singing several Billie Holiday songs either solo or alongside Sandra Nkaké. In 2005, Greaves released an album under the banner Maman with Jef Morin and Morin's partner in Les Recycleurs de Bruits, Nico Mizrahi (machines). Around the same time, he began work on what would turned out to be a decade-long series of projects based on the work and life of French poet Paul Verlaine (1844–1896). He made two albums of his own settings of Verlaine poems with a decidedly un-retro aesthetic conceived in cooperation with Les Recycleurs de Bruits : Greaves Verlaine (2008) and Greaves Verlaine 2 (2011). In addition to his Roxongs bandmates, the album featured regular collaborators Jeanne Added (vocals) and Scott Taylor (accordion, trumpet), as well as appearances by Karen Mantler and Dominique Pifarély. Concerts promoting these albums saw Greaves accompanied by line-ups ranging from just Taylor on accordion to a full electric septet. In 2012, Greaves embarked on yet another Verlaine project, this time composing to an original libretto by Emmanuel Tugny and teaming up with a trio of French vocalists, Elise Caron, Jeanne Added and Thomas de Pourquery. Verlaine Gisant was premiered in December 2012 at Le Triton following a residency at the venue, was subsequently performed at the Orléans Jazz Festival and at Les Sables-d'Olonnes, and a studio album was released in April 2015 on Bruno Letort's Signature label, coinciding with a live broadcast of a performance at the Maison de la Radio. Following the death of Henry Cow bassoonist/oboist and composer Lindsay Cooper in 2013, Greaves, along with surviving members of the group and other Cooper collaborators, participated in three memorial concerts of her music in England and Italy in late 2014. Subsequently, Greaves took part in some performances by Half The Sky, a smaller ensemble formed by pianist Yumi Hara and featuring other Henry Cow alumni. Greaves has also played fully improvised sets with Fred Frith and Chris Cutler in 2019, and with the addition of Tim Hodgkinson in 2022 the resulting quartet, still performing exclusively improvised sets, has adopted the monicker Henry Now. Another improvising unit including fellow Henry Cow alumni is The Artaud Beats, formed in 2009 and consisting of Greaves, Cutler, Geoff Leigh and Yumi Hara. Greaves is also a special guest in French flautist Michel Edelin's Echoes of Henry Cow project. Greaves recites texts (mostly by Cutler) over variations on Henry Cow and Art Bears music re-interpreted