Essays
Composing the Void: Seven Voices Beside Grouper's
Seven voices beyond Grouper, from Ana Roxanne to Nivhek, past the word
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Long-form writing on the afterlives of songs, images, places and ideas. A ballad crosses languages and centuries; a reservoir covers a village; an olive grove loses its sound; a film score alters the country beneath it. Hwael follows these connections through music, folklore, landscape, memory and cultural history.
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The Guitar Gives Way: Daniel Bachman in Five Records
An essay on Daniel Bachman’s guitar and the Virginia sounds that joined it.
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The Tape Upstairs
How The Sound’s records were shaped by home tapes, lost budgets and borrowed instruments.
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The Durutti Column: Listening to Vini Reilly in Five Pairs
Essay on Durutti Column: Vini Reilly, the catalogue and five listening pairs.
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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.
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Ichiko Aoba and the Fifth Verse
Essay on Ichiko Aoba, Hateruma and who keeps an island song alive.
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Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Windham Hill’s white sleeves and the discontinuous catalogue behind them
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Kept in Japan
David Sylvian, Sakamoto and the things Japan kept after he let them go
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A Stone Without a Story
Flint: Where Folk Belief Placed the Power of the Stone
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Ambient Folk 2010–2026: The Tradition Supplies the Drone
Ambient Folk After 2010: Tradition, Platforms and the Drone
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The Road Before the Sea: Ben Watt, 1981–83
Ben Watt's North Marine Drive and the coast it only knows by report
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A Name Under the Record
The Tonearm, Bandcamp's margin and what it costs to choose a record