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Jack Chuter

Crucial Listening #49: Siavash Amini

Monolithian matter, melting Arvo Pärt in a pan, finding the hidden trumpets. The Tehran-based composer discusses three important albums. Siavash’s picks: Keith Jarrett (with Jan Garbarek) – Luminessence Alfred Schnittke – Requiem Kevin Drumm – Sheer Hellish Miasma Keep pace with Siavash’s activities on Twitter. His collaboration with Saåad, titled All

Review: ndr0n – Black

Review: ndr0n – Black

TRUTHTABLE. For a record constructed using algorithmic and generative techniques, the opening minutes of Black are suspiciously straight-forward. An electronic beat skims along in a groovy 4/4, accompanied by a synth drone that sweeps the back wall like a searchlight. Despite the cold monotony of ndr0n’s texture palette,

Review: SWAN MEAT – FLESHWORLD

Review: SWAN MEAT – FLESHWORLD

BANDCAMP. Press play and be yanked – and I mean yanked, hard – down through Megadrive cartridge slots, ascending beyond the strobes and perspiration rain of claustrophobic basement clubs, hurtling into the blur of shopping malls with their garish cocktail of consumerist stimulus, before smashing through skylights to greet flocks of augmented

Review: BIAS – D.A. #001 - A.D. 2020

Review: BIAS – D.A. #001 - A.D. 2020

DUST ARCHIVE. If we can represent our linear understanding of past, present and future as a single horizontal line, the objective of Dust Archive is to chart the diagonals that lead to misremembered histories, alternate realities and prophecies that are never liberated from the cocoon of mere theory. The imprint

Review: KP Transmission – Beatrice

Review: KP Transmission – Beatrice

BANDCAMP. It is alleged that, in reality, Dante met Beatrice only twice: once at the age of nine and again when they were both in their late teens. The rest of their encounters took place within his poems and dreams, where these fleeting interactions became extrapolated by the forces of

Review: Angel Archer – S/T

Review: Angel Archer – S/T

BANDCAMP. This trio understand that the essence of a truly transcendent experience is ambiguity: a material disobedience that ignores the boundaries that confine and corporeally categorise. That’s why the guitars refuse to hold shape and swirl like water instead. It’s why the voices eschew clear communication to slip

Review: shedding – Flocking KF Variations

Review: shedding – Flocking KF Variations

FLUF. 62 tracks, none of which breach the 30-second mark, designed for shuffle playing. If a linear album is like a roll of parchment, Flocking KF Variations is a rattling sack: each piece a marble randomly extracted from the bag, inspected briefly for the swirls of colour inside, then tossed