Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory: Live in Concert Creative Scotland****

If you could only bottle the heat generated by Fiddlers Bid's Chris Stout and his band of Brazilian theorists. Recorded live at Glasgow's Celtic Connections in 2010, and capturing a raft of experimental noodlings that originated in Stout's visit to Brazil in 2003, this is music that's a match for the most complex theorising this side of E=MC². Driven by the combined forces of Stout, Brazilian guitarist Carlinhos Antunes and Swiss fiddle player Thomas Rohrer, along with Stout's regular musical collaborator, harpist Catríona McKay, Brazilian Theoryfreewheels its way skywards with one toe cocked towards skeletal rhythms ( Pé Quebrado) and another dipping languidly into mischievous, but never quite demonic whirlpools of revelry. Devil's Advocate, paired here with Olov Johansson's Bambodansarna, is a stuttering, unpredictable delight. There's a Houdini-like, escape-hatch quality to this collection that never fails to surprise – and delight. See musicscotland.com