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Rum Music for August Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From cross-century kantele duets to roaring cellos, bagpipe drones and an essential artefact from the 1980s Hungarian underground, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with your latest Rum Music roundup
Music Downloads

tQ Subscriber Release: France

Your exclusive tQ subscriber download this week is a special one – a wild, excessive cut of hurdy-gurdy driven drone from one of our favourite bands, France
Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XLIV: World-Building-For-One AKA DIY Synth Music for Getting Off-Planet

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, exclusive to tQ subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through a selection of transportive releases from DIY synth voyagers of the near past
Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates a frustratingly patchy compilation that nevertheless is studded with some unusual gems
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Ahead of Counterflows festival, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to Tori Kudo to offer ten points of musical entry to his extensive back catalogue. Well, nine points of musical entry and one pair of ceramic shoes
Rum Music

Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, re-tuned fiddles that wallop and croon in equal measure, clattering 1980s Japanese post punk and more 
Black Sky Thinking

You Say ‘Taygo’, I Say ‘Tahgo’… Opening Can’s Pronunciation Can of Worms

Jennifer Lucy Allan lifts the lid on the complexity of countercultural pronunciation when just having a stab in the dark isn't an option
Rum Music

Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Guitars and more guitars and other, different guitars are staving off the January blues for Jennifer Lucy Allan, who returns with your latest trip to the world of Rum
Baker's Dozen

The Inner Circle: Jussi Lehtisalo’s Favourite Music

In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's Hans-Joachim Irmler
Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Robbie Basho’s Snow Beneath The Belly Of A White Swan

This 5CD set of rediscovered live recordings by Robbie Basho is a total wonder, says Jennifer Lucy Allan
Columns of the Year

Rum Music: The Best of 2024 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

As another year in the zone hurtles to a close, our Rum Music correspondent rounds up her favourite releases of 2024, from an ever-growing experimental hurdy-gurdy obsession to grimy Floridian synth-punk
Rum Music

Rum Music for November Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan returns from this month's trip around the Rum Music universe with a 7CD boxset of sonic enlightenment, live solo drum tapes from one of the year's greatest gigs, and more
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
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