Review: Babak Ahteshamipour – Specter, Spectrum, Speculum
Synthesisers crunched in trapezoidic arpeggiations, voices in service of nonsense.
Jack Chuter
Review: Savvas Metaxas – For How Read Now
Two eggs for breakfast precede the skitter of the unexpected.
Crucial Listening #109: Jenny Berger Myhre
Haunting organs, sitting inside tape loops, endless questions. The Oslo-based multidisciplinary artist discusses three important albums.
Review: Aleksandra Słyż – A Vibrant Touch
Microtonal drones for strings, saxophone and modular synthesiser, pressing back against the insistence to continue.
Crucial Listening #108: Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Feedback as praxis, weird fragments, the first true drone show. The Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer discusses three important albums.
Chloe’s picks:
Les Rallizes Denudes – Mizutani
Coil – Backwards (Demos)
Phill Niblock – Music
Chloe’s new album, They Can Never Burn The Stars, is out now on SIGE.
Review: Jenny Berger Myhre – Here Is Always Somewhere Else
Nestled loops and wrong turnings in time.
Review: Amirtha Kidambi + Luke Stewart – Zenith/Nadir
Two improvisatory musicians camp out on the extremes in this wonderful collection for vocals and variously facilitated low frequencies.