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Disconnection Commands Attention: Rum Music With Russell Cuzner
Russell Cuzner takes a strictly offline survey of our more un-genre-fied neighbourhoods & finds unusual proportions of rhythmic matter, including the latest displacements from Marja Ahti, Alexandra Spence, UnicaZürn, Julio “Chocolate” Algendones, Qasim Naqvi, Jim Haynes and Phew / Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke
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Listening With Uncertainty: Rum Music With Russell Cuzner
In which, upon its re-opening, we find the Rum Music Library haunted by the playback of an unlocatable recording as staff try to round up 2019’s first batch of sounds from the un-genre-ground, including the latest releases from Black to Comm, Howlround, Annabelle Playe, Andrew Liles, Rudolf Eb.er, Gaël Segalen, Sion Orgon and Maja Ratkje
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Rum Music: Lending An Ear On Borrowed Time, With Russell Cuzner
In which a mysterious presentation enhances the listening powers of staff at the Rum Music Library as they go on to pick Spring’s most profound experiences in sound, including the latest releases from Russell Haswell, Francisco López, Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley, Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Zbigniew Karkowski
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Extra-Auditory Adventures: Rum Music For March By Russell Cuzner
An officious and unwanted audit leads the Rum Music Library to finally articulate a clear and honest policy behind the magical sounds it seeks. Russell Cuzner lists potent sonic spells in the form of the latest releases from Unicazürn, Dave Phillips, Olivia Block, Mira Calix and Daniel Menche
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Rum Music: The Best Of 2016 With Russell Cuzner
Compiling an end of year ‘top ten’ of music from the more undefinable end of the sonic spectrum always proves challenging for the Rum Music Library. But, being more accustomed to stubbornly standing with difficulty than rolling over into the recovery position of enjoyment, Russell Cuzner has risen to the challenge to highlight how 2016 has provided the widest range yet of audacious audio experiences from music’s borderlands
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Out With The Old Withholds The New: Rum Music By Russell Cuzner
Russell Cuzner surrenders to the vast repository of all sound, where he finds artists using old doors to arrive in new worlds. Follow him on a journey that takes in Thomas Brinkmann’s genetically-modified piano, Æthenor’s automatic odyssey, Delphine Dora’s avant-occultism, Lustmord’s deep space devotion and diverse other encounters in Rum sounds from outwith
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Soundheads vs Syn-aesthetes: August’s Rum Music by Russell Cuzner
A wave of synaesthesia leaves Russell Cuzner’s senses working overtime as he reads, sees, feels and is touched by the latest in outsider audio from David Toop, Valerio Tricoli, Andrew Liles, Claire M Singer and more. Homepage photo courtesy of Fabio Lugaro
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Out Of Control: Rum Music For June Reviewed By Russell Cuzner
While rounding up the darkest and brightest of recent releases from Nurse With Wound, Norman Westerberg and Maja S.K. Ratkje, Russell Cuzner receives an unexpected message that calls control into question, asking what role it plays not only in composing and playing, but also in listening... Nurse With Wound live shots by Samantha Hayley
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Turn And Face The Strange: Rum Music By Russell Cuzner
In this latest set of rum-inations Russell Cuzner hears that music need not exist, while finding it almost everywhere - in the movements between notes to a chorale of insects – including releases by Thomas Koner, Catherine Christer Hennix and Chris Watson. Mix by Russell Cuzner
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LISTEN: Russell Cuzner’s Rum Music Best Of 2015 Mix
Listen in to to this year’s celebrations at the borderlands of music and sound with a specially recorded mix. Over the course of an hour we present an overview of 2015’s wide and varied audio interrogations from the stranger end of the sonic spectrum
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