There is something gloriously primal about this recording, evident from the moment the jagged edges of the otherwise chooglin’ pop moves of spiky album opener Dark Sleep Fortress rip out the speakers and tear at your consciousness. Don’t make the…
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It is good to see a new album from Dusan Jevtovic, some four years on from the rather feisty Am I Walking Wrong? A truly multi-national project, this recording shows what can be done in the spirit of international co-operation…
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Lighthouse is a companion album to the mighty fine The Stone House, released earlier in the year but actually recorded before it during a marathon session in 2016, from which three albums will eventually emerge blinking into the uncaring daylight.…
View More Wingfield Reuter Sirkis – Lighthouse
O2 Academy, Islington, London Tuesday, 24th October 2017 The venue is a modern, purpose built standing-only space above a shopping centre, with the surprising added bonus of having an un-sticky floor, clean enough to sit on should you be so…
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Album title of the year? Most probably. Salford noisy urchins Trojan Horse arrive at a canter with their second album, Fukushima Surfer Boys, announcing an eerie electronic intent with opener GRAD, an inspection of the hull of the craft while…
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Koko, Camden Town, London Thursday, 5th October 2017 Well, who would have thought it? A venue in Camden (just) that isn’t a toilet?! Koko is a splendid late Victorian edifice, originally opening as a theatre in 1900, and a few…
View More All Them Witches / The Ghost Wolves
Ask any of the more experimentally inclined progressive rock bands which classical composers influence their work, and it is a fair bet to say that along with Stravinsky and Ligeti, Hungarian composer Bela Bartók will get a mention. Here we…
View More Dialeto – Bartók in Rock
O2 Arena, Greenwich, London Saturday, 30th September 2017 A rather spiffing day out in the capital was kicked off with a trip to the V&A for the Pink Floyd Exhibition, and a highly entertaining and informative diversion it was too.…
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Having developed a liking for the music of Italian composer Stefano Giannotti, and having reviewed his band OTEME’s L’Agguato, L’Abbandono, Il Mutamento some eighteen months ago, it was a nice surprise to receive a copy of his latest collaboration in…
View More Stefano Giannotti & Salvo Lazzara – La Vostra Ansia Di Orizzonte
This band hail from Norway, and I’ll bet they’re from Trondheim, without looking at the PR blurb, I hasten to add… actually, they appear to be from Oslo. No prizes to me for that then, but listening to this fat…
View More The Tronosonic Experience – The Tronosonic Experience