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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Review: Eli Keszler - Cold Pin

Cold Pin is essentially an improvised performance dictated by the fierce, rattling emissions of several piano strings arranged across a looming curved wall; a motor is attached to each, which taps against the string in sporadically sequenced rapid-fire bursts. Those few initial growls of the motor attacking the piano

Review: My Cat is an Alien - Living on the Invisible Line

Out of the silence of this album’s first track comes an eerie acoustic loop that folds back in on itself in waves of reverse delay. It’s present throughout the 14-minute piece – becoming a touch more chilling with each repetition – as a growing sense of cabin fever sinks

Review: Alex Cobb + Aquarelle - Split LP

While Alex Cobb and Aquarelle each contribute just 13 minutes of material to this latest split on Low Point, the gorgeous way in which both halves interact will no doubt compel the listener to many a repeat spin. Little pieces of feedback, guitar, synth chords and bowed strings crackle out

Review: Hamann + Fractal - Solo Para Dementes

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that this could be ATTN’s first contact with Peruvian improvisatory music, and it’s nice to be able to commemorate such an occasion with a positive review. Solo Para Dementes brings together Wilder Gonzales A. (aka Fractal) on the oscillator

Review: Three Fields - Wild Blue Yonder

Like those fleeting “ambient” interludes that come scattered amongst Boards of Canada tracks, or those tentative forays into ambient music by Brian Eno back in the 70s, Wild Blue Yonder feels torn between evoking an otherworldly mysteriousness and staying firmly harnessed to the more traditionally musical structures and textures. Synthesizer

Review: Manuel Mota + Jason Kahn - Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is one of those albums in which the location of the recording is as integral as the actions of the performers. Both of these pieces were recorded in the cellar of the “Espírito Santo” building in Lisbon – a space that not only announces its presence as a ghostly

Review: Heatsick - Intersex

The two minutes of “Axi Zum No” – the opening track of Intersex – makes for an interesting introduction to the album’s atmosphere and aesthetic. Its combination of a wavering, unsteady string loop and Steven Warwick’s half-minded hums bare little stylistic relation to the dance-orientated jams that seize