Author: Trebuchet Magazine

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Earth –  Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1

26/11/2010

Southern Lord (2011) Earth’s latest offering, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1, shows a definite development from the heavy drone aesthetic of yore, encompassing a variety of influences...

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Benoit Pioulard

Benoit Pioulard – Lasted

25/11/2010

The shimmering delight of Lasted by Seattle émigré Benoit Pioulard AKA Thomas Meluch is a massively inspired vehicle of brilliance. A gushing Trebuchet review. ...

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Public Wifi Still Massively Unsafe After All These Years.

25/11/2010

Public Wifi Still Massively Unsafe After All These Years....

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First Data Protection Act Fine Issued

24/11/2010

The Information Commissioner responsible for enforcing the Data Protection Act has fined Hertfordshire County Council £100k for failing in its duties....

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North Versus South Korea

23/11/2010

Missiles and artillery fire has resounded in the far east province of the global village as each leader pumps and primes themselves with carefully worded statements....

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Grafitti Dalston Deco News

Chap-Hop Rivalry reaches New Heights

21/11/2010

Chap-Hop a particularly English form of Hip-Hop has become privy to some ugly scenes of one-up-manship recently between Mr B and Professor Elemental. ...

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Cr2 Presents Live and Direct- Mixed by Uner, Coyu & Edu Imbernon

20/11/2010

Cr2 (Nov 2010) On listening to the brain simmering, head shaking and arms flailing 3 CD compilation album Live and Direct, I found myself longing for a glow stick. The collaboration of Uner, Coyu and...

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Thorsten Soltau / Weiss – Rezkla

19/11/2010

Electroton (2010) This little remix release by Soltau and Weiss is in, electronic musical terms, a fossil. Moreover if glitch can be said to have a retro sound then this is it. However, a fossil it...

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UK Museum Halts Plague Ridden Expedition to Paraguay

17/11/2010

Following protests an expedition by London's natural history museum has been halted while an impact assessment is made to determine how the local population will be affected. i.e. Plague...

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Brian McBride – The Effective Disconnect

13/11/2010

(Music Composed for the Documentary “Vanishing Bees”) Kranky 2010 There is an oral tradition of Indian mythology which affiliates the origins of music with bees. The mythology describes...

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Elfin Saddle – Wurld

13/11/2010

Constellation Records (2010) When exploring the world of Elfin Saddle, it is important to acknowledge that their music and their films are so entwined that it may be difficult to evaluate one without...

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Manuscripts Don’t Burn – The Breathing House

12/11/2010

Fans of standard song structures might argue this album away as a talented wank project of a successful guitarist (Ephel Duath) left to his own narcissistic devices. But what do they know....

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Stuart Semple : Scared-to-Sleep-Alone

Above the line: Stuart Semple

10/11/2010

Trebuchet interviews : Stuart Semple, an established artist who reviews ephemeral media images through his painting, placing them in the context of an emotional historical collage....

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Into the Pit – Scaledown

08/11/2010

The Orchestra Pit Company. Featuring Brainer, Hamilton Yarns and Former Utopia Kings and Queens Pub, Fitzrovia. 29th October 2010.   Getting lost on your way to a gig showcase is not unheard of,...

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Vayu Naidu Company

07/11/2010

Vayu Naidu Company and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia– ‘A Triumph of Light’ 3rd November 2010, The Barbican Centre Let there be light, and there was. For 2010’s Diwali...

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Lingua – All My Rivals Are Imaginary Ghosts

06/11/2010

Aural Music (2010) Mixing the harder edge of Indie guitar with the soaring vocals of mid-era Depeche Mode Swedish rockers Lingua have taken the scrawled melodic postcard of At The Drive-in and kept...

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Scientists Get Closer to Invisibility Cloak

04/11/2010

Scientists have come a 'huge step' closer to developing a material that bends light around an object, a property that aims to make things invisible....

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Goldfish Coronet 29/10/10

02/11/2010

Think Goldfish, think hooks. The kinetic House sounds of South Africa’s Goldfish have started to build a solid reputation outside their homeland and for one night only played a memorable set to...

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Silver Apples, Eat Lights Become Lights, Luminaire 2010

01/11/2010

Fuck it, Silver Apples are to electronic music what Thomas Edison is to Facebook....

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Earth –  A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extractions

28/10/2010

The opening song for this despondent treat is like the unfolding of a questionably green powdered orange, the insides of Earth evoking a terrified awe when revealed. An album which creeps up on you,...

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Boris rejects Cameron’s ‘Social Cleansing’ Cap

28/10/2010

London Mayor Boris Johnson seeks to mitigate the effects of Cameron's bill to cap housing benefit...

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Manu Chao – Coronet,UK 23/10/10

23/10/2010

While many can answer the question of who the diminutive French/Spanish Singer Manu Chao is, for the general population the extent to which he is globally huge is unknown. Let's be frank, Manu...

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iDose Therefore I Am

22/10/2010

Panic in the Bytes of Digital Music: Featuring Cyber-mums fed moral panic by sensationalist media in An Old Scare Gets a Brave New Update. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Your child is...

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Art Music: Remembering Mille Plateaux on the eve of its relaunch

22/10/2010

Mille Plateaux, a multifaceted icon of the dot.com musical era and now in 2010 it’s coming back. ...

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Uwe Boll: Is this the most hated man in cinema?

22/10/2010

Interview with Uwe Boll film maker and hated director...

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Cornbury Music Festival 2010

18/10/2010

Cornbury Music Festival, 3-4th July 2010. Cornbury festival is a very English event described as a ‘dynamic summer festival disguised as a country fayre’ by the organisers or elsewhere as...

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Ghosthandfister – Ghosthandfister

18/10/2010

Ghosthandfister – Ghosthandfister ODD records 2010 What an amazing debut. Ghosthandfister is a perfectly formed record which sounds timeless by virtue of it overtly referencing categorical...

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Kabutogani – BEKTOP

18/10/2010

Kabutogani – BEKTOP Mille Plateaux (2010) For a strongly glitch album, Kabutogani sounds about as fresh as it comes. On BEKTOP, flirtations with melody and discord wheel and flow about the...

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Frank Tovey – Fad Gadget (2006) – Mute

18/10/2010

It’s been said that the clearest sign of genius is to be unappreciated in your own time. Eighties musical pioneer Frank Tovey (as alter ego Fad Gadget) managed the twin feat of alienating...

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Roots Manuva – Alternatively Deep (2006) – Big Dada

18/10/2010

The resurgence of British hip-hop in recent years has revelled in rebelling against current trends across the Atlantic. Personal aggrandizement and brand championship has been a consistent element of...

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