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The City In Sound: Wacław Zimpel Interviewed
Recorded exclusively for Quietus subscribers’ Autumn Equinox release, Wacław Zimpel’s new Train Spotter sees the Polish composer translate the sounds of Warsaw into a sprawling and intense album. He speaks to Julian Marszalek about the record’s creation
A Quietus Interview
New Jazz Imagination: Seymour Wright On [Ahmed] And Music As A Medium Of Thought
In the first of a new series of essays on non European cultural influences on experimental music, Seymour Wright of improvisational group أحمد [Ahmed] writes on the constant inspiration of Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Books
Lust For Life: Tana Douglas Hits The Road With Iggy Pop In 78
In the 1970s, Tana Douglas was rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. In an exclusive extract from her new book, *LOUD: A Life in Rock 'n' Roll by the World's First Female Roadie*, she recalls the 18th birthday she spent fixing Iggy Pop’s sound rig
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Elsewhere VXIII
Though this ravishing compilation of rhythms, drones and folk tales draws lines across myriad cultures, Neil Kulkarni hears in it a sense of glorious confusion rather than straightforward commonality. This record is not reassuring, he says, but revolutionary
A Quietus Interview
Keeping It Physical: Suede Interviewed
As Suede release new album Autofiction, Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman about being reborn as a brand new band. and the complex transactional relationship between artist and audience. Suede portrait – Dean Chalkley, live – Paul Khera
Black Sky Thinking
Sensation Nation: Blair, Oasis, Cocaine, Diana & British Maximalism 1997
Twenty-five years ago, Ian MacMillan was an arts writer and TV producer witnessing the madness of the YBA's Sensation exhibition first hand. Looking back, he argues it was representative of a shallow yet maximalist moment in British culture
