It does well to initially evoke its era. The film’s primary tones are garish neon and sweat on skin, like a grimy San Junipero, and the set design and cinematography do well to create sense of a place where macho sleaze permeates every nook and cranny of the town. The problem is the characters that inhabit it feel too archetypal, too lacking in the eccentricities and unpredictabilities that would make them believable.
Monthly archives: March 2024
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Not Applicable It is an intriguing combination; bass clarinet, electronics and percussion and one that renowned improvisers Lothar Ohlmeier, Isambard Khroustaliov and Rudi Fischerlehner utilise with equal parts aplomb and care, imbuing their sensitive imagery on In The Gloaming with space and time. The sounds initially are tentative, sussing out the spaces between one another then allowing them to merge when the time is right. The warm clarinet […]
What we don’t get, thankfully, is simply a The Body album with Dis Fig’s devastating wails atop their usual bludgeoning hellscapes. Instead, their two styles merge symbiotically, folding into each other in a totally seamless way. It makes sense. Both are interesting in creating blown-out, incinerated landscapes of noise, and walking the line between self-flagellation and catharsis.
Andy Watts Productions London Afrobeat Collective trumpeter Andy Watts clearly had some thinking to do over the pandemic period and chose that time to re-engage with his solo ideas. Inviting drummer Filippo Galli and utilising a bespoke cornet and a battery of effects pedals, he constructed a series of expansive rhythmic excursions that explore the outer limits of what can be accomplished with the instrument. Tying those to […]