The historic city of Avignon in France became a World UNESCO heritage site in 1995, owing to its importance in the 14th and 15th centuries. Its walls have contained hundreds of years of people and events. From the death of Louis VIII to the Massacres of La Glacière, Its wallsContinue Reading
There’s a bewitching darkness to be found in Italian electroacoustic composer and producer Francesco Giannico’s recent collection L’immagine di me, lontano, an album of sonic soundscapes that feel like a wordless, imageless movie; one full of neo-noir scenery and shady characters. Having written a thesis on the history of filmContinue Reading
From the mean streets of Oxford comes he didnt, an experimental guitar player who uses distortion and effects to produce a gnarly and bone-chilling assault on the senses, although one that is deceptively rich with intention and feeling. Released on drone alone records, Anti-Ambient Passive Resistance is the artist’s debutContinue Reading
ILUITEQ is an Italian electronic duo comprised of artists Sergio Calzoni and Andrea Bellucci. The pair’s work centres around climatic soundscapes glittered with minimal percussion, often downtempo, and splatters of tonal beauty. Their last full-length album, Reflections from the Road, boasts heavenly mixes of calming and colourful disposition. TheseContinue Reading
You have to leave a place to appreciate coming home. When Glastonbury-based musician Dead Carter was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, a form of chronic fatigue syndrome, he had to move away from his work with his group Dean Carter and the High Commission and focus on his health. However, thisContinue Reading
Gigi Tsintsadze Quartet live at 1984, Tbilisi, 03/07/2023 On a narrow cobbled street off Liberty Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, sits the unassuming jazz venue 1984. Three floors up, you can find a delicate interior design that recalls a posh Parisian tea house, though patrons tonight mainly drink beer and GeorgianContinue Reading
Mega Bog, the audacious avant-pop collective led by Erin Elizabeth Birgy, have released their enigmatic seventh album, End of Everything. Exploring the boundaries of experimental soundscapes and traditional songwriting, Birgy grapples with bewilderment through expressive and highly stylistic singing and production, seeking something palpable to convey surrender, mourning, and resilience amidst introspectiveContinue Reading
Finnish neoclassical composer Aki Yli-Salomäki stretches his sparse compositions towards oceanic and blurred parameters on Jäi mieleen, an album of nine patient, thoughtful and colourful compositions for strings and synthesizer. The first three tracks see heavily sustained bows of cello and violin rise and fall around melancholia, sometimes finding disharmonicContinue Reading
Sir Bobby Jukebox, the moniker of Dublin artist Bobby Aherne, has released his sophomore effort, the breathily-titled Sir Bobby Jukebox in the Organ Loft at Midnight. This collection of persistently offbeat and contagiously irreverent songs might lead one to mistake it for comedy or children’s music. However, Bobby skillfully navigatesContinue Reading
Old-school riffage is alive and well in Bristol. Multi-instrumentalist Oli Duerden may be best known for his work with the early-21st-century rock band Left Side Brain, but since that group’s hibernation period started in 2014, Duerden hasn’t put down his guitar. Instead, the riffs on his sophomore solo EP,Continue Reading