Composing the Void: Seven Voices Beside Grouper's
Seven voices beyond Grouper, from Ana Roxanne to Nivhek, past the word
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Iosonouncane :: Zustissia
Film score: Iosonouncane on the Zuncheddu case, titled like a court file.
Ex:Re :: Save As
Art pop: Elena Tonra’s second Ex:Re album keeps its demos inside the finished songs.
MANAS :: The most yielding thing in the world will overcome the most rigid
Experimental: MANAS turn a film score and a line of Lao Tzu into a duo record.
Mark Jenkin :: Rose of Nevada
Mark Jenkin’s Cornish ghost ship, where nostalgia becomes a job.
Sam Grassie :: Grassie & Band, live
Folk blues live set: a fingerstyle guitarist hands his songs to a band.
Elanor Moss: Company and Consolation
An interview with Elanor Moss about recording The Knife, The Needle to tape.
The Guitar Gives Way: Daniel Bachman in Five Records
An essay on Daniel Bachman’s guitar and the Virginia sounds that joined it.
The Tape Upstairs
How The Sound’s records were shaped by home tapes, lost budgets and borrowed instruments.
Clara Mann :: Wishbone
Folk ballads on trust: Clara Mann stops carrying her songs alone.
Bow and Arrow :: Bow and Arrow
Devotional folk and electronics: repetition has to earn every return.
Wendy Eisenberg :: Wweennddyy Eeiisseennbbeerrgg
Experimental folk: two memory songs stretched until the band becomes the form.
Second Hearing
Connie Converse :: How Sad, How Lovely
Folk recorded in two rooms: the singer-songwriter already had listeners.
Album Reviews
Eric Angelo Bessel :: Illusion of an Inland Ocean
Ambient from a Mellotron, a field job in Oregon and the inland side of a coast.
Essays
The Durutti Column: Listening to Vini Reilly in Five Pairs
Essay on Durutti Column: Vini Reilly, the catalogue and five listening pairs.
Album Reviews
From A Harbour Softly Drawn :: Shepherds
Ambient jazz: a summer of attic sessions with friends, resampled years later.
Album Reviews
Polonius :: Anaxia (Original Soundtrack)
Film score and cassette fantasy: Polonius builds Razooli’s Oskexis out of tape.
Essays
Tapes T370 to T372
Lomax and Carpitella's 1954 Puglia tapes, the blanks beside them, and the evening in 2018 that began to fill them.
Album Reviews
Darren Hayman :: I’m Your Team
Pop elegy: Darren Hayman makes three discarded machines learn to stay.
Film Reviews
Athina Rachel Tsangari :: Harvest
Folk western on enclosure: a village that keeps its borders in the body.
Album Reviews
devonwho :: tv2
Drumless electronica: devonwho lets arpeggios do the work of the beat.
Essays
Ichiko Aoba and the Fifth Verse
Essay on Ichiko Aoba, Hateruma and who keeps an island song alive.
Film Reviews
Vittorio De Seta :: The Lost World (1954-1959)
Documentary shorts on southern labour, song and sea, Italy 1954–59.
Album Reviews
Ian Hawgood :: all these places, together
Ambient on tape: Ian Hawgood gathers friends’ field recordings into one instance.