Fearless four-track improvisations, spiritual jazz recurrence, manipulations of passing time. Lorena Quintanilla discusses three important albums.
Review: Amnertia – Scheiner’s Observation
Seven pieces of scrunched-up time.
Guitar shards, blown-out drum machines and processed poetry.
Review: Pink Room + SEPL – Transition
The blur of obliteration and assembly. A 30-minute synthesiser collage by Thierry Arnal and Sophie Jeannin.
Review: Atte Elias Kantonen – Studies In Audio Fabrics
Exercises in sonic tactility, generated on an array of analogue synthesisers.
Crucial Listening #56: Steve Von Till
Volcanic psychedelia, flanger sweep obsessions, monuments in the mountains. The musician, poet and teacher discusses three important albums.
Review: Tatsuya Nakatani + Rhonda Taylor – City Of Rocks
Giddy tilts on the American Southwest. Improvisations for percussion and saxophone.