The quaintly and very English named band Julie’s Haircut actually hail from Emilia, northern Italy, and they have been around for a quarter of a century. Over that time a substantial discography has accumulated, and In The Silence Electric sees…
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The Antikythera is an ancient Greek mechanical computer dating from around 87 BC, used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes. When you think what the Ancient Greeks gave mankind in knowledge and wisdom, and in…
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One That Nearly Got Away – Part 3 & Part 4 And so we come to the end of my brief round-up of nearly missed essential listens of 2019… Even if you know nothing about the burgeoning and vibrant London…
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Ones That Nearly Got Away The second in this short “catch ‘em while you can” series was also released on the impressive Rune Grammofon label, and saw the light of day back in May. I caught on two weeks ago!…
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Ones That Nearly Got Away This is the first of a few reviews of albums released in 2019 that I only came across in the last couple of weeks, but deserve some belated attention. Not only that, but they would…
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The return of this fine Spanish band after a six year gap from the superb Isla Purgatorio is as welcome as it is surprising, given that the band released two albums in 2013, and then nothing. Composer Ángel Ontalva has…
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In this update we feature: > Loscil – Equivalents > Hans Lundin – The Solo Years: 1982-1989 [6CD Box] > En Fer – En Fer > Sail By Summer – Casual Heaven > Mother Turtle – Three Sides to Every…
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The second instalment of the collision of soundworlds known as Sonar and David Torn arrives by design rather by accident. Whereas Vortex was the result of Torn’s exploratory guitar finding a home amongst Sonar’s cyclical minimalist grooves after the music…
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“Pick your ten best albums from the decade about to end” you said. Never ask me to do something like this again… I jest, I’m a glutton for punishment and we all love a good list, eh? Anyway, from a…
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RIO Cinema, Dalston, London Sunday, 24th November 2019 An otherwise drifting grey November afternoon is given focus and brightened considerably by a visit to a splendid art deco cinema in the culture hub that is Dalston. Led Bib, a long-running…
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