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Crucial Listening #47: Jessica Ekomane

Crucial Listening #47: Jessica Ekomane

Reaching for trance states, peer-to-peer discoveries, the myth of technological neutrality. The Berlin-based artist discusses three important albums. Jessica’s picks: György Ligeti / Pierre-Laurent Aimard – Works For Piano Missy Elliott – Miss E…So Addictive Alva Noto – Xerrox Vol. 2 Jessica’s album Multivocal is out on Important Records. Check out

Interview: Sarah Davachi

Interview: Sarah Davachi

In Davachi’s music, I hear a negotiation between human instigation and letting be. Sometimes I catch little traces of melodic patterns, as she sends synthesisers through little zig-zagging motifs that rise out of the drones and return to them. At other points, she simply allows the instrument to play

Review: The Overtone Ensemble - S/T

Tim Catlin’s Overtone Ensemble (completed here by Atticus Bastow, Philip Brophy and David Brown) centres on his self-made instrument called a “Vibrassa”: an array of vertical aluminium rods, all set to a different microtonal tuning, which emit pristine sustained tones when stroked by hand. They gleam fiercely like stars,