Music
EP: FRESH KILS & MAT LABATT – BUILDING A UFO 12″
Inspired by alien abductee and self proclaimed U.F.O. engineer, the late David Hammel, Fresh Kils & Mat Labatt set out to build their own spinning disc with Building A U.F.O., a symphony of beats in constant motion. It’s a wild ride of sounds & grooves, infectious as they are fleeting. A unique vinyl collaboration between …
Track: Inception Of Eternity – The Cradle Of Darkness
‘The Cradle of Darkness’ is the first track to be released by Inception Of Eternity from their second studio album, Last Exit To The Past . We hear falling rain and chanting as the track begins and we get a duet between between singer SINtana and guitarist Marc Vanderberg’s melodic lead playing, who’s flourishes bring some welcome …
See: Bill Callahan – ‘Cowboy’: a red-rimmed highlight from ‘Gold Record’ gains a visual dimension
WITH his fine and spontaneously realised album from the end of summer, Gold Record, now back in stock and available again on wax, Bill Callahan has stepped once more to the filmic breach with a brand new record for one of the most nuanced and moving nuggets sifted from that album, “Cowboy”. The song? Well. …
Track: Gazelle Twin ensures you won’t sleep easy with ‘The Well’, from the soundtrack to forthcoming British horror ‘The Power’
WITH her seductively dark beckon to the dark sides of a dankly merrie old country in cahoots with NYX, Deep England, now out and wreathing like evening mist around the collective consciousness, you may well be forgiven for thinking Elizabeth Bernholz, aka Gazelle Twin, could rest easy, her work here done at least for the …
News: Erland Cooper announces digital epilogue to his astonishing Orcadian trilogy; hear Bill-Ryder Jones’s rerub of ‘Haar Over Hamnavoe’
THE SUPERB ambient-psychogeographical triptych by Orcadian musician and composer Erland Cooper, Solan Goose, Sule Skerry, and Hether Blether – which themselves are receiving a gorgeous box set treatment, more of which below – is gaining an excellent addendum at the end of next month in Holm, a collection of variations, B-sides and reworkings by artists …
Droppin’ Knowledge: In Chi-Town, Rashid Hadee Is On The Beat. And The Mic, Too.
In hip hop, a sample can sometimes lead you on an unexpected journey. Rashid Hadee’s first box of vinyl records came from his uncle. The Chicago rapper and producer discovered the box in a closet, and decided to listen to the LPs, one by one, and create beats from what he found. Hadee’s uncle was …
Album review: Ryley Walker – ‘Course In Fable’: Chicago baroque-folk genius brings the prog to his latest dazzler
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest and most candid tweeters in music: Ryley Walker is all of these. He’s set to release his new solo album, …
Album: Birdpen – All Function One
English alternative rock duo Birdpen are the creation of Dave Pen and Mike Bird. They mix elements of alternative guitar rock, experimental electronica and Krautrock with cinematic moods, all delivered with powerful and meaningful lyrics. All Function One is an album written as the world was changing at the start of the 2020 pandemic. An …
Track: Little Arrow – ‘Poetically Diseased’ (Live at Four Bars, Cardiff, 2014): potent live take heralds the tenth anniversary rerelease of ‘Music, Masks & Poems’
HAILING from far out west in deepest Pembrokeshire, Little Arrow began making waves on the Welsh scene a decade back with a fully musically and emotionally realised debut album, Music, Masks & Poems. Tragically, Little Arrow’s frontman William Hughes died of cancer in December 2018, cutting short the career of a band with real depth …
Track: Abdullah Ibrahim – ‘Did You Hear That Sound?’: South African jazz legend releases a new live recording of the 1979 classic
IF EVER there was a living legend of jazz, then South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, must surely be right up there; Julliard-educated, rubbing performative shoulders with the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Archie Shepp, he performed at Nelson Mandela’s presidential inauguration after being a forthriht supporter of the ANC …