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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Crucial Listening #56: Steve Von Till

Volcanic psychedelia, flanger sweep obsessions, monuments in the mountains. The musician, poet and teacher discusses three important albums. Steve’s picks: Pink Floyd – Live At Pompeii African Head Charge – Off The Beaten Track Jóhann Jóhannsson + Yair Elazar Glotman + Tilda Swinton – Last And First Men Head over to Neurot Recordings to

Review: ssabæ – Fractal Archipelago

Review: ssabæ – Fractal Archipelago

WABI-SABI TAPES. Tempo is a matter of perspective. Just how the progress of a single day runs concurrent to the arcs of larger, slower transformations, each track on Fractal Archipelago is a zone where all rates of movement can be simultaneously perceived: urgent pulsing beeps, steady plonks of synthesised bells,

Review: Tatsuya Nakatani + Rhonda Taylor – City Of Rocks

Review: Tatsuya Nakatani + Rhonda Taylor – City Of Rocks

FULL SPECTRUM RECORDS. The extended, high-pitched tones of Rhonda Taylor’s saxophone are like hands clasping upward at the sky. Swerving and heat-drunk, she manages to imply the presence of a vast landscape through a vertical wisp of sound – not by filling the space, but by capturing the sense of

Crucial Listening #55: Claire Rousay

Listening to assholes, inner/outer presentations of self, power chords over trap beats. The Texas-based artist discusses three important albums. Claire’s picks: Lil Peep – Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 1 Sun Kil Moon – Among The Leaves OIivia Block – Karren Head over to Claire’s website for information

Review: Strangerous – Death By Anticipation

Review: Strangerous – Death By Anticipation

BANDCAMP. “Everything needs to change. Everything needs to change.” With each loop of the spoken sample, the sentiment drains out of the statement. Each sound on the opening 17-minute piece is inducted into a tight, manic orbit of endless repeating. The falsetto voices start to pulse like a siren, static

Review: Jiyeon Kim – Long Decay And New Earth

Review: Jiyeon Kim – Long Decay And New Earth

THE TAPEWORM. The two sides of Long Decay And New Earth document the rehearsal of a piece on 28th December 2019 and its performance on the 29th. The source material comes from Jiyeon Kim’s piano mixtape, which was released under her 11 moniker last year. Before even pressing play,

Review: Suren Seneviratne – blue thirty-five

Review: Suren Seneviratne – blue thirty-five

BLUE TAPES. While there’s nothing cryptic about the setup here – a Korg SQ1 sequencer, a circuit-bent Yamaha MU-15 tone generator, a cluster of disrupted MIDI patterns – Suren Seneviratne’s compositions seem to dangle like unfinished sentences, cut short of communicating the entire message. Describing this fleeting release is only