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Album of the Week
More Fire! The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane become accelerating vectors , fast-forwarding jazz to new worlds on the new Comet is Coming album. But Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery could appeal just as well to clubbers, grime fans and football hooligans, finds Mike Vinti
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical on Henryk Górecki: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
The release of a new version of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 with vocals from Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is cleverly timed, says Phil Hebblethwaite. When the piece was first a hit in the early-90s, it offered respite at a similarly turbulent moment in history
Anniversary
The Olivia Tremor Control’s Black Foliage Revisited
Sean Kitching talks to Olivia Tremor Control co-founder, Will Cullen Hart, about re-injecting the psychedelic into 60s psych pop and the less immediately apparent influences that inspired The Olivia Tremor Control’s 1999 magnum opus, Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
Black Sky Thinking
Why Radio 3’s Cuts Are Wrong: 550+ Artists & More Sign Letter To The BBC
Hundreds of musicians, curators, academics and more, from Brian Eno to Nitin Sawhney, Shirley Collins to Stewart Lee and Roisin Murphy, sign an open letter to the BBC about their disastrous cuts to their scheduling
The Quietus International
New Weird Russia – #3 St. Petersburg
In the third of a series on the current Russian alternative music scene, we call on St Petersburg and find out how past glories still play a part, where club culture and improvised spaces drive scenes and why the city has a #moody reputation. And discover some committed and blockbusting rock-electro hybrids. Disclaimer! No battle rap!
Black Sky Thinking
Why The BBC’s Radio Cuts Are A Disaster For Our Cultural Health
Last week the BBC announced swingeing cuts to its leftfield programming on Radio 3, with Late Junction, Jazz Now and Music Planet hit. Richard Foster argues this is a short-sighted decision with far-reaching consequences
A Quietus Interview
Kick Out The Jams: Kikagaku Moyo Interviewed
Their unique brand of acid-tinged folk and psychedelic rock has seen the Japanese quintet break free from the constraints of their hometown scene. Derek Robertson meets them in Amsterdam to talk jam sessions, running a label, and why DIY is not necessarily the future
Books
I Am Reality: Butthole Surfers In Coffee Table Book Shocker
A lavish coffee table book about the Butthole Surfers may seem like a strange idea, but, finds Richard Fontenoy, Aaron Tanner's What Does Regret Mean succeeds in painting a vivid and persisting picture of what was at one point probably the most outrageous band the world had seen
A Quietus Interview
Language Defines Who You Are: An Interview With Charlotte Adigéry
A week ahead of two gigs in London and an appearance at Out The Frame festival in Ghent, Adam Quarshie caught up with Charlotte Adigéry to discuss ASMR videos, singing in multiple languages and the politics of hair
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Sublime Frequencies
Ahead of a night dedicated to the label as part of Berlin's Find The File festival, Alan Bishop, one of the founders of Sublime Frequencies, picks ten points of entry into the crucial label's extraordinary back catalogue of sounds from across the globe
