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A Quietus Interview
Art Power: An Interview With Khidja
Ahead of the carbon-negative Currents Festival held in a reactivated German power station, curators Khidja as well as the venue’s curator discuss the many lines they hope to draw with their artistically and environmentally ambitious first edition
Black Sky Thinking
Surfing The Lad Totale: Lias Saoudi On Supporting Liam At Knebworth
This summer, Fat White Family supported Liam Gallagher at his Knebworth enormagig. Writing for tQ, Lias Saoudi recalls the excesses of ego, self-debasement, see-through Spanx and sachets of butter required to face the bucket hat hordes.
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Recently discovered free jazz gems from Los Angeles and Berlin, orchestral free jazz spiked by West African grooves, folk-jazz tracing the history of indigenous North American Wabanaki people, and dynamic dice-and-splice free jazz assemblages from LA are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music.
Anniversary
Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD
40 years since the first album was released on CD, Daryl Worthington pays tribute to the unique experimental potential of the format, explores how it changed the parameters of the album itself, and wonders why it’s still not thought of as fondly as cassettes and LPs
Music Downloads
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
