Eden Tizard
Album of the Week
Purple People Eater: DJ K’s Radio Libertadora!
With his bruxaria sound, DJ K is working at the very limits of Brazilian funk. Eden Tizard dives into his latest album RADIO LIBERTADORA!, exploring the symbolic resonance of the colour purple, new sonic thresholds to adapt to, and a project of revolutionary witchcraft
Album of the Week
Purple People Eater: DJ K’s Radio Libertadora!
With his bruxaria sound, DJ K is working at the very limits of Brazilian funk. Eden Tizard dives into his latest album RADIO LIBERTADORA!, exploring the symbolic resonance of the colour purple, new sonic thresholds to adapt to, and a project of revolutionary witchcraft
A Quietus Interview
Beyond The Band: Geordie Greep Interviewed
Coming swiftly after the dissolution of Black Midi, Geordie Greep sets out on his own with an album informed by the music of Latin America, Brazil in particular. Ahead of the release of The New Sound, Eden Tizard speaks to Greep about the audacious new record. Cover photograph by James Potter
A Quietus Interview
Beyond The Band: Geordie Greep Interviewed
Coming swiftly after the dissolution of Black Midi, Geordie Greep sets out on his own with an album informed by the music of Latin America, Brazil in particular. Ahead of the release of The New Sound, Eden Tizard speaks to Greep about the audacious new record. Cover photograph by James Potter
Anniversary
The Fall’s Perverted By Language Revisited 40 Years On
On its 40th anniversary, Eden Tizard explores The Fall’s Perverted By Language, an album where Mark E. Smith turns his focus to the suburbs and its inhabitants. A key record in The Fall saga, featuring a group at a crossroads, on the hunt for a new mode of attack
Anniversary
The Fall’s Perverted By Language Revisited 40 Years On
On its 40th anniversary, Eden Tizard explores The Fall’s Perverted By Language, an album where Mark E. Smith turns his focus to the suburbs and its inhabitants. A key record in The Fall saga, featuring a group at a crossroads, on the hunt for a new mode of attack
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Arthur Russell’s Picture Of Bunny Rabbit
Since his passing in 1992, the cult of Russell has almost become a micro industry, and perhaps due to the volume of releases the promise of more may be met with weary indifference, a belief that the essentials must already be among us. Picture Of Bunny Rabbit proves such concerns to be foolhardy says Eden Tizard
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Arthur Russell’s Picture Of Bunny Rabbit
Since his passing in 1992, the cult of Russell has almost become a micro industry, and perhaps due to the volume of releases the promise of more may be met with weary indifference, a belief that the essentials must already be among us. Picture Of Bunny Rabbit proves such concerns to be foolhardy says Eden Tizard
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Form Grows Rampant By Threshold Houseboys Choir
Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson’s Threshold HouseBoys Choir in many ways continues the mission of latter day, lunar Coil, says Eden Tizard. This reissue demonstrates his unrelenting push forward, a life in art, a life cornered by instinct
Reissue of the Week
Reissue Of The Week: Form Grows Rampant By Threshold Houseboys Choir
Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson’s Threshold HouseBoys Choir in many ways continues the mission of latter day, lunar Coil, says Eden Tizard. This reissue demonstrates his unrelenting push forward, a life in art, a life cornered by instinct
A Quietus Interview
Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed
Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio
A Quietus Interview
Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed
Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio
Anniversary
Truly Ancient Truly Future: The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Nice Guys
With a back catalogue of over 50 challenging albums, it might look like there's no particularly easy way of cracking the enigma of the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Not so, says Eden Tizard, looking back at the group's first ECM album, Nice Guys, which was released 40 years ago this month
Anniversary
Truly Ancient Truly Future: The Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Nice Guys
With a back catalogue of over 50 challenging albums, it might look like there's no particularly easy way of cracking the enigma of the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Not so, says Eden Tizard, looking back at the group's first ECM album, Nice Guys, which was released 40 years ago this month
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