when he discovered music, but it was love at first note. “I was raised in a very poor family, so my family couldn’t really afford private lessons or anything of that nature, ...

A flourish of gaily coloured audio tapes adorns the mantelpiece of an upstairs kitchen in Hackney. I pick out the only spine written in English. And there, in impeccable Letraset, reads the rather ...