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Album Review: Blank For.ms – ‘After The Town Was Swept Away’ : Subtle but significant experimental downtempo from the New York based electronic musician.

It’s been a decade since Brooklyn-based Tyler Gilmore, aka Blank For.ms followed his musical intuition and shifted from the world of big band jazz composition and ensemble arrangements to focus…

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Track/Video: Passepartout Duo’s sonic travelogue ‘Pieces From Places’ begins with the tantalising ‘From Taipei’.

Passepartout Duo, the sonic partnership between pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito, thrives on constant travel, seeking out new collaborations as well as inspirational settings for recording and performance.…

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Album Review : Nina Garcia – ‘Bye Bye Bird’ : Taking noise guitar deeper and further.

You could say that guitar led experimentalism is having a moment. Away from the revered Frith/ Orcutt/Ambarchi/Anderson/Connors conclave, a new wave of fretboard deconstructors are cranking up their own kind…

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Album Review : Mohammad Syfkhan –‘I Am Kurdish’ : Bouzouki driven song and dance soul- music which makes a mighty impression.

Singer/ bouzouki player Mohammad Syfkhan’s bio underlines the fact that some back stories are more important than others. His journey to the release of his debut solo album ‘I Am…

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Live Review: David A Jaycock / Cracked Hands – Bishops House, Sheffield 24.09.2023

It was hard to believe there was anything going on at Bishops House at all when I arrived (admittedly, late- it being my first time there and estimating set times…

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News: The Weather Station – Release new album + UK & Irish Tour Dates.

One year ago, THE WEATHER STATION released Ignorance, one of 2021’s most praised and far-reaching albums. And now, in 2022 Tamara Lindeman is pleased to reveal the swift arrival of its follow-up, How Is It That I Should…

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Track: Joy Guidry explores their ‘Inner Child’ in throaty free jazz bassoon ahead of their February long-player

NEW YORK composer, bassoonist and Berlin Prize for Young Artists nominee Joy Guidry is an artist who likes to – nope, is compelled to – dive deep into the music…

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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

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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Album review: UNKNOWN ME – ‘BISHINTAI’: a delightful, candy-coloured ambient trip

BISHINTAI is a delightful album, candy-colour bright, beamed from some offworld where fantastic cuboid furniture and hanging egg chairs are the norm; it will add a little brain-clearing wasabi to the most humdrum and dun day. If you've ever swooned for the Sushi 3003 and 4004 compilations; for Air at their most "Sexy Boy" cosmic and and most especially definitely, the bright retro-futurism of The Gentle People - then boy, is this album ever for you

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Track: UNKNOWN ME’s ‘Open The Sense’ is a rainbow ambient bonbon

YOU QUITE possibly haven’t come across UNKNOWN ME, a Japanese collective with a very particularly glimmering, space-age approach to the the business of ambience; in fact, if their moniker is…

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