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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Crucial Listening #70: Paul Nataraj

Sitting in a room, Hip Hop Connections, looking for a breadfruit tree. The Blackburn-based artist, radio DJ, podcast producer and lecturer discusses three important albums. Paul’s picks: De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising The Congos – Heart Of The Congos Alvin Lucier – I Am Sitting In A Room

Review: Chloe Yu Nong Lin – Pi Sound 琶聲

Review: Chloe Yu Nong Lin – Pi Sound 琶聲

MONASTRAL. Despite the presence of electronic patches and overdubbing, Pi Sound 琶聲 showcases the interaction between Chloe Yu Nong Lin and her instrument – the pipa, or Chinese lute – first and foremost. Her gestures move between soft strums that mimic petals falling, sudden staccato notes like pinpricks through closed curtains, knocks

Crucial Listening #69: Pisitakun

Releasing your giant, rural music in the city, stealing the cat from the temple. The Bangkok-based artist discusses three important albums. Pisitakun’s picks: Pornsak Songsaeng – สาวจันทร์กั้งโกบ Jing.com – มันส์ ม่วน คัก Buddhist chants – Malai chant / Giant chant Check out Absolute C.O.U.

Review: Aloïs Yang – MLMC Live At Punctum

Review: Aloïs Yang – MLMC Live At Punctum

901 Editions. The visual simplicity of Aloïs Yang’s Micro Loop Macro Cycle installation is, in fact, an introductory provocation to a billion different questions and consequences. The piece consists of a block of ice suspended in the air by rope, dripping intermittently into a glass bowl on the floor

Review: Divide And Dissolve – Gas Lit

Review: Divide And Dissolve – Gas Lit

WEBSITE. The first few listens to Gas Lit assert, above everything, a stark duality: the earthen heaviness of guitar and drums, whose gestures are like geothermal springs calling upon the most ancient energetic potential, and the bright sprawl of the sky, painted through saxophone loops and reverb that spill like

Review: Rhonda Taylor – AFTERPARTY

Review: Rhonda Taylor – AFTERPARTY

BANDCAMP. Recorded during the first days of the “stay at home” order in New Mexico last year, this collection of improvisations for saxophone and voice captures that now-familiar transition state: after the categorical loss of normality, prior to fully comprehending the new mode of existence. This feels like Taylor’s

Crucial Listening #68: Senyawa

Invocations for judgement and destruction, sons of nature, reimagining the music of Indonesia. Wukir Suryadi and Rully Shabara discuss three important albums. Senyawa’s picks: Gugus Gema – S/T Sawung Jabo/Iwan Fals – Dalbo Church Universal And Triumphant, Inc. Featuring Elizabeth Clare Prophet ‎– The Sounds Of American Doomsday Cults Alkisah