Experimental Frequencies

Hammock – Departure Songs

Hammock – Depa...

Hammock’s Departure Songs is their most ambitious project yet. And this from a band whose last two full lengths are like the one-two punch of ...

Minamo and Lawrence English – A Path Less Travelled

Minamo and Lawrence ...

Originally released on CD by Room40 in 2010, the reissue of Minamo and Lawrence English’s “A Path Less Travelled” in a vinyl edition from Immune ...

Phrenology Live Session

Phrenology Live Sess...

A few weeks ago we highlighted a great looking gig (Phrenology), organised by Runningonair & Mountain 7. Gianmarco took the trip from London to Winchester ...

Alex Durlak: Sappy Fest 2012 Excerpt

Alex Durlak: Sappy F...

An excerpt from Alex Durlak's audio and visual installation at The Vogue Cinema in Sackville, New Brunswick during Sappy Fest 2012...

Glissando – The World Without Us

Glissando – Th...

Four long years have passed since Glissando last entered the world. Since then, they have reworked their live set-up and toured across the UK and ...

Gridshape: Interview With Franz Rosati, Francesco Saguto And Paolo Armao

Gridshape: Interview...

Gianmarco recently caught up with Franz Rosati, Francesco Saguto and Paolo Armao whilst in Milan to discuss Nephogram's latest offering 'Gridshape'...

The Narrows – There’s a Ghost in Me

The Narrows – ...

Seventy years later, Gertrude Chandler Warner's 1942 novel The Boxcar Children is still a favorite among young readers. The first in a series of what ...

Cory Allen – One

Cory Allen – O...

In the ever-growing and rather excellent discography of Austin-based composer Cory Allen, ‘One’ somehow comes across as quite an oddity. Not that its overall tone ...

Szymon Kaliski – From Scattered Accidents

Szymon Kaliski ̵...

From one perspective, the most important thing about Szymon Kaliski’s new record is what happens in the background. The difference in volume, frequency and tone ...

Aids, Drugs and Uncertainty: Ukraine

Aids, Drugs and Unce...

Ukraine has the highest concentration of HIV+ people anywhere in Europe. In 2006 it was declared the country experiencing the fastest acceleration of infection in ...

Snow Palms – Intervals

Snow Palms – I...

Now this is quite lovely. A collection of miniatures by David Sheppard, centred around a plethora of mallets - marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiels - and paired ...

Nils Frahm – Screws

Nils Frahm – S...

Pianist Nils Frahm suffered a painful accident after falling out of his bunk bed and breaking his left thumb - a disaster of epic proportions. ...

The Perfect Setting: Erased Tapes 5th Anniversary Tour At The Hackney Empire

The Perfect Setting:...

The beautiful, resplendent Hackney Empire, if not completely a true representation of Hackney as a whole and the surrounding area, played host to the Erased ...

Natural Snow Buildings – Night Coercion Into The Company of Witches

Natural Snow Buildin...

Their Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches was a gut check, a benchmark by which listeners could test their true preferences. Think you might ...

Joe Evans – Affected Piano

Joe Evans – Af...

The first five minutes of this album are a bit like what, I imagine, it must feel like to be hypnotised then slowly, ever so ...

Wist Records: Book Reports 007-009

Wist Records: Book R...

Wist Records’ ‘Book Reports’ series is an intriguing concept: each volume comprises a printed novella and a CD ‘sound report’ of music responding to it. ...

Aëla Labbé

Aëla Labbé...

We have admired the world of Aëla Labbé for a few years now. Her work could best be described as 'otherworldly', capturing atmospheres that run ...

New From Kitchen. Label

New From Kitchen. La...

One of our favourite record labels (Kitchen.) are all set for the cold winter months ahead with two wonderful releases waiting in the wings. Label ...

Road Movie

Road Movie...

Some time ago we featured/reviewed the fantastic 'Terrane' album by Gilded, released through Hidden Shoal Recordings. The short film above features the track 'Road Movie', ...

Visionary Kingdom

Visionary Kingdom...

Taking place across four evenings in late October and early November at the Arnolfini, Visionary Kingdom explores the dark arts of cinema and music in ...

A life times two

A life times two...

Every now and then you get to discover something that truly inspires... Parvin and Klaus are two people that did just that when we came ...

Discussion With Euan McMeeken…

Discussion With Euan...

Fred Nolan recently caught up Euan McMeeken, the man behind The Kays Lavelle, Glacis and the fantastic mini50 records...

Semibreve Festival 2012: Day Three

Semibreve Festival 2...

The festival highlights on Semibreve’s last day came from Ryoji Ikeda and Ben Frost who performed respectively the first and last set of the evening ...

Semibreve Festival 2012: Day Two

Semibreve Festival 2...

The Semibreve festival moved from Guimarães, heading for the magnificent Theater Circo, a nearly 100 year old concert hall located in the city centre of ...

Semibreve Festival 2012: Day One

Semibreve Festival 2...

Portugal was on the European cultural map this year as neighbouring cities Braga and Guimarães were respectively awarded the status of 2012 European Capital of ...

Ill Manors

Ill Manors...

It is one of the most flammable of the strawman arguments. You might hear it put this way: To decriminalise illicit drugs would mean allowing them ...

Shelby Lee Adams

Shelby Lee Adams...

Some time ago now we interviewed Jason Corder (offthesky) to find out more about his inspiration for the album 'The Beautiful Nowhere' released through Hibernate ...

Kyle Bobby Dunn: In Miserum Stercus

Kyle Bobby Dunn: In ...

Released earlier this year, Canadian composer Kyle Bobby Dunn’s ‘Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn’ (Low Point LP) was a veritable doorstop of ...

Wolf Maps – Landforms

Wolf Maps – La...

Ambient musicians, more than others, seem to have an obsession with landscapes. A sweeping vista is well described by a textured, elongated piece, its slow ...

Chris Dooks and Machinefabriek – The Eskdalemuir Harmonium

Chris Dooks and Mach...

Chris Dooks spent much of the 1990s directing TV documentaries, including a South Bank Show feature on Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner). Now a musician and ...