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See: c / a’s ‘THE PRIMER’: South London duo lead us further astray into generative audiovisual AI

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’

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

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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Premiere: Typical Sisters – ‘Recurring Memory’: a fraternal, jazzy post-rock groove teases for their third album

DESPITE being scattered across the globe, when the trio of musicians who comprise Typical Sisters get together, whether fraternally to catch up and spitball ideas, in the studio, or collaborating…

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See: Bruno Bavota – ‘Apartment Loop #6’: a personal experience of lockdown captured in modular electronics

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

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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Track: Pan Daijing – ‘Let 七月’: Guizhou performance artist reveals a more intimate but no less potently eerie side

PAN DAIJING is an uncompromising, sonically exploratory artist who hails from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, in south central China. Her approach to her art is unbridled, bold, and…

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See: Album – ‘New And Annoying’: Québécois punk-funkers set out on a Squarepusheresque glide of glitch

QUESTION. Do you love yourself a bit of itchy, broken, nay, fractured and exploded, electronic beat? If someone says words like Aphex and Squarepusher to you, do your eyes light…

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Album review: Masayoshi Fujita – ‘Bird Ambience’: a marimba and electronica masterclass for meditative thought

IF YOU like your music deliciously abstract, abstractedly delicious; arranged beautifully, an absolute world of evocative sound; fell hard, for instance, for the albums Ryuichi Sakamoto made with Alva Noto,…

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See: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Presentism’: a bittersweet, lovely, experimental jazz essay from Saskatchewan collective

ROCK ‘n’ roll: the experimental jazz collective Peace Flag Ensemble has its seed in a meeting at a book group, somewhere, we’re told, between when pianist Jon Neher and ambient…

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