Clara Schumann had one of the most extraordinary lives in 19th century music, says Phil Hebblethwaite. Against the odds, she made it as a pianist, and she ought to have been recognised as a great composer too
Sophie Coletta, Luke Turner and Sonja Matuszczyk visited Berlin last month for the sixteenth edition of CTM festival. Here's what they saw, in and amongst their thankfully edited out moments of debauchery. Photos: Udo Siegfriedt, Fausto Caricato, Benjamin Renter and Marco Microbi
Sex Swing speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their formidable new track ‘Wild Peacock’. An 18-minute epic, improvised during rehearsal and writing sessions for their next album, it’s available now exclusively for Quietus Sound + Vision subscribers.
Strong new albums from Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, and New Hermitage nonchalantly reach beyond the language of jazz without abandoning its fundamental improvisational core, says Peter Margasak