Danny Riley

Things Learned At: Woodland Gathering

Woodland Gathering provides esoteric, DIY brilliance with The Cosmic Dead, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Conny Prantera and more

Trembling Bells

Dungeness

Medieval, experimental, freakish, sexy and spiritual: Trembling Bells’ new album is a folk-rock triumph.

ADT

Insecurities

Sax squawks, electronic bleeps and textural surprises: squelching jazz improv from Chicago.

Jim Ghedi

A Hymn For Ancient Land

Heartfelt 12-string guitar composition from the Sheffield trad folk player, who sometimes goes a bit too far with the bucolic bliss

Greg Fox

The Gradual Progression

With the help of Sensory Percussion, Greg Fox brings us black metal fury and jazz fusion pyrotechnics

Danny Riley On Richard Dawson’s Peasant

In Peasant, the notoriously difficult eight album from Richard Dawson, Danny Riley finds a work reclaiming meaning of words like "folk" and "community," a complex parable and a force for unification in divisive times

Mutated Tradition: An Interview With Konstrukt

Konstrukt’s avant-everything out-jazz is striking fear into the heart of jazz purists across the planet. Danny Riley caught up with their guitarist to talk tradition, techno and improvisation

Ascent Is Immanent: The Strange World Of Ben Chasny

Ben Chasny is an outlier in the world of psychedelic music, going deeper and further than any of his contemporaries in the field. Danny Riley caught up with him talk about his idiosyncratic vision

Danny Riley on Shirley Collins’ Lodestar

In Shirley Collins' first solo album in 40 years, Danny Riley finds a a sonic continuum blurring the British folk tradition with the farthest outliers of the country's hidden musical history

Horns Of Consecration: Xylouris White Interviewed

Xylouris White's new album Black Peak is a startling mixture of Cretan traditional music, punk rock and fiery improvisation. Danny Riley catches up with the drum and lute duo to discuss how this strange brew came together

Danny Riley on Grumbling Fur’s Furfour

Grumbling Fur’s new album finds them setting new precedents for both the pop world and the underground while refusing to conform to either of those ghettos. Danny Riley explores its weird overcurrents and winning pop tones.

Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed

Before electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani and fellow Buchla synth enthusiast Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith release their new LP, they tell Danny Riley about nature, synaesthesia and the sensory qualities of Sean Connery's voice

Music Of The Spheres: Rhys Chatham’s Favourite Albums

The veteran avant-garde composer picks records by Morton Subotnick, Charlemagne Palestine and Maryanne Amacher and more to tell Danny Riley how his music, including new album Pythagorean Dream, has evolved

Time Is Elastic: An Interview With Selvhenter

Wreaking destruction on musical idioms through their harsh approach to group composition, the Danish five-piece are the band you wish all those working under the banner of 'heavy music' were like, says Danny Riley

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare

Kikagaku Moyo

House In The Tall Grass

Speak, Memory: An Interview With Matthew Bourne

Entranced by the sonic capabilities of the final synthesiser produced by Moog, the pianist and composer resolved to dedicate his new album to the machine. He tells Danny Riley about coaxing memorymoog out of the keys

Serious Vibe: Dave Okumu Of The Invisible’s Favourite Albums

Before he plays Convergence festival, the prolific singer and guitarist speaks to Danny Riley about the albums that have shaped his musical life, including D'Angelo, Aphex Twin and "diminutive funk goblin" Prince

Bert Jansch

Avocet (Reissue)

INTERVIEW: TĀLĀ

The up-and-coming UK singer speaks to Danny Riley about her recent EP and fascination with Electro Chaabi

Laura Cannell

Swooping Talons Remixes

Six Organs Of Admittance

Hexadic II

Things Learned At: Le Guess Who?

Danny Riley reports from Utrecht, on sets from SunnO))), Magma, Eric Chenaux, Kamasi Washington and more.

Things Learned At: Simple Things

Noisy upstarts upstage the heritage acts at Bristol's annual Simple Things Festival, as reported by Danny Riley

Voice Of The Eagle: The Enigma Of Robbie Basho Reviewed

Danny Riley reviews a new documentary about the American guitarist and mystic, Robbie Basho

Get Off Your Ass And Jam: Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura Interviewed

Purveyors of explosive live shows and chaotic jams, the Manchester guitar Arkestra talk to Danny Riley about being the new standard bearers for DIY transcendentalism in the UK and finding artistry in the undignified

Dungen

Allas Sak

45 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads

His Grinning Skull: Golden Teacher Interviewed

Golden Teacher's Sam Bellacosa helps Danny Riley get to grips with the nature of the 12-legged Glaswegian punk-funk-afro-sonic experimentalist party band as they come to the end of their UK tour

LIVE REPORT: Gnod & Anthroprophh

Danny Riley attends a Buckfast-fuelled Rocket Recordings night in Bristol

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke

Behold

Fragments Of Fragments: An Interview With Laura Cannell

Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project