Author Archives: JB
Craven Faults ~ Sidings
Author JB Priestley is credited with coining the phrase ‘It’s Grim Up North’, reflecting upon the cities of the industrial revolution, houses and factories alike blackened with soot and smoke. It’s a tag that has stuck around, but it’s now
Craven Faults ~ Sidings
Author JB Priestley is credited with coining the phrase ‘It’s Grim Up North’, reflecting upon the cities of the industrial revolution, houses and factories alike blackened with soot and smoke. It’s a tag that has stuck around, but it’s now
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick ~ Tragic Magic
The Cottingley Fairies were a set of photographs that – for a while at least – proved the existence of fairies. They didn’t persuade everyone, but given this took place in 1917, and that the photographers were two cousins aged
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick ~ Tragic Magic
The Cottingley Fairies were a set of photographs that – for a while at least – proved the existence of fairies. They didn’t persuade everyone, but given this took place in 1917, and that the photographers were two cousins aged
Boundaries Festival, Sunderland
Boundaries celebrated its fifth edition last weekend, treating Sunderland to two days of experimental and adventurous music. Using multiple venues around the city centre – in fact, using the city centre as a venue itself – Boundaries is the kind
Boundaries Festival, Sunderland
Boundaries celebrated its fifth edition last weekend, treating Sunderland to two days of experimental and adventurous music. Using multiple venues around the city centre – in fact, using the city centre as a venue itself – Boundaries is the kind
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall ~ Magnetism
Drone music seems to lend itself to the feeling of displaced time. You can, for example, put on a CD, and drift away from the conscious realm so completely that the 70+ minute running time passes in what feels like
Kali Malone & Drew McDowall ~ Magnetism
Drone music seems to lend itself to the feeling of displaced time. You can, for example, put on a CD, and drift away from the conscious realm so completely that the 70+ minute running time passes in what feels like
Tortoise ~ Touch
International Anthem is celebrating its 11th Anniversary this year, and what better way to underline the label’s progression than to release the new Tortoise album, arguably their highest profile signing to date. Touch has been a while coming. International Anthem
Tortoise ~ Touch
International Anthem is celebrating its 11th Anniversary this year, and what better way to underline the label’s progression than to release the new Tortoise album, arguably their highest profile signing to date. Touch has been a while coming. International Anthem
Rural Tapes ~ Oneiric
I don’t sleep, I dream. When you wake (you’re still in a dream). Dream a little dream of me. The dreamer is still asleep. Dreams are like water, colourless and dangerous. You may recognise some of these songs, a sample
Rural Tapes ~ Oneiric
I don’t sleep, I dream. When you wake (you’re still in a dream). Dream a little dream of me. The dreamer is still asleep. Dreams are like water, colourless and dangerous. You may recognise some of these songs, a sample
Nobukazu Takemura ~ knot of meanings
It’s probably a very selective memory at work, but I associate the first time I heard Nobukazu Takemura’s music with the first time I heard computers singing. Other musicians had used MacInTalk, as it was called then, to provide a
Nobukazu Takemura ~ knot of meanings
It’s probably a very selective memory at work, but I associate the first time I heard Nobukazu Takemura’s music with the first time I heard computers singing. Other musicians had used MacInTalk, as it was called then, to provide a
Patrick Shiroishi ~ Forgetting Is Violent
Next year sees the 180th anniversary of the saxophone, an instrument that has flourished beyond anything its inventor could have imagined. A brass instrument that’s classified as woodwind, it arrived too late to really be part of a classical orchestra
Patrick Shiroishi ~ Forgetting Is Violent
Next year sees the 180th anniversary of the saxophone, an instrument that has flourished beyond anything its inventor could have imagined. A brass instrument that’s classified as woodwind, it arrived too late to really be part of a classical orchestra
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