Archive - Trebuchet

Mike Patton – The Solitude of Prime Numbers

11/11/2011

The Solitude Of Prime Numbers by Mike Patton is out now on Ipecac...

Heather Findlay and Chris Johnson – ‘Live at the Cafe 68’ – Review

10/11/2011

Recorded before an intimate audience of just thirty people, 'Live at the Café 68' is York singer-songwriter Heather Findlay's second release since leaving as lead singer of...

Abdul’ll Fix It – An Academic in Africa

09/11/2011

For the last six weeks I have lived in Nigeria as an illegal immigrant. My visa (which I don’t think ever technically allowed me to work here anyway) expired on the 6th of June, and no...

Supersonic festival 2011 – review

08/11/2011

Begin transmission: Supersonic is the probably the greatest festival or true music lovers in the UK, perhaps further afield. Stop. 21st to 24th October. Attending Supersonic 2011 felt like being...

Make Better Music 65: A Musical Process

08/11/2011

So this week, having been inspired by a particular piece of music, I’m going to focus on one particular kind of procedure - which doesn’t really have a name. I’ll just try to describe it....

FZV – Soundsump

07/11/2011

The shadowy producer known only as FZV is a long-term, low-profile participant in London's Pitchless Sound System and has often played at underground events in temporary spaces. Operating in the...

Loitered Lens: Grim Dylan [Pics]

06/11/2011

Photos of Grim Dylan 2011...

Police Repression, Official Mendacity and Why OWS Has Already Overcome Until recent events proved otherwise, the hyper-commercialized surface of the corporate state gave the appearance of being too...

Artists: what are we worth?

04/11/2011

The economic crisis has meant an economic armageddon for artists. What are we worth? was a panel discussion led by DACS and Artquest that considered how artists can create income in support of their...

Autumn – Cold Comfort

03/11/2011

Autumn tweak their heavy rock roots and embrace 'progressive musical genres and alternative approaches' Oo err! Cold Comfort is the Dutch six-piece Autumn's fifth full-length album. While...

Servants, Scrapes and Situations – An Academic in Nigeria

02/11/2011

Deprived of cultural stimuli we appreciate every cultural artefact in a much more intense way. Saturated with cultural stimuli that intensity, in one sense, is diminished. That’s not to...

Jimmy Gnecco – The Heart: X Edition

01/11/2011

Any album by a band's vocalst going solo needs to justify its existence by revealing some sort of personal vision, some characteristic that wouldn't be found on work by the band. Searching...

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”

01/11/2011

Make Better Music 64: “What Comes Next?”The big question that always demands an answer, when you are writing music, is what happens next? It seems straightforward until you try it. Then...

We would go totally apeshit (Splatterheads)

31/10/2011

Trebuchet interviews Sly, vocalist and guitarist for The Splatterheads, about their history and tentatively, the future of the parochial Australian rock labourer....

Loitered Lens: Catfight/Gasoline Thrill [Pics]

30/10/2011

Catfight have forged a breathy reputation for getting dirty in UK venues since 2009, and giving you more rock for your pound. Prior to becoming Gasoline Thrill Trebuchet captured Catfight live at the...

Into The Unknown: Crushed Beaks – Think Lucky

29/10/2011

For the first time in this position I didn’t have anything in mind for this article. Usually something is on the tip of my audio tongue. Not this month. It left me in quite an exciting position...

King Midas Sound – Without You

28/10/2011

King Midas Sound's Without You bathes in beefy bass. Dark, off-kilter bass music. Hyperdub Records are justifiably famous for it. Steve Goodman's London label has been dropping achingly edgy...

Yann Novak – Presence

28/10/2011

Electronic music is now more ubiquitous than schoolboy garage rock bands ever were. And where schoolboy garage bands once plagued their classmates into spending Saturday evenings at church halls and...

From Shiny Things to Silliness – Frieze Overview

27/10/2011

Frieze was a fantastic opportunity to see a so many of the world’s top artists and galleries in one place. With a multitude of styles and genres on show from over 170 galleries from...

Metahub – Nuit Blanche, Amiens 2011

27/10/2011

Digital Arts: Flash in the pan, light at the end of the tunnel or oncoming train wreck. Amiens, France 15th October This year saw a conjunction between digital artists in the UK and...

Hectic Zeniths – 2011 Album Review

26/10/2011

Hectic Zeniths are playing a dangerous game. It’s hard to describe the sound that pervades these tracks without recalling two very famous albums, the very mention of which is likely to...

Anglicanism, animism, atheism and assessments. In Nigeria

25/10/2011

News of my atheism seems to have spread. I’ve not exactly been evangelical about it – in fact I’ve barely mentioned it. But when a colleague with whom I have never even...

Kid Koala – Space Cadet

24/10/2011

Typical. You wait all year for an album playing on the sound of the internal mechanisms of the piano, and then two turn up within a fortnight. On first impressions, Kid Koala's Space Cadet...

Loitered Lens: Black Nazarene [Pics]

23/10/2011

Black Nazarene Website. Images by Carl Byron Batson 2011. ...

Takako Shimizu – Piecemaker Exhibition 2011

22/10/2011

Mosaic sculptor Takako Shimizu explores the other facets of Glass. It’s clear that while glass heats to a liquid state and cools to become a solid, something of its liquid nature always...

DJ Food. Magpies, Maps and Moons EP & Live Review

21/10/2011

DJ Food – Magpies, Maps and Moons EP If nothing else, DJ Food provides NinjaTune with continuity. By now verging on the status of a legacy act, the item has been around as long as the label...

iconAclass: Powers that be interview

20/10/2011

Powers that be: Will Brooks, hip hop’s transgressor and previously dälek, steps into the light as iconAclass. Hip hop that referenced musique concrete and My Bloody Valentine,...

I Hate the Concept of Revolution. I Spit On It: Trey Spruance

19/10/2011

Interview with Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3, Faith No More, and Mr Bungle Fame on music and spirituality....

Make Better Music 63: Simplicity vs Complexity

18/10/2011

Sometimes I like to overload a song with overdubs and production tricks - if that is what suits it. More can be more in this case. Of course the opposite is also true, less intensely produced music...

Head Cat – Live London 2011

17/10/2011

Rock and Roll; graceless music for rebel outcasts, Head Cat called the sabbath crowd to disorder. Lemmy (Motorhead), Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) and Danny B Harvey (Lonesome Spurs)...

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