Past and future intertwine in Alex Emslie's powerful prismatic video for Jack Cheshire's "Let Go Lightly". Haunting revolving landscapes, cityscapes, elemental forces and apocalyptic future visions blend and blur amid perpetual change and transformation. Straddling darkness and light, this piece is an impressionistic meditation on change, technology, life 'out of balance' and the mysterious power of nature.
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Freq has been online in various forms since 1 April 1998; this iteration has been around as of 2010, with an archive of older material available.
Coming to Repeater Radio on 21 December 2022 from 11:00 GMT / UTC will be a rewind and more of the Live and Indirect Sessions co-curated by Freq and Drift of Signifieds so far this year, plus a few extras such as ekslusive Ekoclef and Ekoplekz live sets too. Discord link for the lounge. Schedule (may be altered at the last minute!): Time Artist Session 11:00:00 DJ Rottenmeats Mix 1 […]
This time (more or less) next week will see the launch of a Freq channel on Repeater Radio. UPDATE: The whole thing will be repeated from noon GMT on Sunday 26 December 2021; see below for times. We’re launching with a of the winter solstice, from 12:00 to 03:00 (GMT). There will be all manner of participants, many offering up live and indirect sessions – where the music […]
A night landscape of soil, mud, forests. Walls of intricate vegetation. A dense, humid atmosphere. Rain. The smell of swamps, rotten wood, decaying leaves. All senses are overwhelmed, and yet we’re not sure of what we hear: is it natural or artificial, almost mechanical?
From the band: Cult Italian band Larsen will be releasing a new collaborative album on 11 November 2021 via Torino-based publisher Witty Books. Over the course of 2020 Larsen released a series of monthly sessions of improvised music. It was a project intended as a sonic real-time documentary made available to their supporters on the Patreon platform.
The latest video linked to Gagarin‘s epic Great North Wood album, released on Geo Records in 2020, of arboreal wonder and wanderings comes from USRNM, AKA Stuart Bowditch. The video, shot by Stuart, takes the viewer on a glide on a path through the trees as the music unwinds in pumping dancefloor-friendly fashion
Carton Records and Coax Records have jointly released Betel by French musician JF Riffaud, also known as RIFO. The album draws on the music of sub-Saharan Africa such as that of Sunny Ade or Flamme Kapaya as much as being influenced by American primitivists and minimalists from John Fahey to Tony Conrad via Morton Subotnick.
The next step for Invictus Hi-Fi after the release of their Market Deities album earlier in 2021 is a video for the bonus track “Delete”.
Happy Robots Records have announced the release on 24 September 2021 of the new full-length album from Mood Taeg, about whose Exophora disc Mr Olivetti noted “an obvious love for all things motorik and German-influenced, but reflected in a modern and rather charmingly effervescent style that brims with repetitive joy” at Freq. The title of their second album, Anaphora
Named after Jean-Luc Godard‘s classic of French new wave cinema, Breathless re-release their 1991 album Between Happiness And Heartache via Tenor Vossa on 16 July 2021 as a deluxe thirtieth anniversary edition on what they describe as “heartache pink” vinyl. The double a-side single of “Over And Over” and “Everything I See” comes out on 25 June, and the latter is a bonus track only available on the […]
Announced today by Bureau B: This box is the first virtually complete collection of FAUST works from the years 1971-1974. In addition to the debut album referenced by Morris, it includes the 1972 album So Far, the legendary 1973 Virgin UK release The Faust Tapes (“Some chose to play frisbee with the LP, others said it changed their lives” as Jean-Hervé Peron noted), Faust IV and, for the […]
New York City-based artist Wolff Parkinson White has collaborated with Hayden Chisholm on a new self-released album, Off World, out from 14 May 2021. Of the record, they say: Close to a decade in the making, this highly anticipated collaboration between multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet Hayden Chisholm from New Zealand and German -born electronic artist Wolff Parkinson White from NYC finally sees the light of day.
Gagarin‘s The Great North Wood, released on Geo Records in late 2020, reflects on the ancient south London woodland of the same name. The track “Eskil” is premiered here in its “Green Shoots” remix, part of a series of what Graham Dowdall dubs “virtual 12″s”.
Off World, the studio project of Sandro Perri and Lorenz Peter (Corpusse, Processor) has so far released Volumes 1 and 2 of three planned LPs for Constellation, “rich in deconstructed melody, aleatory composition techniques, and interplay between acoustic and synthetic-electronic instrumentation”. Sandro says of their new video, premiered here today, in the label’s Corona Borealis series
Timeless Editions are publishing The Universe Is A Haunted House: COIL through their art and archives, a new 400-page full colour hardback book compiled from the personal archives of John Balance and Peter Christopherson. Conceived not only as a showcase of Coil’s much-admired album artwork, but also to offer a rare glimpse into their world
Gagarin AKA Graham Dowdall is a leading community music practitioner, expert in music and disabilities, and a lecturer at Goldsmiths in London, as well as a member of and contributor to groups as diverse as Suns Of Arqa, Rothko, Pere Ubu, Roshi ft. Pars Radio and Nico‘s band, among many others. His latest album The Great North Wood, out on Geo records, is inspired by the ancient woodland in south […]
Inspired by Luis Sepulveda, Noise of Trouble‘s album title Mis Sueños Son Irrenunciables, Obstinados, Testarudos y Resistentes acts as their statement for a record made under lockdown. Rethinking the many facets of the world outside my home, it came natural to put together the sound of my instruments, the rhythms I’m carrying inside and a compositional organization which found a comparison and stimulating lymph in between distanced interventions […]