Posts Tagged: Jeremy Bye

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

Emery Dobyns ~ Improvs

Without wishing to generalise, reviewers prefer covering debut albums. Introducing a fresh artist’s music to a new group of potential followers provides a mild fillip for the writer who can say that they have been on board from the start.

Emery Dobyns ~ Improvs

Without wishing to generalise, reviewers prefer covering debut albums. Introducing a fresh artist’s music to a new group of potential followers provides a mild fillip for the writer who can say that they have been on board from the start.

Kieran Hebden + William Tyler ~ 41 Longfield Street Late 80s

We have covered releases by both William Tyler (as recently as 23rd April this year) and Kieran Hebden (as Four Tet), but even so, this is a surprising collaboration that originally appeared on the single “Darkness, Darkness” / “No Services”

Kieran Hebden + William Tyler ~ 41 Longfield Street Late 80s

We have covered releases by both William Tyler (as recently as 23rd April this year) and Kieran Hebden (as Four Tet), but even so, this is a surprising collaboration that originally appeared on the single “Darkness, Darkness” / “No Services”