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Glasgow Film Festival Review: Rosa’s Wedding

Families come in many shapes and sizes. Each unit is unique, with a complex mix of inter-dependent relationships and hard-won power dynamics. It’s natural in larger broods for people to…

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See: Conrad Clipper – ‘Heron’s Book Of Dreams’: piano pastoralism from Berlin composer hiding in pseudonymity

CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He’s lauded over at BBC Radio 3’s Late…

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Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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Track: Panteon – ‘Nobody’: electric folk lushness from Berlin

CURRENTLY based in Berlin, singer-songwriter Yvonne Ambrée writes, records and produces all of her music under the guise of Panteon. She’s gradually unveiling her forthcoming debut album with a string…

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Premiere: W.o.W, aka Winston Ophelia Walkering, debuts new video for ‘Reverse Cowboy’

Portland, ME’s W.o.W. Aka Winston Ophelia Walkering is releasing his new, second single Reverse Cowboy on 12th March, and ahead of it, we’re delighted to be able to premiere the…

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Premiere: Christine Ott – ‘Landscape’: haunting modern compositional pastoralism

THE FRENCH composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott can never be accused of running with the pack in her compositional aesthetic; down the years since her first release, Solitude Nomade, in…

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See: Josh Halper – ‘Honest Feeling’: Dear Life’s alt.country troubadour’s gone fishin’

FOLLOWING last year’s rather lovely album for Dear Life, Alrightnik, Nashville’s guitar essayist Josh Halper has decided to reprise the closing track visually. He’s released a brilliantly conceived and funny…

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Glasgow Film Festival: Gagarine

The Cité Gagarine housing project was built on the outskirts of Paris by the Communist Party of France. Named in honour of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who attended its inauguration…

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Track: Graywave – ‘Swallow’: a darker final drop from her forthcoming EP

WE’VE fallen pretty damn hard for Graywave, the self-styled “dreampop from the West Midz” project of Jess Webberley, on a couple of occasions in recent times; there was her previous…

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EP: Sadness and Complete Disappointment – Fun

Midlands trio Sadness & Complete Disappointment are ready to bring forth their spooky, gloomy, grunge with their debut EP ‘Fun’ Sadness & Complete Disappointment were formed through self doubt and…

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Glasgow Film Festival Review: Rosa’s Wedding

See: Conrad Clipper – ‘Heron’s Book Of Dreams’: piano pastoralism from Berlin composer hiding in pseudonymity

Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica

Track: Panteon – ‘Nobody’: electric folk lushness from Berlin

Premiere: W.o.W, aka Winston Ophelia Walkering, debuts new video for ‘Reverse Cowboy’

Premiere: Christine Ott – ‘Landscape’: haunting modern compositional pastoralism

See: Josh Halper – ‘Honest Feeling’: Dear Life’s alt.country troubadour’s gone fishin’

Glasgow Film Festival: Gagarine

Track: Graywave – ‘Swallow’: a darker final drop from her forthcoming EP

EP: Sadness and Complete Disappointment – Fun