Rum Music

Casting the net for undefineable sounds

Rum Music for August Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From cross-century kantele duets to roaring cellos, bagpipe drones and an essential artefact from the 1980s Hungarian underground, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with your latest Rum Music roundup

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Rum Music for June Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Sound poetry, percussions, vowels sung in imitation of angels, emissions from the French underground, and an album entirely of water droplets – it's the latest edition of Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music

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Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, re-tuned fiddles that wallop and croon in equal measure, clattering 1980s Japanese post punk and more

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Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Guitars and more guitars and other, different guitars are staving off the January blues for Jennifer Lucy Allan, who returns with your latest trip to the world of Rum

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Rum Music for November Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan returns from this month's trip around the Rum Music universe with a 7CD boxset of sonic enlightenment, live solo drum tapes from one of the year's greatest gigs, and more

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Rum Music for September Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From swampy squalls of Floridian grot rock to wriggling and stuttering cello, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with your latest dose of Rum Music

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Rum Music for July Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more

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Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Multiple lo-fi drum machine projects and mumbling punks in this month's trip around the Rum Music universe, plus orchestras warming up, a soundtrack to a Japanese staging of Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love, and more

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Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with her latest Rum Music dispatch, this month featuring, the magical hidden sounds of Trondheim trams, highlights from the London “non-music” scene and more

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Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Guitar solos, shouted song from Uyghur folk traditions, a French duo under one name and a Quebecois miscellany in the first Rum Music outing of 2024, reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

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Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Two bananas, Antipodean Suicide, and a home-made instrument inspired by a dream in which ecstatic music was made from an instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord

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Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Woodwind multiples, early Indian electronic music, caustic Brazilian reworks and John Fahey as you've never heard him before reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan in this month's trip into the lesser travelled interior

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Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Audience as rabble, song as ancient history and poetry as sound in this month's Rum Music

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Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Coastal gamelan, Taiwanese folk song, live recordings on cassette and tears for love and loss in this month's selection from The Zone

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Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Pianoisms from the pacific northwest, gothic doll makers' demo tapes and a Tuareg classic in the making in this months' Rum Music.

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Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music returns for another trip around the zone, with new sounds from everyone's favourite pianist nun, traditional music of South London, and thresholds conjured and transgressed

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Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan looks at acoustic instruments exploring machine-like qualities, from hurdy gurdy to gamelan, plus porcelain percussion, a cello, and a question over a drum machine, in this month's Rum Music

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Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is back with a batch of free music, fern music, fallible music and the crushing weight of catholic guilt made sonic

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Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's latest dispatch from the zone features an extraordinary compilation from a Shenzen label and bookshop, archival recordings of one of the greatest Māori singers of all time, and a special album from Cheri Knight

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Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Just intonation electric guitars, third ears cast in plastic, and a crucial henge of minimalist composition in a hot month for The Zone on holiday

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Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan encounters puppies, performance art and sound poetry, plus the polished versions of Les Rallizes Denudes, in a busy trip into The Zone

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Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Molam gems, Ainu traditional music and experimental hurdy gurdy in Jennifer Lucy Allan's excursion into international sonic hinterlands

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Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Muscular guitars, bakery based sound poetry and percussive patterns from Indonesia feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan's first roundup of the new year

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Rum Music: The Best Out Music Of 2021

Jennifer Lucy Allan looks back at a stop start year and rounds up a grab bag of feral favourites from The Zone

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Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Senyawa say no to streaming services and the unGoogleable Heavy Metal finally drop their fifth album, as Jennifer Lucy Allan sends her latest report back from The Zone

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Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Junglism sieved through the ionosphere and bodies of water, and Japanese rock bootleg anguish are just two of the things covered in this month's roundup of The Zone courtesy of Jennifer Lucy Allan

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Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Insect percussions, haunted workouts, hungry shells and phasing saxophones in this month's bumper back-to-school edition surveying sound and music's outer limits and inner spaces.

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Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Hi-fidelity plunderphonics from Vietnam, synths with no wrong speed from Rotterdam, and the cosmic undulations of narrative vaporwave in Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music excursion for July

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Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

TQ's Rum Music correspondent Jennifer Lucy Allan reacquaints herself with the club and recounts her month of listening, from Rusyn folk songs to syrupy productions from São Paulo and fireworks made rhythmic

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Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan encounters ecstatic drones, dub-warped sewer punk and Medieval songs from the Swedish underground in this month's trip into The Zone

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Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is back with new electronic music from Peru, wobbling organs and off kilter synths from Japan and Arizona, plus the Hardy Guidey Man doing covers of the Rolling Stones in this month’s staycation in The Zone

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Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan digs a big hole and flits around new releases that take in short locked grooves and extended multiphonic drones in this month’s letter from The Zone

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Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jaw-dropping group jazz from London, psychedelic harsh noise from Japan, and a whole lot of torn up blues, are just some of the things Jennifer Lucy Allan investigates in this month’s expedition to The Zone

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Rum Music for August Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for June Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for November Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for September Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music for July Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music: The Best Out Music Of 2021

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

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