Thrill Jockey After the two recent collaborations in which Marisa Anderson took part, it is now her time to tackle another solo album, and using the momentum from those, has turned inward to articulate her thoughts and emotions at a time when she has been able to play live for […]
Monthly archives: October 2022
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Punkt Editions Punkt Editions is a new label curated by Jan Bang and Erik Honore. If you have any knowledge of those two names, then you will be expecting sound of a liminal nature that exists between planes with touches of jazz, electronica, ambient and more, but ever sounding like […]
Late Music For somebody so young, Sarah Davachi is incredibly prolific and for someone working in such a rarefied atmosphere, she has so many ideas and theories. Two Sisters, her latest double album, is an extraordinary collection of tonal pieces that take in strings, various pipe organs, trombones, voices, bells […]
Greyfade Few labels have such a defined remit as Greyfade, who for the last few years have released a steady stream of thoughtful academic works concerned with precision, process and sonic nuance. Following the heady splendour of last year’s Rag’sma by Christopher Otto and JACK Quartet, as well as label-boss […]
Discus Faith Brackenbury‘s violin playing is an absolute force of nature; at times like a dervish that seems to sweep straight from her heart and out in to the universe, unencumbered by structure or regime, just a natural flow like a river that heads onward. Her chance meeting with the […]
Constellation As Jessica Moss move further into her solo career, you can almost sense the natural barriers of artistic progress being lifted and set aside. Galaxy Heart feels as though she has discovered that musically anything is possible and with restrictions limiting personal interaction, it is down to her to […]
Temporary Residence Regular Temporary Residence artist and intimate pianist Bruno Bavota met Dutch singer songwriter Chantal Acda some years ago, but immediately figured that their respective styles would make for a significant collaboration. As is often the case over the last few years, the pandemic intervened and forced them into […]
Fuzz Club The Vacant Lots‘ intriguing mix of lo-fi ’80s synth sounds and doomed US street beats makes for a scuzzy but satisfying trawl through the downtown lights of New York’s underground. Having just read a book based around the NYC blackout of ’77, there was something quite fitting about […]
Constellation We were fortunate enough to have seen Esmerine a number of times many years ago and their chamber music / post-rock hybrid has a vitality of its own that translates well to the recorded format. I must confess to losing touch with them over the last little while, but […]
Rooster There was always something so cool and approachable about The Heads. As Bristol boys, you often saw them at shows there and quite regularly were served by Hugo Morgan over the counter of Replay (RIP even after all these years) and there was always something in the music that […]
Tier.debut Any group with a name like I Work In Communications has to be worth some of your time and with the title of Kiss My Emoji Ring, you kind of know that this album isn’t going to be anything too heavy. In fact, the album contains a veritable cornucopia […]
Impossible Objects Of Desire Brighton-based Fujiya & Miyagi have been plying their unique take on electronic music for the best part of twenty years. Slight Variations is about their tenth album and the fourth on their own label, and it is an intriguing mix of ’80s electronica crossed with funk, […]