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Track: Gabriella Smith and Gabriel Cabezas’ ‘Lost Coast III’ brings the wonder, the awe and the anger at Californian climate change for cello and solo vocals

  • June 8, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
BOTH a composer whose place in the great American musical annals seems pretty much assured and a passionate environmentalist, Gabriella Smith is set to release an album at the end…
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See: The smeary dessert action painting of Blurry the Explorer’s ‘Limited By Jelly’

  • June 6, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
BLURRY THE EXPLORER is a quirkily beguiling new art-rock project oozing outta Brooklyn with experimental composer, drummer, and photographer Jeremy Gustin, aka The Ah, at the helm. They’ve just released…
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News: Tangents continue to explore beyond jazz and go double or quits with new album ‘Timeslips & Chimeras’; hear the propulsive electronica fusion of ‘Lilliputian’

  • June 6, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WITH their last album release, last year’s Timeslips, finding itself somewhat hobbled by – c’mon, you know, it made us all stay in for months on end – the enigmatic…
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News: Derbyshire’s lovely Haiku Salut announce a spectrally concerned new album for August; watch a short making-of doc

  • June 5, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
MOVING away from their recent investigations of the film score, which includes their last full album proper, 2019’s The General, a score for Buster Keaton’s 1926 early slapstick comedy classic,…
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See: c / a’s ‘THE PRIMER’: South London duo lead us further astray into generative audiovisual AI

  • June 3, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
LONDON audiovisual merry pranksters c / a aren’t quite like anyone you’ve encountered before. Nor me, for that matter. They’re operating in a highly conceptual sphere where AI, generative algorithms…
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Track: Kevin Richard Martin shares the title track from his deeply eerie, forthcoming rescoring of the sci-fi classic, ‘Solaris’

  • May 30, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
KNOWN in the hallowed halls of dark electronica for his work as The Bug, King Midas Sound and others, when Kevin Richard Martin was offered a commission to write, record…
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Track: Mind Maintenance – ‘Valence’: further cognitive hygiene for mbira and guimbri calls you to the hearth

  • May 30, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WHEN Chicago rhythm section masters Chad Taylor and Joshua Abrams get together to play, you know the results will be intelligent, off-kilter, crisp; intuitive. The pair have worked together in…
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News: Daniel O’Sullivan, Richard Youngs and Alexander Tucker take over Dalston’s Cafe OTO for a three-night leftfield residency in August

  • May 26, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WITH the first stirrings of regular gig-going just beginning to make itself felt, a welcome return of one of the things that really makes life bearable, lovers of the leftfield…
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See: Bruno Bavota – ‘Apartment Loop #6’: a personal experience of lockdown captured in modular electronics

  • May 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WE LOCKED the door; we waited. We waited, we combed the airwaves; we counted the days some more. The experience is nigh on universal, save those of you lucky enough…
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See: Mattia Cupelli – ‘EGERIA’: propulsive ambient darkwave goes down to the water

  • May 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
MATTIA CUPELLI, the Italian darkwave ambient composer, the cyclical, shadowy prayer call of whose “MONOLITH” we covered in these pages just over a week ago, has dropped another track, this…
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