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Baker's Dozen

Speaking Rhythms: Valentina Magaletti’s Baker’s Dozen

Prolific drummer and collaborator Valentina Magaletti marks the release of Tomaga's finest album by telling Jennifer Lucy Allan about her favourite 13 albums, from The Cure to Miles Davis, Art Blakey, and Can to Deerhoof, This Heat and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Photo by Adele di Nunzio
Rum Music

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan digs a big hole and flits around new releases that take in short locked grooves and extended multiphonic drones in this month’s letter from The Zone
A Quietus Interview

Feel The Buzz: An Interview With Mosquitoes

Jennifer Lucy Allan takes apart Clive Phillips, Peter Blundell, and Dominic Goodman’s trio to unpick how they’ve built their distinctive no wave by negation, and gathered a small and dedicated fanbase on the way
A Quietus Interview

Visions Of The Country: Alison Cotton Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan interviews the Sunderland-born viola player about where her music takes her, sharing a history with British Sea Power, and what pushed her to begin making solo music
Rum Music

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jaw-dropping group jazz from London, psychedelic harsh noise from Japan, and a whole lot of torn up blues, are just some of the things Jennifer Lucy Allan investigates in this month’s expedition to The Zone
Baker's Dozen

A Woman, A Man: John Parish’s Favourite PJ Harvey Recordings

As PJ Harvey continues a major series of vinyl reissues of her incredible discography, her long-time collaborator and friend John Parish guides Jennifer Lucy Allan through his favourite 13 of her recordings
Rum Music

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan enjoys extended versions of Don Cherry tracks, architectural ambience from Romania, French bagpipes, gnarly dancehall and Welsh dub this January
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Robbie Basho

Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys the work of the most misunderstood of the American primitive steel string guitar players
Rum Music

Rum Music: The Best Of 2020

Jennifer Lucy Allan reflects and gives thanks for a load of really good music and rounds up her favourite Rum Music releases for 2020
Baker's Dozen

Songs Of Praise: David Keenan’s Baker’s Dozen

Jennifer Lucy Allan hears about high-fiving Edgar Froese, frightening the neighbours, disavowing the devil and how Scottish author David Keenan is all about saying yes. Portrait by Heather Leigh.
Rum Music

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

This month's journey around The Zone takes in infinite basketball courts, Slovenian hilltops and morbid pastoralism
Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan contends with early computer improvisations, wordless cave singing in Java, and dynamic adventures in trombone in this month’s trip to The Zone
News

Oda To Joy: The Stereo System Bringing Terry Riley To Your Living Room

tQ is in partnership with Oda, a new speaker system that allows artists to broadcast directly into your home. With Laraaji, Madlib, Terry Riley, Mt Eerie, Arca and more already signed up for their first season, Jennifer Lucy Allan explores what this means in our current gigless crisis
Rum Music

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Naive brass, DIY future-cumbia, squelchy computer music and Harry Pussy rating Lou Reed's solo work alphabetically in Jennifer Lucy Allan's September transmission from the zone
Baker's Dozen

The Pleasure Of Discomfort: Siavash Amini’s Favourite Music

Siavash Amini discusses his 13 favourite albums with Jennifer Lucy Allan, including the power of romanticism, weeping over the death of Leonard Cohen, and why Nils Frahm has a lot to answer for. Photo by Selma Pour-Amin
Rum Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan hears strings to evoke fog, sleep and the resurrection of a 200-year-old instrument in this month's Rum Music
Rum Music

Rum Music For July Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan encounters free flowing Chilean psych, Sufi flamenco and lo-fi sound poetry during this month's trip into The Zone
Baker's Dozen

Lost Tapes: Heather Leigh’s Baker’s Dozen

Heather Leigh takes Jennifer Lucy Allan on a wild ride from teenage dancing on acid to Depeche Mode to collaborating with Peter Brotzmann via Britney Spears, Miles Davis, DJ Screw and The Dead C in this week's Baker's Dozen
Black Sky Thinking

Th’infernal Drone: In Praise Of The Hurdy-Gurdy

Jennifer Lucy Allan asks what's not to like about a singular medieval instrument whose sound most closely resembles a heavy metal drone group

Rum Music

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

The many prongs of free jazz are the focus of Jennifer Lucy Allan's trip around the Rum Music solar system this month, along with big synths, hot licks, and carbonated music
Rum Music

Rum Music For May, Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

This month Jennifer Lucy Allan opens her ears to new music for gamelan, old music on the Atari ST, and fresh Manc workouts
Rum Music

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Soothing bedroom synths, Donald Judd harmonies, accumulation loops and brass played under a German bridge all feed into this month's Rum Music reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Rum Music

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan considers new releases from Argentinian musique concrete composer Beatriz Ferreyra, some snap & tickle from Dale Cornish, and a collection from lesser-spotted Japanese cassette label birdFriend
Rum Music

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is back with polyglot adventures in the future overground, the current underground and the emotional edgelands, tracking Finnish blues, Fluxus crying spaces, neural networks and long string instruments
Rum Music

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan draws together sounds from the Kiev underground; forgotten synth explorations of a jazz legend and a must-watch of woodblocks and bells by Sarah Hennies in the first Rum Music of 2020
Rum Music

Rum Music: Jennifer Lucy Allan’s 2019 Favourites

Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys standouts from her inaugural year at the Rum Music controls, and looks forward to getting her hands dirty in 2020
Rum Music

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Tropical ambient, Enka-noise, minyo footwork and plenty of cross-genre collaboration feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan’s Rum Music round up for the winter months
A Quietus Interview

Creased Up: Jennifer Walshe interviewed

Ahead of her appearance at NEXT festival, artist, writer, composer and improvisor Jennifer Walshe talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about entropy, absurdity, and improvising with GRANNMA
Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan fills her plate with shrimp, brutalised stringed instruments and sounds from broken voices
A Quietus Interview

House Of Pain: Natalie Sharp’s Body Vice

Jennifer Lucy Allan is offered electrocution or suspension in an interview with Lone Taxidermist’s Natalie Sharp about MRI scanners, face painting, and chronic pain
Baker's Dozen

Dawn To Dusk: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Albums

Tales of the oddest record shop on Tyneside and much more as Richard Dawson guides Jennifer Lucy Allan through an unsurprisingly diverse selection of records in this week's Baker's Dozen
Rum Music

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

In a hot September for releases, Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out bagpipe drones, bubbling modular, and other vague music
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