Essays
John Barry carries an inherited pastoral language into an Australian landscape already dense with insects, radio, ritual and history. His score endures as the fragile memory later laid across that country.
Essays
From Shirley Collins to the Sephardic romancero and rural Chile, Child Ballad 78 reveals one of Europe's longest journeys in song.
Album Reviews
On Vespera, Michael Cottone lets the piano take over from guitar as The Green Kingdom's centre of gravity, twelve unhurried pieces that treat evening less as a mood than as a liturgy, lamps lit one chord at a time, a flame kept deliberately low so it never quite goes out.
Essays
For twenty-five years United Bible Studies has behaved less like a band than a door somebody forgot to close. More than two hundred musicians have passed through it, leaving records, labels, temporary groups, caves, churches and friendships behind.
Film Reviews
A field of reeds that breathes like a body, a pit that guards what's been repressed, a mask fused to the skin like a scar from Hiroshima. Shindō makes horror well up from the soil itself, a jurisdiction older than any shogun.
Film Reviews
Andrei Tarkovskij rebuilt his childhood house in Yuryevets on its exact foundation, resowed the buckwheat field, and filmed his own mother's real reaction to seeing it again. Mirror turns memory into architecture, and a father's real poems into a son's cinema.
Album Reviews
Mark Daniel Kuykendall, known as The New Honey Shade, steps back from his usual manipulated field recordings for Stillwater Rooms — five untitled harp improvisations recorded this summer on Wild Mountain, Osage County, Oklahoma, where he has spent recent years listening to its flora and fauna.
Album Reviews
Recorded after Luluc's return to Australia, Sweet Thief is a whispered record of '60s-inflected melodies and soft harmonies, examining how beauty, exploitation and existential unease coexist beneath modernity's polished surface.
Album Reviews
Five years on, Gordon Chapman-Fox revisits People & Industry — WRNTDP's tribute to the coal, chemical and car industries once booming around Warrington and Runcorn. This Castles in Space deluxe edition adds four previously vinyl-only bonus tracks to the 2021 original.
Essays
The Green Man carved into English churches isn't a buried pagan god. The same face recurs, independently, from Hindu temple lintels to Islamic folklore, Slavic ritual and Arthurian romance — one instinct, no shared bloodline.
Album Reviews
Her third record leaves solitary folk behind for horns, electric piano, ominous percussion — the arrangements finally catching up with lyrics that move from burned women to hospital machines, restless by design.
Essays
Some British paths have lasted longer than the church, station or ceremony that once gave people a reason to walk them. The line survives, although much of the life that made it necessary has disappeared from view.