Most of the time, if you look at the line-up of musicians taking to the stage together, you can get a rough idea of the sound they’re going to make. If it is guitar, bass and drums, it’s a pretty safe bet it will be some flavour of rock, if…
Like the seminal Swans album, this column contains an eclectic collection of experimental music recommendations, all of which provide sonic landscapes for the listener to lose themselves within. Expect offerings from the genres of ambient, drone, electroacoustic, free improvisation, post-minimalism and more. … There’s nothing quite like being surprised by…
I firmly stand by the belief that the avant-garde is a nexus, a point in space where no genre can actually exist, like an aural black hole. Everything that music stands for is gathered in this single point, so therefore it is every genre and none at the same time.…