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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Interview: How To Cure Our Soul

Interview: How To Cure Our Soul

I wish I could make music like this. Music that parades the illusion of stillness to the idle on-looker. Music that, in actual fact, celebrates the very impossibility of stillness, cherishing the tiny fluctuations in frozen guitar drones and field recordings. Not only that, but this is music that

Review: ORE – Belatedly

We invariably talk about sound as an aerial presence, but the tuba on Belatedly drives down into the earth beneath. Like a cruise liner sinking into quicksand; melancholic yet somewhat majestic in descent, executed with a graceful acceptance that the journey was always going to end this way. This record

Review: Aquarelle – Leave Corners

Immediately, Aquarelle wields a very distinctive compositional technique. He fills space and then vacates it. This creates a very different kind of quiet; one that still bears the imprint of its former occupier, quivering with the residue of sounds recently departed. Just how harsh lights leave glowing silhouettes in my

Interview: Jozef van Wissem

Interview: Jozef van Wissem

There is paradox within the music of Jozef van Wissem. He understands the power of fixating on small details for long periods of time. That’s why the lutist plays the same three-chord melody for 10 minutes straight; I’m guided towards a heightened state of listening, shedding my

Review: Jabu – Sleep Heavy

Sleep Heavy sounds like singing into a fire. Serenading the flicker of distorted keyboards as they swell and recede. Bedecked with the crackle of burning logs (or, as we tilt in and out of this analogy, the cobbled journey of the needle around the vinyl groove). The voices are caught

Review: Sourin – Kakyou-佳境

There is serenity on Kakyou – 佳境. Even when distorted drums and bass are ripping a hole through the album’s midriff, the stereo edges remain tranquil – little flowers of unfurling piano and guitar and chime, sometimes with choral voices poured over like water. At these edges, Sourin pays tribute to

Crucial Listening #12: Hanne Hukkelberg

Creation in solitude, human connection, rhythms in collision. The Norwegian composer / singer discusses her three important albums. Hanne’s picks: 1) Moses Sumney – Aromanticism 2) Kelela – Take Me Apart 3) Espen Reinertsen – Nattsyntese Hanne is currently on tour for her new album Trust, which you can buy over at Musicglue.