desperately sprinting on our milipede legs towards the end of august we realise we have to release JULYMASS 2016 before the boiler explodes and huge gobbets of MESHMASS are deposited hither and yon. teams of carefully trained lunatics have been chiselling away at the piles of material we have accrued but despite our best efforts it seems that there will be no less (indeed, there will be very slightly more) than 3 hours of meshmass this month, for which we do not know whether to apologise or demand extra money - perhaps we will do both. in line with our policy of constant redefintion this monthly edition will include not less than a couple of pieces based on saxophone improvisations recorded in churches across sussex, england. i think of 'slow action in the science lounge' and 'translated from the gibberish' in particular, but there may even be others. i think the longest pieces are about 13 minutes and that there are 4 or 5 duets. there are 20 pieces in all. other innovations include richard's new guitar, a yamaha mg-k which features a 'sustainiac' pick-up and unlike most of his guitars is tuned in the 'standard' or 'spanish' style. peter is playing more tenor saxophone than before, mostly because he has got one he likes at last, a 'king marigaux' which was made by SML in paris, so now he plays SML soprano, alto and tenor saxes. the 'king marigaux' saxes are identical with SML gold medal mark 2's. meshmass are due to play the closing of sabine portela's exhiition of abstract canvasses at 3 fisher street, lewes, east sussex on saturday 3rd of september at about 7. we hope that next month's selection will be shorter (and easier to edit).