March 2015 - Trebuchet

Misanthropic roots record for the rootless savage [Thomas Koner]

31/03/2015

As a leading musician within forward-thinking electronic music circles Koner's work around his theme presupposes an exploration into the primitive nomadic elements of being human. ...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

Ripping into the Islington night [Night Ranger]

29/03/2015

Hardcore fans packed out the venue whilst the band hit the stage with a mighty explosion of raw power. Night Ranger...

A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

28/03/2015

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

Siena in all its least-known corners (Federico Pacini)

27/03/2015

Pacini photographs the off-season, with its overcast skies and grey suburban areas....

Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

26/03/2015

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

Despair, evil, murder and suicide. Monthly Metal Medley

25/03/2015

This is like rolling a natural 20 in a particularly bleak game of D&D. You’ve lucked out, and the Gods do smile upon thee, which is certainly a step up from most weeks when it’s more like an...

Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

24/03/2015

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

Wigger, Wigga, Once Again

23/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapurther musings on whether we were racist to use the term ‘wigga’ in a Trebuchet article…. Wigga. The word...

Deadly Particles at KOKO [Starset]

22/03/2015

For those of us who have stared into alien eyes, we got the message. ...

Built with vision and prowess [Planetary Assault Systems]

21/03/2015

A thriving and rapidly evolving sonic ecosystem, producing an expansive soundfield that's simultaneously serene and nervous...

Free-fall bliss of the iris [Richard Diebernkorn]

20/03/2015

Diebenkorn himself has said that he was unaware of his surroundings as an artist...

Cafe OTO Call/Response invocations [Zun Zun Egui]

19/03/2015

Add some Mauritian sunshine with Zun Zun Egui's unique blend of roots, jazz and shoegaze...

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

Take science out of it; everything is fiction (The Rezillos)

17/03/2015

'the music, the song writing and the recorded performances are by far the most important thing'...

BBC Radiophonic Workshop : Southbank Centre

16/03/2015

Rare live shows from the original line up of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop...

Searching for the Great American Album [JKutchma]

16/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is eternal credence in the idea of “the great American novel”. The essential capturing of American culture – its...

The Man Who Brought Fantasy to the Masses [Terry Pratchett Eulogy]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt is fitting that Terry Pratchett, who did so much with the written word, will now have acres upon acres of column inches dedicated...

A band looking to the future rather than the past [Karnataka]

14/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt’s been more than two years since Karnataka last toured the UK. Fronted by their third lead singer (former Riverdance singer...

The broho vigour of a shotgunned Pabst Blue Label (Attila)

13/03/2015

Loitered Lens captures Attila at Electric Ballroom...

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

Denying the standard of musicianship (Neal Morse)

11/03/2015

Neal Morse Band at Islington Assembly Hall, March 7...

FFS! (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks)

10/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”F/dropcapranz Ferdinand and Sparks. Together, Not just sharing a bill, but as a bona-fide Los Angeles/Lanarkshire supergroup! The mind...

Allowing the innate weirdness of the musicians to shine : Primus live dates

10/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’The/dropcap gobstopping formula conjured by Claypool is to play the weird line very straight. This plays out with few of the...

The Rezillos attack every fibre of your being

09/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”P/dropcapresented in glorious 3D THING-O-RAMA, a live stream of B-Movie horror was intercepted from outer space and beamed directly into The...

Jackie Chan-loving metalcore Alaskans : 36 Crazyfists

08/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’With/dropcap the new album a cathartic cry from vocalist Brock Lindow, following the death of his mother… grief never sounded...

Frankie had them both on the ground and bleeding in two hits.

06/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapn my junior year I saw thirty-five fist fights. They came like some pandemic no one had ever seen, and no one knew what to do. One...

The celebration of – and craze for – textiles and stitching

05/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”H/dropcapeart Space Studios is a lively and unusual gem in North Bristol with a variety of textile classes on offer. Peyote stitch beaded...

Heavy, indulgently vulgar and bro-ho as Spring break in Cancun

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”’Even/dropcap if you pretend to hate our music, you will love this album. It will be your guilty pleasure.’ – Fronz,...

Composing With Particle Interactions. How Does the Invisible Sound?

04/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is a lot going on in Q07, particularly for a record which qualifies wholeheartedly as ambient noodling. Thanks to the obliging...

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