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Books
100 Formaldehyde Hydro 7″s To Sell: Stanzas From The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass
In the new book by tQ's very own Aug Stone, two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass’ Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping and what it’s like to be in your first band
Anniversary
Rediscovering Ripeness: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Porcupine At 40
Richard Foster considers Marvin The Paranoid Android, the charnel house-like plays of Jacobean England and the owl of Athena (and speaks to Will Sergeant) while writing about Echo & The Bunnymen's oft-misunderstood third long player
Books
Activity Maps: How Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse Revolutionised Art Education
Roy Ascott’s Groundcourse rewired the brains of a generation of art students and turned Brian Eno and Pete Townshend on to cybernetic thinking. In an exclusive extract from his new book *Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave*, Simon Strange explores the ideas behind the course and the strange activities it inspired
Music Downloads
Miracle Sheep: An Interview With Slow Tree
Slow Tree, the Skye-based project of Sea Power's Abi Fry and Neil Wilkinson, tell Luke Turner how the remote landscape of their home island, collaborating with a local wren called Choco, the magic of sheep and ancient martial arts informed their 25-minute track recorded exclusively for Quietus subscribers
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Wolf Eyes V/A – Difficult Messages
A compilation dredged together from a series of private press recordings of the core Wolf Eyes crew collaborating with friends is the perfect weird prism through which to examine the lockdown period we've just been through, says Daryl Worthington
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Chris Watson
Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak
A stunning mid-70s discovery of metamusician Don Cherry found in the GRM vaults, a victory lap for the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, and a furious live session from Connecticut are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
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