Funky chillmeister Simon Green, better known as Bonobo, brings his full band to Plymouth next month as part of a nationwide tour supporting third album Days To Come'.

Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases.

And "Days To Come" shows a new structural awareness growing from this, a feeling for the song form and the gradual build which raises it way above the work of many of his contemporaries and cries out for him to achieve the kind of mainstream success that has talent has long hinted at.

Bonobo's debut album, "Animal Magic," was released by Brighton label TruThoughts just as the journalistic vogue for "chill out" music began to peak, the Observer said "anyone in search of the ultimate summer chill-out album should buy this debut." Having rejected the advances of more than one major label, Green decided to sign with Ninja Tune and for them he produced "Dial M For Monkey," a brooding and intricate record which not only continued his move away from traditional sampling techniques, but broadsided the idea that he only made music for people to listen to in transcendental bubble bath yurts. Now, with "Days To Come," the processes and techniques he developed on the transitional "Dial M" have reached fruition, mainly (though not solely) because "Days" could be seen as a collection of songs.

With his fantastic band (in which he plays bass and with whom he has headlined the Big Chill) set to transform these studio pieces into living, breathing music, the stage is set for Simon Green to step up. The days to come look bright indeed, but sad and beautiful and lovely, too.

Bonobo play The Hub, Plymouth on February 11.Tickets are £10 in advance from www.seetickets.com 0871 2200260.