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Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation
Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation
All four members of cult stoner quartet The Heads talk to Tristan Bath about their "sloppy magnum opus" Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (currently riding high in tQ's reissues of the year chart) and how releasing a record is like taking a big shit
All four members of cult stoner quartet The Heads talk to Tristan Bath about their "sloppy magnum opus" Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (currently riding high in tQ's reissues of the year chart) and how releasing a record is like taking a big shit
With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention
With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects
With the Japanese trio embarking on a UK tour this week, Tristan Bath speaks with Nisennenmondai in a rare interview to discuss their mesmerising voyages into the interzone between noise, rock and dance music. Along the way he discovers that their commitment to minimalism stretches beyond their intensely stripped-back tracks...
With the Japanese trio embarking on a UK tour this week, Tristan Bath speaks with Nisennenmondai in a rare interview to discuss their mesmerising voyages into the interzone between noise, rock and dance music. Along the way he discovers that their commitment to minimalism stretches beyond their intensely stripped-back tracks...
With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback
With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback