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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Radio: Resonance Extra – Episode 3 (28/03/2017)

A conversation with Kate Carr from Flaming Pines: a London-based record label for experimental music, originally founded in Sydney, Australia. Also: a playlist featuring various interactions with the guitar. TRACKLIST: PART 1: GUITAR Hans Tammen – Attack Study Jenks Miller – Spirit Signal Giacomo Fiore – Until It Blazes Six Organs Of Admittance

Interview: Egidija Medekšaitė

Interview: Egidija Medekšaitė

Egidija Medekšaitė creates her music by mapping textile patterns onto compositional parameters, using characteristics such as the weft, the warp and the yarn itself to determine the harmony and rhythm of her music. The translation is both strange and beautiful; while these textile patterns weren’t necessarily designed to be

Review: Oikos – The Great Upheaval

Oblivion is seldom sudden. Oikos describe The Great Upheaval as “an imaginary soundtrack for every moment in history ravaged by violence and superstition”. In truth, the record seems to document the prelude and the aftermath on either side. The “moment” itself is implied, so vividly written into the before and

Interview: Triac

Interview: Triac

I’ve listened to Triac’s new album in several different contexts. On a nocturnal walk over headphones. Via speakers during evening reading. Sat at the back of a busy cafe. The experience is drastically different each time. These clouds of sound – faint, ambiguous dispersals of laptop, piano and bass

Review: Orthodox – Supreme

It’s wailing and leaking. It just won’t die, yet it’s far beyond saving. Supreme is 36 minutes of imbalance and injury. It’s a prolonged, improvisatory swirl round the basin of death. Cymbals get wedged in cracked ribs of bass guitar. Saxophone gushes from the wound. Like

Review: Ian Hawgood – Love Retained

The pieces on Love Retained were originally intended to form the basis of collaborations. This would explain why the piano often appears to be crouching down in a small portion of the stereo frame, or why chords seem to pause and await reply (to which only silence acknowledges receipt). Hawgood

Interview: Nonconnah

Interview: Nonconnah

My introduction to Lost Trail was via their excellent Wist Rec release The Afternoon Vision, which came in a jackdaw folder complete with soil survey maps, distorted photography of various landscapes, and poetic phrases stranded on the back of curious images. Meanwhile, their music feels shaped by the graceful erosion