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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

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Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

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Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview [Part 2]

My maximum beats per minute is between 200 and 210bpm, anything past that I feel doesn’t carry any feeling....

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Francis Dunnery [Interview]

I think it is a dreadful mistake to base your decisions on what an audience might like. Audiences are as fickle as a donkey's tail....

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Empty Yard Experiment : Kallisti

With a sound that stretches from the sparse classical piano of "Sunyata" to the claustrophobic heaviness of "Entropy", Empty Yard Experiment are a band with a strong music identity of their own...

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Mono/Poly : Golden Skies

We’re left with a sense of power and fragmented images of wonder, yet we can’t quite grasp why the component symbols were so important....

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Cambridge Rock Festival [Part 2]

The veteran acts topping the bill pulled in the punters while the newer acts lower down the bill ended up giving the best performances....

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Othon : The Garage [Live]

the musical equivalent of opening a fairy tale pop-up book and watching the characters jump out and dance around your head...

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Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation

Behind the carefully enunciated words, is a man whose whole existence revolves around art, and that each phrase is born of a lifetime’s experience and understanding....

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Polar Bear : XOYO

This was jazz, but it was jazz with the raw energy and ferocious intensity of a rock show....

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HRH Prog 2 Festival

There were complaints from some quarters that it was an inconvenient location. But it was an equal opportunity inconvenience; it takes just as long wherever you're coming from. HRH Prog 2...

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Fear in a Handful of Dust

The times call for us to explore the soul's topography of exaggeration, and this is propitious because it is not possible to exaggerate the peril we face if we cling to the status quo...

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Tarja Turunen : 02 Academy [Live]

Tarja is a dynamic live act with a remarkable and unique voice, and on the strength of performances like this doesn't only reproduce her records live but exceeds them. ...

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Max Richter : Memoryhouse [Live]

An ambitious beautiful record that deserves a rediscovery outside of its historical parameters...

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Rainbow : Singles Box Set 1975 – 1986

If you listen very carefully, you might hear the sound of a barrel being scraped...

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My Dark Song : Bobby Beausoleil

Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson. The collision of two dominant personalities would certainly be the trigger for the first and, perhaps, all three of the gory and ritualistic Manson Family...

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Max Richter – Memoryhouse revisited

Vinyl release of Max Richter's memoryhouse and a rare Barbican performance on Jan 24 of this masterwork. ...

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Brighton Dome : earsthetic

Meshing together visual art, new electronic music and experimental soundscapes, the programme of events aims to celebrate artists who break new ground with their symbiosis of sound and visuals....

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The Presence LDN : Interview

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart....

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Anna Calvi : One Breath

As with all material on this sublime record, Calvi thrashes her inspirations into unique statements....

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Robert Mapplethorpe : Fashion Show

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”R/dropcapobert Mapplethorpe: Fashion Show Caution: Borderline NSFW image appears mid-way through text His delicate gaze saw with clarity...

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Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

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Tarja : Colours in the Dark

It's all completely over the top, but then it's a Tarja record, and you wouldn't really expect anything else; it would be like expecting Meatloaf to make a lo-fi Americana album. ...

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Soundscape Ecology : interview with Steven M.Miller

Sound has this wonderful ability to slip past our defenses and infiltrate our experience of place in ways we aren’t aware of, yet respond to nonetheless. Music is just one aspect of this much...

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David Lynch New Album [Video]

David Lynch describing his style of music as “modern blues,” says the songwriting process for his new album, The Big Dream, was similar to his debut. ...

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Reverend Elvis Interview [Part 2]

I don't follow any religion or political ideology or whatever. I can think by myself....

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Martha Parsey : Interview

Trebuchet interviews the bold force of contemporary painting Martha Parsey ...

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King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview

More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. ...

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Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

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Rebekka Karijord : Interview

I do feel like I want to be political but I’m not a super rhetorical political person but I do believe that music can be political, not in the sense that I want to sit down and write a song about a...

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