Album Reviews
Nothing Space Music finds Maya Ongaku turning folk, jazz, library music and field recordings into a music of exact distances, where every instrument keeps its own air and landscape is heard in the spaces left between them.
Album Reviews
Blake Hornsby’s Brugmansia lets raga, acid folk, birdsong and altered voices grow together until pastoral beauty begins to carry its own toxicity.
Album Reviews
Family videotapes, Cornish day trips and half-preserved voices: Grandma Love turns the imperfect remains of childhood into a small electronic archaeology of memory.
Album Reviews
Huis is yadayn’s first self-released album, as well as his first to appear on vinyl; it took shape over several years and was recorded in different homes across three countries.
Essays
For half a century, Pink Moon has been read backwards through Nick Drake’s death. Its lyrics suggest another structure: a descent from moon and stars to road, city, flowers and ground, before From the Morning reverses the movement and opens the landscape again.
Film Reviews
David Gladwell’s Suffolk remembers through work: graves, fields, bodies and paths form one accumulated landscape, even as the village that maintained it begins to disappear.
Album Reviews
On A Blooming Body, Cinder Well carries an old folk sensitivity into traffic, kitchens and brickwork, finding landscape where the city has interrupted it rather than where tradition expects it to survive.
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Emily Portman’s Dominion of Spells finds an unexpected continuity between fairy-tale metamorphosis and the historical policing of the female body, carried by piano, banjo, strings and close, unsettled harmonies.
Album Reviews
Built from field recordings, dispersed studios and an ensemble that never quite submits to one centre, The New World gathers a damaged planet into song while remaining wary of the beauty that might make its differences disappear.
Album Reviews
Recorded in Philadelphia in 2007 and released nearly twenty years later, Woodwose finds its deepest strangeness where pastoral song, electric weight and private ritual begin to share the same ground.
Essays
Raoul Vignal’s music has often been heard through an imagined English countryside. Its actual history runs elsewhere: Lyon, Berlin, vanished early projects, electric noise, family memory and places that only gradually begin to acquire names.
Album Reviews
On tiarn, Hana Stretton lets songs emerge from birdsong, domestic noise and half-remembered voices, tracing the point where landscape, recording and involuntary memory begin to occupy the same space.