Reviews
A selection of key reviews from past sold-out issues
Vincent Gallo - Recordings Of Music For Films
An archive of flickers and ghosts and weather probes, each track a different exploration of instrumental tone and texture.
Maxime De La Rochefoucald Avec Les Automates Ki
The Montreal-based sound sculptor showcases his unique automaton orchestra of everyday objects that includes springs, cans, boxes, lamps and bottles...
Hermann Nitsch - Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters Day 5
Hermann Nitsch's carefully choreographed performance art frequently involves cacophonous noise, buckets of blood and animal dismemberment, turning gory excess into ritualistic spectacle...
Susie Ibarra Trio - Songbird Suite
Songbird Suite is compelling enough upon first hearing to prompt closer scrutiny
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams
A record which captures Otomo's exuberant, open hearted love of music
Holger Czukay - Good Morning Story
The skilful way Czukay constructs so evocative a musical narrative makes a powerful case for his continued relevance...
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Universal Consciousness is one of those albums that pushed deep into the unknown, then returned with riches that seemed impossible to evaluate. 30 years later, are we any the wiser?
Captain Beefheart - Dust Sucker
The full story of Captain Beefheart's ill-fated Bat Chain Puller - potentially his greatest musical statement after Trout Mask Replica - has already been admirably documented in Mike Barnes's biography...