In June, London-based producer Paul White will release his sophomore album, Paul White & The Purple Brain. It’s the follow-up to 2009’s The Strange Dreams of Paul White and will be co-released by One-Handed Music and Stones Throw sister label Now-Again.

It’s a collaboration “across space and time” – being entirely based around and inspired by the work of obscure Swedish psych-rock type S.T. Mikael.

The home recordings of this cult artist – which have strong Eastern influences and “otherworldly concerns” – have been issued since the 1990s in small quantities by the Subliminal Sounds label.  After he was granted open access to Mikael’s intriguing back catalogue, White set himself the challenge of creating an LP using the multi-instrumentalist’s recordings as his sole sample source.

The resulting work is even more mind-bending than you might expect, warranting comparisons with everything from D.I.T.C. and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to July and, er, Hungarian fairground music. The album’s release will be preceded by a single, ‘My Guitar Whales’, b/w ‘The Bright Future’, on April 12.