“I don’t want to sound like a w****r, but I’m more of a mystic than a musician”: She’s worked with Courtney Love and Radiohead’s producer. Now Bethia Beadman is embarking on a baritone guitar adventure rooted in Sanskrit and mantra

Bethia Beadman sits on a chair beside her Fender Jazzmaster.

She may have worked with Courtney Love playing keys in Hole, or alongside bands such as Radiohead and Depeche Mode while stationed in the studio with legendary producer Nigel Godrich, but it’s Bethia Beadman’s output as a solo artist that truly astonishes the senses.

The 11 tracks that make up new album, Kitten Feel, have a hypnotising effect. Think swampy primal energy and artful enigma, beaming into the soul like an abstract blues from a long-distant planet where the language is familiar but the message is curiously esoteric…