Experimental Frequencies

Acoustic Tales

Acoustic Tales...

Delayed until Jan 2011: Out of faint drone rumblings, an organ slowly ascends. The night is awash with a hospitable solemnity that the listener must ...

Away In A Manger

Away In A Manger...

Antonymes has created a wonderful short film that perfectly captures the spirit for the festive season ahead...

Black Swan – In 8 movements

Black Swan – I...

Black Swan the musician should not be confused with the forthcoming film of the same name. For while the Darren Aronofsky movie is essentially a ...

Pollen Trio – 230509

Pollen Trio – ...

I’ve elected to not follow too closely the “Best Of” lists that pop up at this time of year. I love reading them, but I ...

Cezary Gapik – Contrast I

Cezary Gapik –...

Contrast I is the latest work from Polish experimental musician Cezary Gapik and comes via White Box Recordings, the first in a trilogy of the ...

Antonymes: Top 20 of 2010 Pt. 1

Antonymes: Top 20 of...

Ian Hazeldine (Antonymes) has been kind enough to take time out from his schedule to put together his 'best of' 20 albums of 2010. ...

The Long Road – Interview With Liz Harris (Grouper)

The Long Road –...

Liz Harris covered a lot of ground this year...

Tiny Vipers Session

Tiny Vipers Session...

Jesy Fortino performs tracks 'Dreamer' and 'Development' taken from the album 'Life On Earth', released through Sub Pop Records in 2009...

Win A Years Subscription To The Wire Magazine

Win A Years Subscrip...

As the year draws to an end we thought one last competition to win a years subscription to The Wire Magazine was a good idea...

Wood

Wood...

For over 5 years, Dragon's Eye Recordings has continued to introduce listeners to some of the most innovative and uncompromising emerging and mid-career ...

Rural Colours Subscription Pack 6

Rural Colours Subscr...

The latest subscription pack from Rural Colours has arrived and contains yet another three high quality experimental works for listeners to enjoy...

A Setting Sun – Flower Garden Of Rejuvenation

A Setting Sun –...

A Setting Sun is the solo project of electronic musician Jay Bodley whose January release Flower Garden of Doom consists of five tracks of beautifully ...

Grouper – Hold/Sick

Grouper – Hold...

There’s no denying the aching beauty in the music of Grouper aka Liz Harris from Portland, Oregon...

Archers By The Sea: They were floating over the mountain, they were kings

Archers By The Sea: ...

French artist Vincent Caylet has been active in the experimental underground scene for some time now. Beginning his solo career (to the best of my ...

Peter Broderick and Johan G. Winther – Re: Create Series Vol 1

Peter Broderick and ...

This is the first in a series of releases from Tendervision Records where two artists are paired off, each writes a song and the other ...

Gimu – Beluga

Gimu – Beluga...

For the final Audio Gourmet EP release of the year, we welcome a little-known sound designer from Brazil called Gimu. His earlier music ...

Man With A Video Camera

Man With A Video Cam...

Esko Lönnberg has left his middle-class job in Sweden and returned to his hometown of Pori, Finland. Now he has taken up filmmaking. His ...

This Land

This Land...

Official video for "This Land" by Siskiyou. Band founder Colin Huebert bikes through his hometown of Vancouver while shooting a reel of 8mm ...

Sakura/Muskeg Parade

Sakura/Muskeg Parade...

From the 46'00 live concert video filmed at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) in May 2010...

Marta Mist – Personalities & Relationships

Marta Mist – P...

As a small collective, we had to pick songs which represented different facets of our personalities and our relationships. - Marta Mist

Elfin Saddle – Wurld

Elfin Saddle –...

Constellation are a label that deeply intrigue us and one we will be working with closely throughout 2011 and beyond. Whilst we get cracking on ...

Arborea Live Session with Helena Espvall & Jesse Sparhawk

Arborea Live Session...

We clocked this stunning collaborative live session last week on Youtube and was hoping it would find it's way to Vimeo at some point. Thankfully ...

Maps and Diagrams/Estela Lamat – The worst of us

Maps and Diagrams/Es...

“The worst of us” is a collaborative effort between UK-based sound artist Maps and Diagrams and Chilean poet Estela Lamat...

Celer – Salvaged Violets

Celer – Salvag...

Salvaged Violets is the latest release from Celer, a work which once again highlights the twin themes of beauty and tragedy that personify Will Thomas ...

Charles-Eric-Charrier & Cyril Secq Interview

Charles-Eric-Charrie...

So impressed were we with our advance copy of Experimedia’s “Silver” by Charles-Eric Charrier that we immediately asked to be able to speak to him ...

Secret Chords & Apparitions

Secret Chords &...

Imagine yourself in deep sleep. Very deep sleep. Unaware of your surroundings, unable to control images built from memories, unable to distinguish your dreams from ...

Home Normal Xmas Live Party

Home Normal Xmas Liv...

Friday 17th December Home Normal will be having a bit of a knees up in Angel, London. Playing at The Wilmington Arms will be: guitar ...

Small Town Boredom: Notes from the Infirmary

Small Town Boredom: ...

Artists thrive on emotional extremes, moments of unprecedented joy or crushing sadness. It is easier to transcribe these feelings into music. Middle grounds are much ...

FareWell Poetry: As true as troilus

FareWell Poetry: As ...

As you may have guessed from previous posts we are big fans of French outfit FareWell Poetry. Here is a new version of their live ...

Beggin’ Your Pardon Miss Joan – Edges

Beggin’ Your Pardo...

It’s always nice when you find that one final great album at year’s end. It’s even better when that album is one you had somehow ...