The Dalston Session...
For a few years now, Cafe Oto and The Vortex Jazz Club have been two of the most exciting venues in East-London gaining a fully ...
Ilyas Ahmed – ...
There’s something about the music of Ilyas Ahmed that seems to prompt reviewers to say contradictory things. One review describes it as “completely THERE”, while ...
Birchall / Cheetham ...
Bob Dylan's almost annual nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature receives predictable resistance. Popular music is the result of months of crafting and rehearsal, ...
Muhr – Dream D...
The third release from Montreal’s Les Enregistrements Variables comes courtesy of label co-founder Vincent Fugere under his Muhr guise. With its evocative track titles, Dream ...
Marcus Fischer ̵...
I enjoy listening to a wide range of music, but it’s rare that I come across something that completely changes my understanding of how music ...
The Boats – Ba...
It’s 2k12 and here we go with The Boats 2.0 on 12k. Actually, for Craig Tatersall and Andrew Hargreaves this is more like incarnation 3.5. ...
Nova Scotian Arms / ...
An elder's hand running its fingers through quicksand - trapped by pressure, fighting to form a fist and punch its way out. Re-listening to "Navigation ...
Matthew Shaw –...
It could reasonably be argued that to truly distill the essence of a physical location into sound is perhaps one of the key challenges for ...
Windy and Carl ̵...
Listening to the new release from husband-and-wife duo Carl Hultgren and Windy Weber is like being enveloped in various kinds of cloud - sometimes drifting, ...
Willamette – A...
For those who have been following Fluid lately, the name of Willamette will be very familiar. Their recent debut ‘Echo Park’ was indeed hailed by ...
The Boats – Do...
Ever since "Sleepy Insect Music", Andrew Hargreaves and Craig Tattersal have shown a deft touch - harnessing guitar, violin, beats and tape loops that poke ...
Cafe OTO Session: A....
An odd night at Cafe OTO, which kicked off later than usual after a chemical spillage from next door brought the whole street to a ...
Stuzha – Siber...
Behind every country lies another country, a land of memory and myth. Because this hidden country has a hold on the imagination, it is often more ...
Trent Reznor / Attic...
You really have to admire Trent Reznor's staying power... After writing, closing, and burning the book on industrial dance, he seemed to coast for years. The ...
Quinn Walker: Dead B...
Consisting of six mostly short pieces, Quinn Walker's 'Dead Bird Sing' is the latest in the post card series released through the ever consistent Hibernate ...
Christina Vantzou: N...
A remix album is a little like borrowing a book from the library and finding, with each turn of the page, the marks left by ...
Pleq / Hiroki Sasaji...
Time & Language is an album by three artists from different countries who recorded the album by emailing each other their contributions. All three of ...
Aki Onda / Alan Lich...
Back in November, Aki Onda (cassettes) and Alan Licht (guitar) played a two day residency at Cafe OTO as part of the London International Festival ...
Humble Bee / The, E ...
The cover of the book reads “The Franciscans – Love”. Inside, yellowed pages of text: the Hornbill, the Greater Bird of Paradise, the Sea Otter, ...
Sharron Kraus, Fursa...
In the male dominated world of electroacoustic music, one often has to venture into alternative folk territory to enjoy the voice of female musicians and ...
Supersonic Festival:...
Supersonic's Friday line-up was an exercise in conceptual sound sonics - subtle nods to La Monte Young's long form piano works, emphasis on minimalism, experimentation. ...
Ido Govrin – T...
For a moment, the opening cello thrum of “The Revisit”, Ido Govrin’s new release for Cotton Goods, immediately brings to mind Hildur Guðdnadóttir’s 2009 album ...
Pascal Savy – ...
Pitchfork's recent feature by Simon Reynolds saw him adapting the tech-speak "digital maximalism", first coined in the book "Hamlet's BlackBerry", to affirm the developing culture ...
Saaad – Delaye...
There is this extraordinary scene towards the end of Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece “Pi” where the main character Maximillian, driven to the brink of madness by ...
Nils Quak – El...
Hot on the heels of Leonardo Rosado’s “Mute Words” comes another poetry-and-music release, this one from new Portland, Oregon label Clothbound Recordings. “Elegy For Seaweed” ...
Ólafur Arnalds: Liv...
A couple of months back, Nils Frahm released Felt, an album of absolute magnificence and one that demonstrated his ability to reach his listeners emotionally ...
Autistici – Am...
Following on from last year’s double-bill of archive material, David Newman, aka Autistici, brings us a marvellous collection of new works with his third album ...
Rembetronika: Cafe O...
Widely loved and widely misappropriated in Greece, Rebetika (or Rembetika) is music often referred to as the Greek blues and commonly associated to Fado from ...
Fennesz & Sakam...
Blue; a darker blue; pink; orange. Short stabs of paint, like light stabbing at squinting eyes, quick as water. Vertical lines cross river and sky, ...
Le Berger – On...
There are some qualities - some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and ...
