Elliot Galvin is a prolific jazz musician, specialising in improvised piano and synthesis, and a key member of the Mercury-nominated group Dinosaur, led by Laura Jurd. Galvin’s forthcoming release, The Ruin (2025) on label Gearbox, sees him entering new territory, collaborating with Ruth Goller and Sebastian Rochford, among others, and building upon his reputation as an accomplished piano improviser to incorporate modular synths, drum machines, and samplers. The first single from Ruins, titled “From Beneath,” is true to its title, offering a murky, bubbling creature of a song that emerges as it were from the proverbial swamp. What begins as an ethereal hymn, with Goller’s haunting, choral vocals, transforms as Rochford’s distorted drums pull the music elsewhere, closer to a smoky, esoteric hip-hop-inspired, serpentine jazz style. Speaking to the development of his sound, Galvin says “I took a break from releasing my own music to build a new approach influenced by a growing sense of disquiet with the direction of the world and my own life changes, resulting in darker sonic world, rich in life experience.” Galvin will be joined at Rewire 2025 by Goller on vocals, Rochford on drums, and Mandhira de Saram on violin.