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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Review: John Aulich - Suite 001: For Kazimierz

Suite 001 – For Kazimierz was inspired by the war stories of John Aulich’s late grandfather, and such a concept sparks two prominent, juxtaposing stereotypes in my mind. One is of the indulgently reminiscent grandpa, whose tales come dogged with alienating reference points and seemingly meaningless details, strung into an

Review: Zbeen - Stasis

I was hit with mild heartbreak as I took scissors to my copy of Stasis, which arrived at ATTN:HQ in a vacuum-sealed silver plastic pack. Ultimately I’m glad that I did it, as such an action broke my preconceptions of the music that resided within based on

Review: Tiny Leaves - What We Dream Of

The music assembles carefully as if keen not to wake you, like dawning sunlight peering cautiously through an open window. Tremolo guitar rides gentle whispers, synthesiser chord changes sway as softly implied sighs – everything sweeps around my ears with the soft embrace of a pillow, light and friendly in colour

Review: Lawrence English - Songs Of The Living And The Lived In

As a start-to-finish journey, Songs Of The Living is pretty startling. No doubt these recordings have been picked for their ability to enlighten us to those animal sounds that exist outside of our familiar sonic routines; far away from the sounds of a Western world that cradles many

Review: Holly Hunt - Year One

My experience of Year One feels similar in spirit to The Light Carriers by Hyatari – both share the sense of spanning their music out into an infinite vertical line, at once a concentrated, primitive surge of instinct and a transcendent trip to the universe’s farthest reaches. There’s also

Review: En + Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Split

The foundations for Blood were recorded around April 2012, as EN prepared to join Grouper for a handful of dates in Japan. I can imagine the atmospheric contrast sparked in the transition between the two artists. Where Liz Harris’ music evokes a certain murky disconnection – an artist losing her sense

Review: Daniel Barbiero - Not One Nor

If I wasn’t made aware of the fact that the double bass is the instrument at the point of focus here, would I have been able to guess? The friction of taut coarse hair against string is an unmistakable sound – drones and slithering overtones wrestling over the rasp of