Discus The two latest releases from Martin Archer‘s wonderful Discus label ply very different takes on the fluttering world of modern jazz.
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Adaadat Gather round, kiddies. I hope you are sitting comfortably, because it is time for the second instalment of Story Teller‘s Lovecraftian travelogues. After the first instalment’s gory tale of love and lust between the aristocracy and plant life, I at least had some idea that it wouldn’t necessarily be […]
Thrill Jockey Hot on the heels of last year’s Don’t Look Away, 2019 sees Alexander Tucker once again hunkering down on his own in the studio. Guild Of The Asbestos Weaver constructs tracks that employ his love of sci-fi and cosmic horror in a recognised song format, with all of […]
Courier Sound There is something so delightful about Courier Sounds‘ three-inch CD packages. There is real care in the colour scheme and presentation, while the sounds contained are little gems, ones that have to be carefully selected considering the relatively short duration of the format. Sound recordist/musician Kim Rueger trades […]
House Of Mythology Back in October of 2018, Ulver‘s presence was requested at a Red Bull Music event taking part in their home town of Oslo. The request was for new work of a drone type, something that might unfold over a length of time, but at a natural pace. […]
Modularfield Continuing Modularfield‘s desire to produce beautifully designed cassettes and to highlight new and innovative electronic artists, the first side of the latest release from Emme Moises feels more about discovery and less about actual contact — but the are possibly discoveries that shouldn’t be made and are far better […]
Front & Follow Manchester-based purveyors of forward-thinking sound adventures Front & Follow have called upon the services of bassist Michael Donnelly for the second part of their ongoing series Ex Post Facto. Here, artists are given an opportunity to prepare a new piece of work which is then presented alongside […]
Salisbury Plain 17 August 2019 The British Army first started to clear the settlements from Salisbury Plain after the First World War, but it was during the preparation for the D-Day landings in 1943 that they chose to evacuate all the residents from the little village of Imber, in the […]
Southern Lord Next up in Southern Lord‘s Caspar Brötzmann Massaker re-issue series are albums three and four, and once again on album three, the line-up has changed a little. Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore was originally released in 1992, three years after Black Axis, and Frank Neumeier had made way […]
Adaadat / TUTL Rutger Hauser‘s growth from their birth as an improv bass and drums duo in 2013 to the hydra-headed multimedia six-piece of 2019 has taken them from Lewisham in south London, where they were the unofficial house band of the Lumen Lake, to a point approximately 1,000 miles […]
Glacial Movements Line Spectrum‘s Bruma goes beyond music to the Earth’s inner workings; an inspired soundscape of tidal movement, the fabrication of fossils and the erosion of landscapes. The idyllic lapping of waves gradually subsumed by the roar of the surf as dolphins call is eventually dissolved in a wash […]
Church Ceilings Deaf Joe‘s long-player Love Stories is an attempt to convert some of his most cherished travel memories into a kind of series of ambient soundscapes, retaining those souvenirs in a more fulfilling and long-lasting way than a pile of unseen photographs and scattered postcards.
Upset The Rhythm The ceaseless band-hopping of the two Rachels has seen a five-year gap since the last Trash Kit album, and also the departure of Ros Murray and arrival of Gill Partington on bass. Bas Jan, Bamboo, Shopping and Sacred Paws have kept them plenty busy, but thankfully they […]
Castle Face I had a real soft spot for the slightly psychotic electro-punk disco dust-up of Six Finger Satellite and was sorry when they called it a day both times, so it is good to hear that Rick Pelletier is back on the scene with Dare Matheson and Jon Loper, […]
Crammed Discs Band Apart were a short-lived US/French duo that blossomed at a time that put them in the eye of the New York No-Wave storm. Vocalist Jayne Bliss was a poet who had been performing with various members of the US avant-garde such as Bill Laswell and Don Cherry. On […]
Hubro The title and track names for Exoterm‘s first album read like stage directions or parts of a screenplay, and the atmospheres that they produce over the course of the six tracks on Exits Into A Corridor are dark and foreboding but suffused with a giddy mania.
Courier The latest beautifully packaged release from the ever-reliable yet increasingly diverse micro label Courier is the four-track EP Silences‘ from south-east England-based duo of the same name, James Green and Nick Dawson. Intended as the first in an ongoing series, the recording took place on one day in Southend […]
6 July 2019 Bristol This year, the Stolen Body-curated Astral Festival has chosen to spread itself over three of Bristol’s city centre venues. Thankfully, the Rough Trade sweatbox, the rather charming restaurant/bar at the Lanes and the grandiose SWX are all within a stone’s throw of one another. Unfortunately, the […]
Constellation What on earth could Lungbutter be? It sounds most unappealing. It kind of sounds oozy and uncomfortable, and I am not sure that describes this Montreal trio all that well — but on the other hand, there are elements that are oozy and some of Ky Brooks‘ rambling doesn’t […]
Bureau B Martin Rev‘s renown in the history of electronic music from the early ’70s onwards is generally as one half of avant-doo-wop street synth rebels Suicide, but as well as constructing the beats and sounds for the duo, Martin also had a sporadic solo career, the second and third […]