Ahead of a set at this year’s OUT.FEST and off the back of superb new LP Ficar Vivo, Caveira's Pedro Gomes speaks to Stewart Smith about Lisbon’s storied experimental underground, the importance of dramatic dynamics on record, and the art of improvisation
Ahead of a set at this year’s OUT.FEST and off the back of superb new LP Ficar Vivo, Caveira's Pedro Gomes speaks to Stewart Smith about Lisbon’s storied experimental underground, the importance of dramatic dynamics on record, and the art of improvisation
Ahead of a show as part of EFG London Jazz Festival this month, saxophonist, composer and improviser James Brandon Lewis speaks to Stewart Smith about honouring the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, his unique compositional system Molecular Systematic Music and more
Ahead of a show as part of EFG London Jazz Festival this month, saxophonist, composer and improviser James Brandon Lewis speaks to Stewart Smith about honouring the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, his unique compositional system Molecular Systematic Music and more
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith introduces us to the wildly diverse world of Scottish free jazz and improv, from a 70s Peel Session to the present day via Bill Wells (pictured above) and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith introduces us to the wildly diverse world of Scottish free jazz and improv, from a 70s Peel Session to the present day via Bill Wells (pictured above) and the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
In an epic Baker’s Dozen, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lets Stewart Smith into the secrets of his Candyman soundtrack, and celebrates Black excellence from Don Cherry to Moor Mother, Olly W. Wilson to Pamela Z
In an epic Baker’s Dozen, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lets Stewart Smith into the secrets of his Candyman soundtrack, and celebrates Black excellence from Don Cherry to Moor Mother, Olly W. Wilson to Pamela Z
"In a way I feel like a billionaire" says US composer and improvisor Anthony Braxton to Stewart Smith, in a wide-ranging and deep interview that touches on several new projects and his connections with an international vibrational family
"In a way I feel like a billionaire" says US composer and improvisor Anthony Braxton to Stewart Smith, in a wide-ranging and deep interview that touches on several new projects and his connections with an international vibrational family
Ahead of a show this Saturday at London's Southbank Centre, Catherine Anne Davies takes us through the 13 albums that have defined her life and work as The Anchoress, from childhood memories soundtracked by The Carpenters and lifechanging encounters with the Manics and PJ Harvey as a teen, to newfound infatuations with SZA and The 1975,
With the UK leg of their European tour drawing to a close with sets in Bristol tonight and on the Quietus' Desertfest stage tomorrow, Lee Buford of the none-bleaker American sludge duo picks out 13 all-time top records and pens us his own Baker's Dozen