Talvihorros: Live Se...
At the end of 2011 Hibernate Recordings and Home Normal put on a spectacular gig in Dalston, London. It was a great opportunity to finally ...
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, ...
Nova Scotian Arms: C...
You may or may not know that the stunning new album 'Cult Spectrum' from Nova Scotian Arms was released this week on Digitalis. Whilst we get ...
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 ...
Stephan Mathieu / Ta...
Last November, Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Deupree were invited to play together at the Semibreve festival in Braga. As I was covering the festival for ...
Qluster: The Low Dow...
It would probably take a full book to write about legendary ambient/avant-garde collective Kluster formed by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius and Conrad Schnitzler in 1969. ...
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. ...
Thunder May Have Rui...
It's a rare thing when we look to our readers for some kind of financial support in regards to other artist/label projects, but I hope ...
Film Scores Vol. I: ...
Christina Vantzou presents the first in a new series of mixes that will see artists selecting various film scores that have inspired their career in ...
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 ...
The New World...
Here's an absolute corker of a video directed and edited by U.K. musician and filmmaker Frederick Lloyd that also features poetry from Matt Finney. The ...
Antonymes – Me...
Fond memories of 2011: Another great year for music and this mix captures some of my favourites. This isn't really a best of 2011, and apologies ...
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, ...
Tony Conrad: Live Se...
Tony Conrad is considered one of the first "minimal" composer/performers, associated in his early period with La Monte Young, John Cale, Henry Flynt and legendary ...
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 ...
Andrew Boats –...
Not really a mix but more of an old school mixtape, the kind you would make for girls in the hope of securing illicit lip ...
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 ...
The Colour Of Long D...
North Wales; Spokane, Washington; Perth, Western Australia; 20 December 2011. Hidden Shoal Recordings presents ‘The Colour Of Long Days’, a companion track to the recently ...
Iron: Dragon’s...
The release of Iron marks the sixth anniversary of Yann Novak relaunching Dragon’s Eye Recordings, the record label originally created by his father Paul Novak ...
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 ...
Simon Finn – P...
Hidden by the night, hold up your dream And be free - take flight No one may watch you in... ...Dreams don't be frightened by what you might ...
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 ...
