Spaces Unfolding is the acoustic, free improvising trio of flutist Neil Metcalfe, known for his work with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall and the London Improvisers Orchestra, violinist Philipp Wachsmann (who established The Bead Label in 1974), fellow close associate of Evan Parker, who also plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra and King Übü Örchestrü, and Norwegian-born, generation younger drummer Emil Karlsenm, who also plays in the London Improvisers Orchestra. Spaces Unfolding has been working since 2021 and Shadow Figures is the sophomore album of the trio (and the 50th of the label), following The Way We Speak (Bead, 2022), where the trio hosts Canadian, Huddersfield-based electronics player-composer-eductor Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, who has collaborated before with Karlsen
