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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Crucial Listening #54: Lea Bertucci

Excursions into outer jazz, marbles against metal, empty Tokyo streets. The New York composer, performer and sound designer discusses three important albums. Lea’s picks: Charles Mingus – The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady Bernard Parmegiani – De Natura Sonorum Keiji Haino – Black Blues Lea’s latest album Acoustic Shadows is

Review: Aidan Baker – Soil

Review: Aidan Baker – Soil

UTILITY TAPES. Within this tattered quilt of idling guitar loops, crumpled static and starchy interference, no single sound is permitted to dominate. Waste products are processed to pull their inner tonality to the fore, as tuneful as the plucked melodies with which they intermingle. Intention and happenstance are blurred into

Review: Sofía Salvo + Gustavo Obligado + Marcelo von Schultz – MOTOR

Review: Sofía Salvo + Gustavo Obligado + Marcelo von Schultz – MOTOR

NENDODANGO RECORDS. Just as a river is both a static presence on a landscape and an entity of constant flux, MOTOR melds two modes of movement into one. Sax players Sofía Salvo (baritone) and Gustavo Obligado (alto) often work in extended strands of sound – the former excavating moaning overtones from

Review: Inaya Natë – MOSS

Review: Inaya Natë – MOSS

BANDCAMP. MOSS is a flashing perimeter. 19 minutes of electronics rendered in a dazzle of alternating colours and lights. Movement and illumination cradling an empty centre. The synthesisers are spatially arranged into a living sphere, stimulated by the pattering rhythm that presses itself upon the air. The shape persists even

Crucial Listening #53: Okkyung Lee

The case for BTS, a complicated relationship to jazz, drunken birthday improvisations. The cellist, composer and improviser discusses three important albums. Okkyung’s picks: Kim Hyun Chul – Vol. 1 Duke Jordan Trio – Flight To Denmark Pieter Wispelwey – Ligeti’s Sonata For Violoncello Solo Okkyung’s latest album Yeo-Neun is out

Review: Conatus – Empty Spaces

Review: Conatus – Empty Spaces

BANDCAMP. What is it that binds the instruments on Empty Spaces? Certainly not a common tonality. Delphine Dora’s piano splays like a tenuous constellation of stars, each note like a wry harmonic rebuttal to the one prior, while the contributions of Žils Deless-Vēliņš – forming variously as plucked guitars, hushed

Review: Deep Thoukus – S/T

Review: Deep Thoukus – S/T

BANDCAMP. Guitarist Daniel Meyer Grønvold and drummer Kyrre Laastad are barely touching. That’s the beauty of their improvisations as Deep Thoukus. The instruments skim against one another, each a pondskater to the other’s rippled water, making brief and intermittent contact – enough to push away and coast for a