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TRACK: Vetle Nærø – ‘Waves’: 7K! sign excellent young Norwegian solo pianist
BERLIN’S 7K! imprint, the ambient and modern compositional flipside to legendary dance label !K7, has signed a really rather gorgeous new pianist talent, Denmark’s Vetle Nærø – and he really is a cut above the studious solo masses, his music coming from the heart and full of nuance and absolute appreciation. You can hear that …
SEE: Conrad Clipper – ‘Say The Name’: enveloping piano textures pave way for April album
CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He is, as the prepared and programmed element to his pianist practice would suggest, and there’s a run of plosives, a bit of a favourite on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction; presenters Verity …
Premiere: See the new video from Stella Research Committee, for ‘Hanging In My Screamer’
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness’, we’re delighted to premiere the new video from Cincinnati noise band Stella Research Committee for their new single ‘Hanging In Mt Screamer’. Making up the noise-rock / no-wave scene with the likes of Hissing Tiles, Fruit LoOops and Daumier, Stella Research Committee mix …
NEWS: Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley announce avant-garde folk album; hear ‘This Here Jungle of Moderness/Composition 14’
THEY may at first somewhat unlikely bedfellows: Matthew E. White, who arrived back in 2011 with his debut album The Big Inner, seemingly a fully formed gentleman of classic Southern Americana; and Lonnie Holley, the scrap sculptor who released his debut set of free-flowing outsider funk, Just Before Music, at the age of 62 in 2012. …
TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient. It’s all helmed by Indianapolis producer Stuart Hyatt, who began the series – the forthcoming album is …
Album Review: Black Country, New Road- For the first Time
FURNISHING a burgeoning buzz from just two singles – albeit uniquely abrasive, jazz/noise flecked singles- and a feverish clamour for their live shows, Cambridge’s Black Country, New Road quickly set themselves apart from both their contemporaries. The band were also praised as “the best band in the world” by The Quietus. Again, within just two …
SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ Drunes. He brings a singular texture to his way with a vibey drone, and one not without a wayward sense of humour, as you can …
TRACK: This Morn’ Omina release “1.000 Cuts (Lingh Chi)”
Belgian tribal industrial; three words that will undoubtedly pique your interest or have you wondering “what on earth is that?” But Belgian collective This Morn’ Omina rightfully summarise their output well with those three words and head of the release of their album, The Roots of Saraswati, have unveiled their newest single. Infectiously groove-laden, embracing …
NEWS: EUGENIUS’ “MIDLIFE” ISSUED ON CASSETTE.
I’ve admittedly slept on Ohio experimental hip-hop artist Eugenius when his album, Midlife, dropped in late 2020. Which is criminal given my appreciation of Death Grips, the sorely missed MF Doom and Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition. Midlife by Eugenius Originally released in October, Eugenius’ fifth album “combines elements of hip hop, industrial, pop, noise and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bolomite Jr. – ‘Cold Feet’: classical meets experimental in tectonic layering
BEN CALHOUN has been quietly working away for a while now, leading a double life as a construction worker-cum-experimental musician having begun using Digital Audio Workstations as a creative tool way back in 2014, reconnecting him finally to a performative sphere as a childhood musician he’d left behind Since then he’s digitally released a series of …