Take Four: EFG London Jazz Festival Preview

Stewart Smith picks highlights from this year's programme at the EFG London Jazz Festival, from supergroup [Ahmed] to new work by saxophonist Xhosa Cole (pictured below), unique collaborations and a night celebrating jazz on British telly.

What Does Dying Sound Like? Music And The Near Death Experience

When Haitao Yang was shot in the head, it brought him to within touching distance of death, an experience that has profoundly influenced his music ever since, but he's not alone. Jak Hutchcraft investigates the bizarre and sometimes disturbing world of music and the near death experience. With thanks to Daniel Hall

LISTEN: New VED On Rocket Recordings

Rocket Recordings continue to bring us Sweden's finest psych. Listen to 'DDTT' from Malmö five-piece VED

Siouxsie & The Banshees

Reissues

My Music Is My Religion: Heather Leigh Interviewed

Eden Tizard talks to experimental musician Heather Leigh about her latest solo album Throne and her debut studio-based collaboration with Peter Brötzmann as a duo, Sparrow Nights

Moodymann

Moodymann

Even Stranger Things: Carl Neville On WW Jacobs’ The Monkey’s Paw

In an exclusive extract from the new Repeater Book of the Occult, published this week, author Carl Neville introduces WW Jacobs' classic short story, 'The Monkey's Paw'

Being In Love Is A Sticky Place: Elvia Wilk’s Death By Landscape

An essay collection by Elvia Wilk draws links between Jenny Hval, Mark Fisher, and Hildegard von Bingen

Matthew Edwards And The Unfortunates

The Fates

Life After Brainiac: John Schmersal Of Vertical Scratchers Interviewed

Master Of The Dough, Stevie Chick talks to John Schmersal of Brainiac and Enon about keeping busy with Caribou, Crooks On Tape and Vertical Scratchers

HWI

Humanly Possible

South Korean audio-visual artist and electronic producer HWI is a natural explorer on her debut album, writes Skye Butchard

Martyyna

Written in the Scars

Czech producer weaves trauma into fractured and futuristic post-techno

RVNG Intl. Launches Crowdfund For Pauline Anna Strom

New York label RVNG Intl. is hoping that a crowdfunder will raise money to help pay Pauline Anna Strom's hospital bills

The Unanswered Question: Irmin Schmidt Interviewed

Few post-war musicians can match Irmin Schmidt’s creative drive, says Duncan Seaman. The veteran musician, composer and Can founder, talks about his Villa Wunderbar anthology of film music and solo work and his upcoming live shows

Food For Thought: An A To Z Guide To Melvins’ Stag

To celebrate the 25th birthday of Melvins' bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users' manual to what the hell was going on


Mdou Moctar Rework Latest LP on New Record, ‘Tears Of Injustice’

It's a re-recorded and rearranged version of 'Funeral For Justice'