Virtuoso guitarist, session player and one-time Stone Roses member Aziz Ibrahim is releasing his long-lost debut album, some 25 years after it was first recorded, and playing a few select showcase live gigs to give audiences the chance to finally hear it.

The long-player ‘Lahore To Longsight’ is named to reflect his father’s journey from Pakistan to the Manchester suburb of Aziz’s birth, and is a musical melting pot the musician simply describes as ‘Asian blues’. His own musical experience is similarly mixed – having first played in Simply Red, he’s also collaborated with a wide range of bands and musicians, from indie superstars – he co-wrote a number of Ian Brown’s early solo hits – to prog rock heavyweights such as Marillion, Asia and Steven Wilson.

That prodigious talent, and the album’s mix of Asian and indie influences, was even enough to warrant Manchester Museum’s South Asia Gallery putting it on display, even though it had rarely been heard and never officially released, and has contributed to the record’s almost mythical status.

Now restored and remastered, the fascinating 13-track collection, which features star contributors including the Roses’ Reni and Mani, Paul Weller, Talvin Singh, and Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce of The Smiths, will get one of its first live airings at this launch event at The Tin Music and Arts venue in Coventry’s canal basin, and should make for a fascinating night for music fans, indie or otherwise.

Gig-goers are advised to get their early as the show kicks off with support act Standard Sound Project at 6.30pm and Aziz at 7.15pm, followed by the venue’s regular Kitchen Club Indie Disco at 9pm.

For more details and tickets visit thetinmusicandarts.org.uk