Experimental Frequencies

Philippe Petit And Friends: A Scent of Garmambrosia

Philippe Petit And F...

‘A Scent of Garmambrosia’ is an unsettling record. Clouded in a thickness of electronic processing, the music crafted by post-classical composer Philippe Petit in conjunction ...

Plinth – Music For Smalls Lighthouse

Plinth – Music...

‘Music For Smalls Lighthouse’ is a quite remarkable record. It represents not only a wonderful creative output by its recording artist, but also continues a ...

Klima – Serenades & Serinettes

Klima – Serena...

Serenades & Serinettes marks the second album by Klima or Angèle David-Guillou, a musician much revered for her 2007 self titled debut. While that album ...

An Evening With Second Language

An Evening With Seco...

Last Thursday evening, Second Language showcased a portion of their varied artist roster at their first label night. Taking place at The Slaughtered Lamb which ...

Marcus Fischer Monocoastal

Marcus Fischer Monoc...

Monocoastal is the latest release from label 12k, and comes courtesy of sound artist Marcus Fischer. A multimedia performer who sometimes performs as map~map or ...

Machinefabriek, Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra, Liondialer – That it Stays Winter Forever

Machinefabriek, Klee...

‘That it Stays Winter Forever’ is a group of three individual recordings by artists Machinefabriek, Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra and Liondialer...

An Evening With Peter Broderick, Bills Wells/Stefan Schneider (Pianotapes) & Tsukimono

An Evening With Pete...

Upon entering St. Giles in the Fields, one can immediately sense both its beauty and its presence as a venue. Golden ornaments fill the church ...

Peter Broderick – Music For Contemporary Dance

Peter Broderick R...

‘Music for Contemporary Dance’ sees label Erased Tapes group together two commissions that multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick was assigned to compose for a set of dance ...

Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect

Brian McBride –...

The honeybee decline has been well documented by the press since mass awareness on the issue began to emerge over the past decade. Among all ...

Winter’s Day: Winter’s Day 7″

Winter’s Day: ...

This new ep from Winter’s Day introduces us to the exciting, if somewhat unlikely pairing, of Aaron Martin and Dawn Smithson...

An afternoon with aus, Patrick Farmer, Danny Norbury and Jo Mango

An afternoon with au...

Daylight Music, which occurs on Saturdays at the Union Chapel, is a unique platform for showcasing new and existing talent to audiences wanting to start ...

Recluse All Dayer (Review)

Recluse All Dayer (R...

Recluse, up to recently, was a monthly night that took place at The Fleapit on Columbia Road, East London. Specialising in electroacoustic music, the event ...

Brave Timbers – For Everyday You Lost

Brave Timbers –...

Change is upon us. Those long, drawn out, dusty summer days are slowly being replaced by a lower sun, a cooling air and a transfer ...

Ilyas Ahmed – Between Two Skies/Towards The Night 2xLP

Ilyas Ahmed – ...

‘Between Two Skies’ and ‘Towards the Night’ are going some way to position themselves as pieces of musical treasure. The two albums by Pakistan-born Portlander ...

Alpha-ville Festval Day 1

Alpha-ville Festval ...

Last night marked the opening of a new international festival for digital arts, music and culture. Alpha-ville, which concludes this evening, has assembled a collection ...

Richard A Ingram – Piano Test

Richard A Ingram ...

‘Piano Test,’ a short collection of prepared and treated piano pieces, is a new cassette only release from musician Richard A Ingram. With its limited ...

SL06 Various Vertical Integration

SL06 Various Vertica...

The digital era has brought a wealth of conveniences to music. The faster, cheaper distribution methods coupled with a broad captive audience have allowed music ...

Sophie Hutchings – Becalmed (Review)

Sophie Hutchings ...

The work of the solo pianist has gained momentum of late and certainly within the ambiguous genre that is modern classical music...

Mark Kozelek Live At The Union Chapel

Mark Kozelek Live At...

A solitary guitar rests on stage, as an anticipating crowd fill the pews of the Union Chapel. Some audience members’ split from their friends to ...

Goldmund – Famous Places

Goldmund – Fam...

Album Of The Week: Keith Kenniff follows up 2008’s “The Malady of Elegance” with the third album under his Goldmund guise. Where Helios, his other ...

Charles Hayward Recorded

Charles Hayward Reco...

Charles Hayward, for those who don’t know, is a veteran drummer and innovator of modern music. One of the founding members of experimental rock group, ...

Aaron Martin – Night Erased Them All

Aaron Martin –...

Aaron Martin’s new record “Night Erased Them All,” is another fine addition to his already expansive body of work. Proceeding “Worried About The Fire” which ...

Landings Book & CD – 2nd Edition

Landings Book &...

The Landings 96-page book + 70 minute CD is now available in a beautiful new 2nd Edition. This repressing of the book features new ...

2001: A Space Odyssey Featuring Philharmonia Orchestra and Philharmonia Voices (Review)

2001: A Space Odysse...

Live music and film have a long, collaborative history. Since the first piano notes were played in December 1895 to accompany projections of films by ...

The Berlin Mission

The Berlin Mission...

Last week I travelled to Berlin for a short 2 day break. I had always been intrigued by Berlin as a city, however had never ...

Beyond Berkeley Guitar

Beyond Berkeley Guit...

The city of Berkeley, nestled in the San Francisco Bay Area of California became synonymous with the acoustic guitar thanks to the emergence of players ...

F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm – Music For Lovers, Music Versus Time

F.S.Blumm & Nil...

“Music For Lovers, Music Versus Time” is an album that is in many ways reflective of its title...

Tim Hecker & Chihei Hatakeyama at Cafe OTO (Review)

Tim Hecker & Ch...

Last night, a warm, sticky May evening descended on East London. Dalston, once a community filled with working men’s clubs, an area tarnished by a ...

Peter Broderick – Three Film Score Intakes

Peter Broderick R...

Peter Broderick is a musician who needs little introduction. Establishing himself as a household name within this subculture of music we love is no mean ...

Vashti Bunyan @ The Union Chapel (Review)

Vashti Bunyan @ The ...

The Union Chapel is a grade II listed church found just off Highbury Corner in Islington, North London. Constructed between 1874 and 1877, it is ...