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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
Rum Music

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Muscular guitars, bakery based sound poetry and percussive patterns from Indonesia feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan's first roundup of the new year
Rum Music

Rum Music: The Best Out Music Of 2021

Jennifer Lucy Allan looks back at a stop start year and rounds up a grab bag of feral favourites from The Zone
Rum Music

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Senyawa say no to streaming services and the unGoogleable Heavy Metal finally drop their fifth album, as Jennifer Lucy Allan sends her latest report back from The Zone
A Quietus Interview

Heavy Plant Crossing: Circle & Richard Dawson Interviewed

One of our favourite hypno rock groups and one of our favourite musicians have collaborated to produce one of the albums of the year, Henki. Jennifer Lucy Allan met them to get the full story
A Quietus Interview

Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks exclusively with the Les Rallizes Dénudés bass player about the death of enigmatic frontman Takashi Mizutani, and what this means for the band's legacy. With special thanks to Uncle Music
Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Junglism sieved through the ionosphere and bodies of water, and Japanese rock bootleg anguish are just two of the things covered in this month's roundup of The Zone courtesy of Jennifer Lucy Allan
Strange World Of...

The Strange World of… Derek Bailey

Jennifer Lucy Allan traces a personal route through free improvisation's roots with one of Sheffield's finest exports
Rum Music

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Insect percussions, haunted workouts, hungry shells and phasing saxophones in this month's bumper back-to-school edition surveying sound and music's outer limits and inner spaces.

A Quietus Interview

Puffer, Tapper, Blower: MrUnderwood’s Acoustic Modular Synth

The instrument maker and sound artist Sam Underwood talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about his latest mechanical adventure – a modular synth that swaps filters for miniature bellows and oscillators for rotating platters
Baker's Dozen

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA
A Quietus Interview

Mourn The World: An Interview With Maria W Horn

Ahead of Rewire festival Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the Swedish artist, musician and composer about prison hauntings, being thrown out of bible study, collectivity in music making and the power of the drone to alter perceptions of time and place
Rum Music

Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Hi-fidelity plunderphonics from Vietnam, synths with no wrong speed from Rotterdam, and the cosmic undulations of narrative vaporwave in Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music excursion for July
A Quietus Interview

Ear-Walking Woman: Natalia Beylis Interviewed

The Ireland-based experimental musician talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about trees, pianos, Edward Gorey's alphabet and the difficulty in pressing the sound of crisp packets to vinyl
Baker's Dozen

Never Mind The Bootlegs: Aaron Dilloway’s Favourite Music

Aaron Dilloway picks thirteen 7"s, LPs, bootleg VHS and cassettes for his Baker’s Dozen, which veers from field recordings of bigfoot to experimental classical music from the early 20th century
Rum Music

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

TQ's Rum Music correspondent Jennifer Lucy Allan reacquaints herself with the club and recounts her month of listening, from Rusyn folk songs to syrupy productions from São Paulo and fireworks made rhythmic
Baker's Dozen

By The Numbers: Loraine James’ Favourite Music

Loraine James tells Jennifer Lucy Allan about her favourite albums, digging into math rock and Mid west emo, as well as slept-on electronica
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Don Cherry

From pocket trumpet to donso ngoni, sharp suits and jazz clubs to communal utopias, Jennifer Lucy Allan immerses herself in the world of the American trumpet player and composer
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