The interweaving stories of avant rock band Ir Visa Tai Kas Yra Gražu Yra Gražu, jazz improvisors Haruspic and radical film maker Artūras Barysas provide a window into Lithuania’s underground from the Soviet era to the present day. Lead image: Juozas Milašius, Artūras Barysas in… Read More
Working from exile in Poland, the Belarusian musician, poet and broadcaster keeps his home country’s avant garde flame alive. Photo by Jury Siemianuk. Pramzona #7, the latest release in Viktar Siamaška’s arsenal of archival recordings, opens with a percussive conversation between found objects. The low… Read More
Ilia Rogatchevski speaks to the child star turned artist, musician and composer about his excellent new album Instability Of The Signal and his many collaborations with Derek Jarman. Portraits by Marta Ruly On a torrid June morning, I’m invited to speak with Simon Fisher Turner… Read More
Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat, finds Ilia Rogatchevski Mary Ocher reclines on a rubber dinghy that is perilously adrift at sea. Her voice lifts above the waters as a shuffling backbeat dominates the track.… Read More
The Kenyan born producer and artist finds a sense of place via field recordings, music and installations, giving voice to ethnographic sounds and archived objects By Ilia Rogatchevski Photography by Laura Schaeffer Listening to Disconnect, KMRU’s collaborative album with Kevin Martin, fills your gut with… Read More
Image: ‘Darkside of the Cone‘ screened at IKLECTIK by Jason Brooks As YouTube wormholes go, A Moon Age Daydream is possibly one of the more refined playlists on the platform. Curated by London artist and researcher Jason Brooks, the list charts the cultural connections between… Read More
Ahead of a full performance of her new album The Hollow at London ICA, actor and artist Keeley Forsyth talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about Pina Bausch, Béla Tarr, genderless vocals, and perceiving the world as light and shade Keeley Forsyth’s third album The Hollow explores the essence of solitude… Read More
Eventim Apollo, London, UK Image: Still from Shiver, dir. Martin Falck The key protagonist of Fever Ray’s third album Radical Romantics is Main, a meek white collar drone who, by submitting to the objects of their desire, casts off their awkward shell and embraces love… Read More
Ahead of the release of her soundtrack for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s new film Evil Does Not Exist, Japanese musician Eiko Ishibashi talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about influential composer director partnerships and her own approaches to scoring film. Photo: Eiko Ishibashi in Hokuto, Japan, October 2018, The Wire… Read More
Cassie Kinoshi with seed. + NikNak + London Contemporary Orchestra Barbican, London, UK | Photo by The Red Beanie. The Barbican’s stage is crowded. Cassie Kinoshi, the alto saxophonist, composer and former member of Kokoroko, leads the ten piece seed. ensemble for the presentation of… Read More
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