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ALBUM REVIEW: Paradise Cinema – ‘Paradise Cinema’: shimmering, vivacious, percussive, Afro ambience

Paradise Cinema, the self-titled project of Portico Quartet's Jack Wyllie, sings of new Afro-ambient futures to immerse in. It's vivacious, swathing and haunting

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SEE: The beautiful visuals for Ólafur Arnalds’ ‘Woven Song’

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS is preparing for his new album, some kind of peace, to hit turntables across the world on November 6th; and he’s followed the beautiful noir of previous single-track…

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PREMIERE: JR Samuels – ‘Doomer’: fine porchside guitar soli outta Philly

JR SAMUELS has been involved in the indie and underground scenes of the North-Eastern United States for the better half of a decade now. While resident in Ithaca in New…

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Track: Oliver Coates releases new track, ‘Honey’, from forthcoming album

TO CALL Oliver Coates a cellist tells you nothing at all. Oliver Coates is a musician whose work connects the circuits at the edge of dance and classical worlds. It’s…

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TRACK: A Lily – ‘Slept Through The Storm’: complex minimalism for a dark time

JAMES VELLA is, like the rest of us, concerned with the horrifically dark period we’re living through right now: the anxiety, the mental privations. The storm. We all need to…

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TRACK: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Blessings’: where acoustic postrock meets Tibetan chant

2020, eh? As it wearies on, the need for music, the need for the good things, for stillness, to find our own thread to follow through it all, becomes ever…

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MEET: We chat with landscape artist and musician Richard Skelton ahead of his new album

RICHARD SKELTON is an artist in the deepest sense of the word. He publishes intense poetry in lovingly designed editions with Corbel Stone Press; he also makes a very deep…

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TRACK: Paradise Cinema – ‘Possible Futures’: exhilarating Afro-ambience

JACK WYLLIE, the musician best known to those of us with a deep and abiding penchant for the leftfield, the beautiful and the widescreen as a member of The Portico…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti – ‘u,i’: beautifully humanist post-classicism, listening to the world talk to itself

ISDN, fibre-optics, the web. Sharing platforms, Skype, Facebook, Zoom; instantaneous transmission, the world shrunk to a pebble’s dimension. Our modern world, and especially the broader swathe of this fractured year…

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TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …

STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about…

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