Experimental Frequencies

Say hello to Oliveray

Say hello to Olivera...

Oliveray will see its debut release 'Wonders' on December 12th, 2011. A nice little collection of eight musical pieces from label mates Nils Oliver Frahm ...

Christian Fennesz Interview

Christian Fennesz In...

The morning after a haunting performance at Semibreve Festival in Braga, I meet Christian Fennesz for coffee to talk about the concert, the recent EP ...

Carsten Nicolai Interview

Carsten Nicolai Inte...

A couple of weeks ago, German multi-disciplinary artist and Raster-Noton co-founder Carsten Nicolai played a mesmerizing audio-visual set at Semibreve Festival in Braga. I caught ...

Atlantis – Pollen Tube

Atlantis – Pol...

Here's a seriously cool vid for "Pollen Tube" taken from the excellent new Atlantis album "The Day The Music Died"...

Minamo – Documental

Minamo – Docum...

Originally a duo of Keiichi Sugimoto and Tetsuro Yasunaga, Minamo were joined ten years ago by guitarist Yuiichiro Iwashita and Namiko Sasamoto on saxophone and ...

Leonardo Rosado: Mute Words

Leonardo Rosado: Mut...

A few months ago I had the pleasure of reviewing “Dear and Unfamiliar”, Leonardo Rosado’s collaboration with Birds of Passage. Now the curator of FeedbackLoop ...

Postcards from Italy: Taranto – Francesco Giannico

Postcards from Italy...

Talking to Alessio Ballerini spurred my interest in the work of the Italian Archive of Sonic Landscapes, AIPS, which, while still in its infancy has ...

Moving Back In Time: Josh Vogel

Moving Back In Time:...

Wood... Something that we all come into contact with on almost a daily basis. There is something about it that produces a calming effect within ...

Seeljocht live at Le Guess Who Festival

Seeljocht live at Le...

Tilting on the edge of nowhere: a sea wind flattens the tufts of grass and blows sandy dust from dune to dune. Flatness, sky. Out ...

Qluster live at Semibreve

Qluster live at Semi...

Here's a superb sixty four minute film/live performance taken from the recent Semibreve Festival with words below by Fluid Radio writer Pascal Savy...

Marissa Nadler live at Le Guess Who Festival

Marissa Nadler live ...

“This is the first time I’ve ever done a show wearing jeans, in fifteen years of performing,” Nadler announces to the audience at Utrecht’s Tivoli ...

Ghedalia Tazartes: Troisieme mouvement

Ghedalia Tazartes: T...

Back in March, Ghédalia Tazartès played a stunning set at Cafe OTO. Here's another all too rare chance to catch him live on December 11, ...

Willamette – Echo Park

Willamette – E...

Now this is going to look like lazy reviewing. I'm going to start with a comparison that will have all ambient heads groaning in sheer ...

Music & Migration II

Music & Migrati...

New Year’s Day, 2011. The thin morning light stabs at your eyes as you survey the scene: drained bottles and glasses, crumpled cans, empty boxes ...

Matt Bartram – The Dreaming Invisible…….

Matt Bartram –...

"I had a sense of invisible, intangible powers at work, which caused this feeling of aerial stress" wrote Oliver Fox in 1962 regarding false awakenings, ...

20 Hz

20 Hz...

A Semiconductor work by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Audio Data courtesy of Carisma, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space ...

Nicola Ratti Live At Cafe Oto

Nicola Ratti Live At...

Nicola Ratti opened proceedings at Cafe OTO on 26.10.11 with a brief but highly calibrated set just over 15 minutes long. Having to forgo his ...

Semibreve Festival: Day Three

Semibreve Festival: ...

Vitor Joaquim and visual artist Hugo Olim played the opening set of the evening in the small auditorium, literally sharing the stage and working alongside ...

Semibreve Festival: Day Two

Semibreve Festival: ...

Christian Fennesz opened the second day of the Semibreve festival along with Portuguese video artist Pedro Maia whose contribution was certainly a wonderful and immersive ...

Semibreve Festival: Day One

Semibreve Festival: ...

From 11th-13th November, the first edition of Semibreve festival was held in the magnificent Theatro Circo, a nearly 100 year old theater located in the ...

Asleep in the Downlights

Asleep in the Downli...

In 2010, Hammock released a digital-only EP of outtakes from its fourth LP, Chasing After Shadows...Living with the Ghosts, containing four songs, two of which ...

Bending Time

Bending Time...

"A wise man that was once close to me said that living a life of being avant garde will lead to nothing but pain and ...

Magpie Magazine: Issue Five

Magpie Magazine: Iss...

The wonderful Magpie Magazine needs your help to get the next publication in print and ready for the New Year. Please do support these guys ...

Peter Broderick: Old Time / Solace In Gala

Peter Broderick: Old...

Let's start by stating a bold, undeniable truth, shall we?  Let's get it out of the way up front and we can move past it ...

Somatic Transport

Somatic Transport...

My definition of Ambient music develops like weather, but of certainty: I believe it's sound that fills gaps between somatic timbre. What's excluded by percussive ...

Wil Bolton – Quarry Bank

Wil Bolton – Q...

Women pouring through an open doorway, most seemingly in a hurry. One pauses, clutching a satchel, until a large skinny dog appears and barks at ...

To Feel The Night As It Really Is

To Feel The Night As...

Footage from 'Passage' (Karl Lemieux, 2007) and 'Satan Bouche Un Coin' (Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, 1968)...

Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim – Mic.Madeira

Simon Whetham &...

Simon Whetham and Hugo Olim were teamed up by Rafael Biscoito, the artistic director of the 2010 MadEiradig festival, for the creation of an audiovisual ...

William Fowler Collins – The Resurrections Unseen

William Fowler Colli...

William Fowler Collins’s last album for the Type record label, ‘Perdition Hill Radio’, played as a sort of alternate soundtrack to the 2007 film ‘No ...

Bones Made Out Of Bone

Bones Made Out Of Bo...

Official music video for the track 'Bones Made Out Of Bone', which appears on Damian Valles' album 'Skeleton Taxa' (2011, Drifting Falling)...