Wednesday, 7 October 2026

#512

John Tilbury - At Home: Domestic & Archive Recordings (Another Timbre)
This compilation is not designed as a display of one man's technical prowess; rather, it celebrates an expansive and persistent spirit of collaborative creativity. — Julian Cowley

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

#511

Jeff Mills - The Trip to Vega (Axis)
The journey is anything but smooth and Mills avoids the kind of noodling melodic warmth that typifies ambient techno. — Mosi Reeves

Sunday, 20 September 2026

#510

Delphine Joussein & Kit Downes - Happy Hurricanes (Gigantonium)
The void answers back in abyssal bass tones, provoking rabid punk riffs and multiphonics. — Stewart Smith

Saturday, 5 September 2026

#509

Robert Morris - Carnatic String Quartet (New World)
For many years, South India's Carnatic music system has remained a profound source of fascination for him, and in this elegant work, written in 2020, he channels that interest through the medium of the Western string quartet. — Julian Cowley

Tuesday, 2 June 2026

#508

John Cage / Lowell Cross / Toshi Ichiyanagi / David Tudor - Appearance / Music for Solo Performer: Compositions by Toshi Ichiyanagi & Alvin Lucier (Omega Point / EM Records)
Those electronic interventions now sound distinctly of their time, although that technological rawness is arguably at the core of this music's appeal. — Julian Cowley

Monday, 25 May 2026

#507

Werner Durand & John Krausbauer - Black Seraphim (Moving Furniture)
The experience of listening is both a vibrantly physical sensation and an imaginary rite of passage towards some altered state, like being drawn through a tunnel hollowed out within an otherwise solid bed of sound. — Julian Cowley

Sunday, 26 April 2026

#506

Mark Vernon - Sounds of the Modern Hospital (Death is Not the End)
Vernon's dark revelation is that our hospitals are now hives of robots, from the automated vehicle muttering garbled commands as it shunts dirty linen to the frantic OPEX machine that sorts the ward's mail. — Rob Turner

Saturday, 28 February 2026

#505

Tyshawn Sorey - Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
[Sorey] adapts the instrumentation for Feldman's Rothko Chapel (viola, celesta, percussion and voices), adding a piano alongside the celesta and a bass-baritone solo. — Kurt Gottschalk