Album Review: Trupa Trupa – Jolly New Songs
Trupa Trupa’s macabre poetic outlook has much in common with contemporary exponents of psychogeography, such as one Iain Sinclair, whose wanderings around London’s orbital networks elicit a meandering prose that seeks to uncover concealed essences of the city. Wanderlust also inhibits the work of this Polish four-piece, who hail from Gdansk. Like London, their city …
News: Tse Tse Fly Middle East London Debut
The music promoter and community arts organisation Tse Tse Fly Middle East will be making its London debut at IKLECTIK on Saturday 9th September. The night will feature a curated selection of experimental films, a Q&A with Tse Tse Fly founder Simon Coates and live performances from Kareem Samara (pictured), Dushume and Sonic Imperfections affiliates …
Interview: Trupa Trupa
Music as landscape: Trupa Trupa contemplating the poetry of place. Photo courtesy of the band. Trupa Trupa is a psychedelic no wave band from Gdansk, Poland. Their stylistic approach recalls work by bands like Shellac, Swans, Slint and Beak>. There is such discordance, tension and intensity in their compositions that it feels like the band …
News: Black Lips Billed To Headline Fluffer Pit Party
If getting deaf and sweaty at a rock & roll warehouse party isn’t your idea of a great Saturday night out, then read no further. Atlanta’s hottest leather-clad garage rock exports, the Black Lips, are billed to headline Fluffer Records‘s latest Pit Party. In true squat rave style, the secret East London location isn’t revealed until the day of the …
Say Psych: One Unique Signal Interviewed
Like a debilitating onslaught of necrotizing fasciitis, One Unique Signal have been carving away complicated lesions on the traumatised skin of the psychedelic music scene for around fourteen years now. Their distinctive take on guitar-driven repetitive noise music has been gaining serious traction among the psych faithful and certainly serves as a welcome antithesis to the slavish kaleidoscopic posing …
Album Review: Rangda – The Heretic’s Bargain
The Heretic’s Bargain is rasping and raw, like a head with tailing entrails, flying through a midsummer evening, on its way to effectuate mass infanticide. Rangda consists of Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance) and Chris Corsano (Bjork, Evan Parker), none of whom are strangers to exploring the psychedelic …
Film Review: In Search Of A Lost Paradise
The Russian expressionist painter, Oscar Rabine, is known best to the anglophone world for being the primary instigator of the infamous Bulldozer Exhibition of 1974. However, it is his late wife, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, who is the subject of this documentary. Framed against her family life, state persecutions and other tribulations, In Search Of A Lost Paradise …
Live Review: Non Plus Ultra at Cafe Oto, 05/02/16
Our culture is obsessed with looking at the past. If culture had a body, it would be contorted, bending over its own limbs, straining to catch a glimpse, through the crevices of its wrinkled, obese flesh, of the jagged traces it had left behind. This behaviour is completely understandable. Not only is modern life rubbish, …
Festival Review: London Contemporary Music Festival
Spreading a festival over seven murky London nights is an ambitious move. Not only is it near-impossible to attend every single event, but one also gets an overbearing sense that the programme will wear itself thin over the week. Not so. Even though some work photographed better than it sounded and certain performances engaged the …
See: Lisa Busby releases new visuals for Hollow Blown Egg
Known to many in the London underground sound art scene as one half of Sleeps In Oysters and an active collaborator with Rutger Hauser, artist Lisa Busby works on the periphery of pop craftsmanship. Bold and reflective, her latest track, Hollow Blown Egg, utilises playback media improvisations to great effect. Generously building a progressively stark atmosphere over its three-and-a-half …