UnseenForces is Airstar's debut release, a six-track acoustic mini-album, available on CD, which captures the spontaneity, intensity and intimacy conjured in the band's live performances.

Wheatley-based band Airstar have produced a mini-album packed with soaring harmonies and big choruses.

Airstar's demo is something quite amazing, opening with the title track 'Beautiful thing' which I have played consistently since receiving it. If only the charts were full of more songs like this - it beams proud and uses electronics in a most mainstream and likeable way. The tune resounds in my head and later I find myself singing it and thinking damn this song is really good, who is it again?! Someday is another beautiful love song, the vocals are a little less forceful but they glide and soar.

The chorus isn't as anthemic as 'Beautiful thing' but it's not offensive and the ending makes up for it, with percussion which sounds similar to a baby's chime, making the lullaby sensation almost tangible. Chromium, has insightful lyrics such as "we surround ourselves with precious things, to cover up our pain", but the music soon becomes a bit too repetitive.

I'm unsure of the inspiration behind the song but the lyrics and the big chorus - with its build up of guitar riffs, harmonies and grooves - give the listener everything Airstar initially promised. In 1989, he released The Man With the Blue Post-Modern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar. In a Rolling Stone interview that year, Bruce Springsteen cited Case as the songwriter he listened to most. A string of acclaimed albums has followed.

In between releasing his recent albums, Flying Saucer Blues (2000) and Beeline (2002), Case found time to curate a musical programme for the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and performed Beatles songs at the Hollywood Bowl with Sir George Martin. He also recently produced a Grammy-nominated tribute to his hero, Mississippi John Hurt, featuring Lucinda Williams, Beck, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Ben Harper and Taj Mahal. "I'm interested in roots, but I'm not interested in boundaries. I just try to put everything I love into the music," he explains.

Case will be joined by local band Airstar, who are set to delight the Delicatessen crowd once again with their keen sense of melody and exemplary songcraft in a performance marked by both intensity and intimacy. The usual Delicatessen trappings and the special ambiance we've come to expect promise another memorable evening of food for the soul. Airstar are a hidden treasure looking to be found.