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Inner Ear: Polish Music For January Reviewed By Jakub Knera
Jakub Knera looks at contemporary electronic sounds, alternative rock and improvised music from Poland in this new column focusing on central and eastern Europe, including the weird electronica of Piotr Kurek and Wojciech Rusin, the new guitar perspectives of Kurws and Trupa Trupa and analyses how the pandemic inspired Resina and Martyna Basta’s latest albums
The Quietus International
Inner Ear: Polish Music For January Reviewed By Jakub Knera
Jakub Knera looks at contemporary electronic sounds, alternative rock and improvised music from Poland in this new column focusing on central and eastern Europe, including the weird electronica of Piotr Kurek and Wojciech Rusin, the new guitar perspectives of Kurws and Trupa Trupa and analyses how the pandemic inspired Resina and Martyna Basta’s latest albums
A Quietus Interview
Peer Reviewed: Dave Okumu Interviews Joan As Police Woman… And Vice Versa
Following the release of their collaborative album with the late Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu take part in an exclusive two-way interview that covers the former's love of New York, the latter's impeccable sense of style, obsessions from Grace Jones to Julian Barratt, artistic process, dream collaborations and much, much more...
A Quietus Interview
Peer Reviewed: Dave Okumu Interviews Joan As Police Woman… And Vice Versa
Following the release of their collaborative album with the late Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu take part in an exclusive two-way interview that covers the former's love of New York, the latter's impeccable sense of style, obsessions from Grace Jones to Julian Barratt, artistic process, dream collaborations and much, much more...
Baker's Dozen
Soundtrack To The Interzone: Justin Robertson’s Baker’s Dozen
In a self-penned Baker's Dozen, DJ and producer Justin Robertson recalls the thirteen pieces of music that soundtracked his rise from home counties obscurity to the outer edges of dance music, via run-ins with Jimmy Page and Mark E. Smith
Baker's Dozen
Soundtrack To The Interzone: Justin Robertson’s Baker’s Dozen
In a self-penned Baker's Dozen, DJ and producer Justin Robertson recalls the thirteen pieces of music that soundtracked his rise from home counties obscurity to the outer edges of dance music, via run-ins with Jimmy Page and Mark E. Smith
A Quietus Interview
Sonic Spaces: An Interview With Midori Takada
The once-obscure Japanese minimalist, whose 1983 album 'Through The Looking Glass' has now become one of the most celebrated ambient releases from the country, talks with Patrick St. Michel about her interest in African music, ahead of her appearance at Le Guess Who? festival
A Quietus Interview
Sonic Spaces: An Interview With Midori Takada
The once-obscure Japanese minimalist, whose 1983 album 'Through The Looking Glass' has now become one of the most celebrated ambient releases from the country, talks with Patrick St. Michel about her interest in African music, ahead of her appearance at Le Guess Who? festival
Books
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It: Katie Goh’s Apocalyptic Obsessions
As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?
Books
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It: Katie Goh’s Apocalyptic Obsessions
As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?
Books
The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis
In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory
Books
The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis
In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory
Books
Everyone’s Invited: Author Amber Medland On Toxic Masculinity
Amber Medland's new book Wild Pets is "an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction" (*The Guardian*). In this exclusive essay for the Quietus, she talks about campus rape culture and teaching masculinity in the classroom
Books
Everyone’s Invited: Author Amber Medland On Toxic Masculinity
Amber Medland's new book Wild Pets is "an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction" (*The Guardian*). In this exclusive essay for the Quietus, she talks about campus rape culture and teaching masculinity in the classroom
Art
Blow Up: Art As Inflatable
With their new show Hot Air opening this weekend at Manor Place Warehouse in South London, curator Anna Choutova plus artists from the show – including Bruce Asbestos, Kalman Pool, Lucy Gregory, and Sasha Frovola – discuss the pleasures and peculiarities of inflatable art works
Art
Blow Up: Art As Inflatable
With their new show Hot Air opening this weekend at Manor Place Warehouse in South London, curator Anna Choutova plus artists from the show – including Bruce Asbestos, Kalman Pool, Lucy Gregory, and Sasha Frovola – discuss the pleasures and peculiarities of inflatable art works
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Baker's Dozen
Unearthly Delights: Eric Chenaux’s Favourite Albums
Ahead of a new trio album and a show at this year's Acid Horse, Eric Chenaux takes Barnaby Smith through the thirteen albums that changed him, from the avant-garde to hip hop, traditional folksong to vintage Brazilian psychedelia and more
