Group Inerane & Flower/Corsano Duo @ Kinning Park Complex, 2 December

The Kinning Park Complex, a recently-established community/arts centre in a former late-Victorian school, tonight boasts one of the more eagerly-anticipated lineups to grace Glasgow’s underground scene in recent times. Accordingly, as improv/rock/noise duo Mick Flower and Chris Corsano take the stage, a sold-out crowd fills the school’s former gym. It's not a perfect venue in terms of acoustics and visibility, although its nostalgic charm compensates.

The pair have been playing together, on and off, for several years now, and Corsano’s breathtakingly athletic drumming seems almost symbiotically entwined with Flower’s dexturous manipulations of the shahi baaja. Flower plays this instrument, a form of electric zither, in a unique style that betrays his background in avant-rock: John Cale-esque drones form a rippling backdrop to Corsano’s more spasmodic assaults, but the true beauty and subtlety of its kaleidoscopic shimmer becomes evident in the music's more subdued passages.

Niger’s Group Inerane, playing tonight as part of their first-ever European tour, are one of the more remarkable global acts that the Sublime Frequencies label has brought to a wider audience. Bibi Ahmed’s quartet have developed an electrified take on traditional Tuareg music, which centres around group singing and gyrating twin-guitar lines, that ebb and flow over undulating bass and drums.

The blues and psych elements of the sound, combined with its mesmerisingly addictive rhythms, create a mixture that bears plenty of affinities to the western rock tradition, without being beholden to it; it’s a blend that is ecstatically received by the crowd. Having sold out the sizable space here, Group Inerane will surely be back before long – and when they are, one suspects, they’ll need a bigger venue.