Riding the crest of the wave
SUSANNE SUNDFØR
Revelations Of Divine Love
The Norwegian artist embarks on an original collaboration with a female anchoress who lived in the Middle Ages
CLAIRE ROUSAY - MARTYNA BASTA
Hotel Room
Field recordings, voices and electronics for a successful collaboration between two talented artists
FABRIZIO TESTA
Night Diary
The Romagna Riviera becomes a metaphysical landscape on the new solo album from Il lungo addio's frontman
SARAH DAVACHI
The Will Of Tongues
A monumental work, the natural culmination of a rigorous search
GLENN BRANCA
Symphony No. 4 (Physics)
An important archaeological document resurfaces, between minimalism, no wave and experimental rock
interview
Kenneth Newby - Revealing the Inner Life of Sounds
From improvising with Trance Mission and Lights In A Fat City alongside didgeridoo player Stephen Kent, to bold solo experiments capable of transcending fourth-world music and reaching the heart of the finest Serious Music. We meet the Canadian artist, a leading philosopher of fourth-world music and extraordinary Serious composer, in a world where Contemporary Music seems to have all but vanished
monograph
Youssou N'Dour - The Man Who Brought the World to Dakar
He codified local dances into mbalax, a new genre that rewrote the history of African music and conquered the global pop scene, drawing in artists like Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Paul Simon. The story of the man who has been dubbed "the King of African Pop"
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Mere Mortals
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BRYCE DESSNER
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story Soundtrack
The National's guitarist pens the soundtrack for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story”, steering clear of horror clichés
STEPHEN O'MALLEY
Avaeken
An alienating sonic body that annihilates itself to represent in space the physical experience of loss
CARMEN VILLAIN
Memoria
The umpteenth transformation of the Mexican-Norwegian artist, an elusive trance capable of channeling the power of memory
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, ALVA NOTO
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Carsten Nicolai's urge to commemorate revives a lost collaboration three years after the passing of his friend
XIU XIU
Eraserhead Xiu Xiu
A layered, vibrant and disturbing sonic body on the new album from the group led by Jamie Stewart
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