Archive - Trebuchet

The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual

20/06/2011

For their fifth studio album, Detroit heavy weights The Black Dahlia Murder have remained true to what they do best. Namely blasting out high energy, heavy and powerful melodic death metal. The album...

On “The Issue Of Character” And Empire

20/06/2011

Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In...

Plant Plants – Plant Plants EP

19/06/2011

First growth bears sweet fruit… Skimming through titles, you might suspect that ‘Plant Plants’ indicated gardening instructions for absolute beginners. Though their name is...

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Union Chapel

18/06/2011

Acoustic unions in an electric chapel, I beheld the evolution of folk music and it was divine. Rocking it was not. Communion. A series of flashbacks occurred as I walked down an aisle of the Highbury...

Wolf People – Steeple

18/06/2011

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...

Ducktails – live photos 31st May

17/06/2011

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. – James Lalropui Keivom...

Kurt Gluck Speaks ‘Ohm Resistance’

16/06/2011

Anger fuelled techno label Ohm Resistance have described their sound as “the price of revolution”. So with this rebellious streak in mind, Trebuchet Magazine interviewed owner and...

Savage Nomads, Don’t Wait Animate, White Powder Gold – Live

15/06/2011

The constant hybridisation of music is the fuel that drives innovation. The problem is that decontextualising sounds and themes from other genres can make them meaningless or seem weakly pastiche,...

Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem 3

15/06/2011

The Pacific Northwest meets the rest of the world… strange things happen… Before I commence, I feel I ought to issue an important warning – be VERY careful if trying to Google...

Amon Tobin – Surge EP

13/06/2011

Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues....

David J Roch – Skin and Bone

12/06/2011

Colliding the wonderment of tragedy and the bewildering virtue of romantic love, these songs are not lullabies. They are raw emotions straight from your nerve endings. Every so often an album comes...

Rival Consoles – Kid Velo

11/06/2011

Rival Consoles' Kid Velo has the beats and builds of anthemic house, but it's more Paul Hardcastle than Paul Oakenfold. Now that GaGa has got her hands on sidechain compression and synth...

Somewhere Somehow We Repair – Body Studio

10/06/2011

Mary George's group exhibition in a fully functioning gym juxtaposes the static with the kinetic, the delicate with the strong, the physically aspirational with the spiritually contemplative. At...

Ukkonen – Erriapo (EP)

10/06/2011

Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you...

Modern Panic – Carnevale Grotesque

09/06/2011

Art can be like a wedding cake, full of jam and sponge and sugar on top. It's tasty, once in a while, but won't blow you away. You can spend a lot of money on it, but it won't really...

Miss Led – Street Style Perfection

08/06/2011

Illustration with a street edge, Miss Led's art has moved to galleries, brands have taken note, the rise and rise of graf influenced art continues. Miss Led is a UK based artist with a keen...

Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues

08/06/2011

Make Better Music 47: Messiaen and the Blues. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

SubMachena – Sta Luego Dub

07/06/2011

Dub maybe a niche concern but SubMachena give us enough to warrant a fresh look at the genre. Robin Taylor-Firth and Rawle Bruce may be better known as Olive (See You’re Not Alone) when they...

Make Better Music 46: Satie, Reich, Schoenberg and the Limits

07/06/2011

Make Better Music 46: Satie, Reich, Schoenberg and the Limits. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Eye Hear, Heart See 5: Give up the Ghost

06/06/2011

Sugarcubes – 'Ammaeli' This dream is for you, so pay the price. Make one dream come true, you only live twice. Nancy Sinatra – 'You only live twice' I don't know Who...

Claire Nicolson – The Wheelbarrow

05/06/2011

In the hip but friendly atmosphere of Camden’s Wheelbarrow, UK singer/songwriter Claire Nicolson emerges with a chunky acoustic guitar strapped to her frame. She’s effortlessly confident...

Ofelia Dorme – All Harm Ends Here

05/06/2011

Sumptuously restrained album by a little known Italian band that have enough originality to move an audience into sweet oblivion. It’s rare to hear an album as well produced as this. Everything...

Wet Paint – Woe

04/06/2011

Life, like wet paint, is messy. It's painful, it's colourful too. Sometimes it comes in one colour. Sometimes it's black. We all have our ups and downs. It seems Wet Paint have had a...

René, Can We Begin A Dream Collaboration Project?

03/06/2011

Human language is like a cracked kettle drum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity. -Gustave Flaubert Descartes,...

Pleq – Ballet Mechanic

02/06/2011

Echoes, textures and the subtle hint of melody; the ambient music formula is rarely relevant. With 'Ballet Mechanic' Pleq wins against the odds. Contemporary ambient music has no place in a...

Kindest Lines – Covered in Dust

02/06/2011

Not quite the Dirty South… Kindest Lines are from New Orleans. This, in itself, is totally irrelevant. In spite of the Big Easy’s fine traditions of blues, jazz and southern rock, they...

Mental D-struction – Extrapolation of Human Perspectives

01/06/2011

Swapping guitars and drums for VSTs and sequencers, Mental D-Struction makes the tricky jump to electronica and almost pulls it off. Having high artistic ideals, and creating material which follows...

Make Better Music 45: Oh, The Possibilities!

31/05/2011

Make Better Music 45: Oh, The Possibilities! Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Eye Hear, Heart See 4: The way I feel inside

30/05/2011

Nothing much could happen Nothing we can't shake Oh we're absolute beginners With nothing much at stake As long as you're still smiling There's nothing more I need I absolutely love...

Running in the Dark

29/05/2011

Having lived a drug-free life, I sometimes wonder if I'm missing out. Is there really an experience only a substance can provide? I'm standing in a field in the English countryside. I can...

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