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Jennifer Lucy Allan

Things I Have Learned

Lara Rix-Martin on The Heavy Existentialism of Soviet Sci-fi

Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
Rum Music

Rum Music for September Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From swampy squalls of Floridian grot rock to wriggling and stuttering cello, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with your latest dose of Rum Music

Rum Music

Rum Music for July Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more
Rum Music

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Multiple lo-fi drum machine projects and mumbling punks in this month's trip around the Rum Music universe, plus orchestras warming up, a soundtrack to a Japanese staging of Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love, and more
News

Open Ear Festival: David Donohoe & Kate Carr Interviewed

Ahead of this year's Open Ear Festival on Sherkin Island, Cork, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to David Donohoe and Kate Carr about their durational composition inspired by and using the sounds and history of the place

Rum Music

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with her latest Rum Music dispatch, this month featuring, the magical hidden sounds of Trondheim trams, highlights from the London “non-music” scene and more

Rum Music

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Guitar solos, shouted song from Uyghur folk traditions, a French duo under one name and a Quebecois miscellany in the first Rum Music outing of 2024, reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Columns of the Year

Rum Music: The Best Of 2023 Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Another trip around the sun for the weightless world of Rum Music, reviewed and rounded up by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Two bananas, Antipodean Suicide, and a home-made instrument inspired by a dream in which ecstatic music was made from an instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XXV: French Acid-Medieval Folk Revival

In this month's injection of our antidote to the algorithm into our subscriber's inboxes, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through the Medieval-inspired French folk revival, featuring Los Deu Lavarth (pictured) and the Gallic answer to Tangerine Dream
Rum Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Woodwind multiples, early Indian electronic music, caustic Brazilian reworks and John Fahey as you've never heard him before reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan in this month's trip into the lesser travelled interior
Rum Music

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Audience as rabble, song as ancient history and poetry as sound in this month's Rum Music

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan On Inspector Morse’s Rave Episode

In this month's Low Culture essay, Jennifer Lucy Allan rewatches the infamous rave episode of 90s TV detective drama Inspector Morse, and discovers that while he might have preferred lunchtime ale to nocturnal pingers, the Oxford detective knew all about a comedown
Rum Music

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Coastal gamelan, Taiwanese folk song, live recordings on cassette and tears for love and loss in this month's selection from The Zone

Black Sky Thinking

How Vic & Bob’s Mulligan & O’Hare Got Me Into Experimental Music, By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan explains how a childhood love of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's avant-folk duo Mulligan & O'Hare opened her ears to the avant-garde, and realising that the most 'serious' music can often be a total hoot
Rum Music

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Pianoisms from the pacific northwest, gothic doll makers' demo tapes and a Tuareg classic in the making in this months' Rum Music.

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Phew

Ahead of Phew's appearance at this year's Intonal Festival and the recent Mute reissue of Our Likeness, Jennifer Lucy Allan offers us ten points of entry into the back catalogue of the Japanese artist, aka Hiromi Moritani
Columns of the Year

Rum Music: The Best Of 2022 Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan plucks her essential releases from this year's onslaught of sonic activity in the Zone, from hurdy gurdy and home-made modulars to gamelan and music made under Swedish bridges

Art

There Will Be Mud: Contemporary Ceramics At The Hayward

A new show on London’s South Bank brings together big names like Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal with lesser known ceramic artists, such as Lubna Chowdhary, Salvatore Arancio, and Klara Kristalova
Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music returns for another trip around the zone, with new sounds from everyone's favourite pianist nun, traditional music of South London, and thresholds conjured and transgressed
Rum Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan looks at acoustic instruments exploring machine-like qualities, from hurdy gurdy to gamelan, plus porcelain percussion, a cello, and a question over a drum machine, in this month's Rum Music
Rum Music

Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is back with a batch of free music, fern music, fallible music and the crushing weight of catholic guilt made sonic
Rum Music

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's latest dispatch from the zone features an extraordinary compilation from a Shenzen label and bookshop, archival recordings of one of the greatest Māori singers of all time, and a special album from Cheri Knight
Art

Lourdes A Leaping: Laibach x Andrei Molodkin

In an unusual collaboration with dissident Russian artist Andrei Molodkin, Laibach take over the Foundry, a post-industrial art space near Lourdes, France. Words by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Books

The Foghorn’s Lament: Extended Play

To mark the paperback edition of her book, Jennifer Lucy Allan compiles the sounds and stories that have emerged since publication of The Foghorn's Lament

Low Culture Essay

Will Your Anchor Hold? 75 Dollar Bill Interviewed

As 75 Dollar Bill release the latest in our Singularity series of tracks, exclusive to our Sound & Vision subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan asks them about defying genre and pattern building
Rum Music

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Just intonation electric guitars, third ears cast in plastic, and a crucial henge of minimalist composition in a hot month for The Zone on holiday

A Quietus Interview

Electric Light Orchestra: Viridian Ensemble Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to four members of the Bristol group who experiment with music and film, prompted by 12th century texts about women's medicine, shrimp in the West Country, and finding the edges of their instruments
A Quietus Interview

Pipe Dream: Wojciech Rusin Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the Polish musician and artist about his 3D printed pipes, his alchemical albums of speculative medieval music and what happens when you put a giant inflatable object on stage
Rum Music

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan encounters puppies, performance art and sound poetry, plus the polished versions of Les Rallizes Denudes, in a busy trip into The Zone
Reviews

Locked In, Locked Out: Gifted By Koffee

Rising reggae star Koffee follows up a string of dazzling singles with a debut album that doesn't quite live up to the promise, finds Jennifer Lucy Allan
Rum Music

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Molam gems, Ainu traditional music and experimental hurdy gurdy in Jennifer Lucy Allan's excursion into international sonic hinterlands
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