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Meet: Supersonic festival director Lisa Meyer ahead of July’s must-catch happening.
Festivals are back and that’s important. Every festival, from gargantuan to the esoteric, has a community around it, they have become part of our folklore, part of our cultural clock, a marker in the year, a celebration of a certain thing that happens over and over. Relationships build between a festival and its people, the …
Album Review: Jeff Mills – Mind Power Mind Control
___________________________ The modern age has brought with it unprecedented social dilemmas. The world has shrunk thanks to the internet. Having a wealth of information at our fingertips has also flooded our minds with gargantuan amounts of data that the brain sometimes finds difficult to process. We live within the constant media bombardment in a vicious …
PREMIERE: Montreal post-rock trio Yoo Doo Right emphatically kick against the pricks on thunderous new album
Barely a year since they released their debut LP, Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose, Canadian trio Yoo Doo Right are back with their second album, on which their towering, politically charged experimental rock soars to new heights. Trailed by two singles earlier in the year – one of them a whopping 17 minutes …
PREMIERE: A.M. Boys stream their gorgeous debut album ‘Distance Decay’ ahead of release tomorrow
Back in March, we lifted the lid on the impending debut album from Brooklyn duo A.M. Boys. It’s a hell of a grower and we fell in love on first listen, so to say we’re delighted to be streaming Distance Decay in full ahead of its release tomorrow is putting it lightly. Here’s what the …
PREMIERE: TWÏNS thinks there’s ‘Something About Alice Coltrane’ on instrumental tribute to jazz pioneer
Berlin-based Miro Denck, otherwise known as TWÏNS, has a new record arriving at the end of the month (pushed back from April). He’s shared three songs from The Human Jazz already, and today unveils a loosie that pays tribute to Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, tipping the hat to (and rearranging) a certain piece of hers in …
Album review: Sam A La Bamalot – Reminisce –
“How does it feel to reminisce? That was something I wanted to try to capture in soundwaves. I tend to reminisce a lot. About the good and bad parts in the past, and everything in between. I try to remember which specific parts in my life made me who I am today. Thinking about those …
New Track: Tegh & Adel Poursamadi probe electro-acoustic possibilities with Ijād ایجاد from soon come album Ima ایما
From the burgeoning expanse of Iran’s electronic and experimental soundscape comes the latest project from practitioner/sound artist Shahin Entezami aka Tegh. Collaborating with fellow Tehran resident, violinist Adel Poursamadi, a player steeped in classical Iranian music, the pair are set to release the intensely emotive Ima ایما album via Injazero Records (due 22nd July). As …
Album Review: Quayola/Seta – Transient : an evocative debut album from these multi-media originals.
Acclaimed media artist Quayola is a visualiser who works within the confluence of sound and vision. As well as his extensive globe-trotting catalogue of solo exhibitions he has collaborated with Jamie XX, Plaid and the late, great Mira Calix, converging his imagery with their soundscapes. More recently he has paused and re-focused, taking what feels …
Album Review: José Medeles – Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems : a stunning ‘tribute’ to John Fahey’s musical spirit.
So what do you make of tribute albums? Are they places to be seen, a rag bag of cover versions by a bunch of people who have nothing in common except convenient admiration? Well ‘Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems’ by José Medeles may pay homage to John Fahey but there’s a gulf between this album …
Track/Video: T. Gowdy previews ‘Vidisions’ from new album ‘Miracles’ –peak kinetic motivation.
Sometimes electronic music can get short circuited by its own intellectualism, where high concepts and technical processes become the focus. Canadian music producer and audio-visual artist Timothy Gowdy’s work may take the profound as a springboard and it certainly involves a fair share of technological high jinks but these aren’t the defining features. What makes …