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. Shine Caught Blue is the third solo album from Australian musician, drummer, sound/installation artist and curator Robbie Avenaim. Over the years he has moved from improvisation to extended techniques and into creating automated and robotic approaches to the kit. You can check out our review of his 2008 album Rhythmic Movement Disorder here. We [...]
. We’ve been enjoying the latest Tyondai Braxton album quite a lot ahead of its release on the 21st of August. Entitled Splayed Werks, Braxton utilises electronics, synths, samplers, guitar and piano to recontextualise rhythmic electronic music into something quite special. To be honest we’re still coming to grips with what’s going on, but this [...]
The evolution of Lagoss has been fascinating to watch. Beginning with 2020’s Imaginary Island Music Vol.1: Canary Islands, a series of short musical ideas, to what we see here, elongated fleshed out tunes. What began as exploration has morphed into a clear understanding of identity. Lagoss are Discrepant label boss Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Gonzo, Visions [...]
An in demand skilled DJ, with a reputation for thrilling 3-turntable vinyl sets, Felix Manuel AKA Djrum recently expanded his performance repertoire with his “Improvised Live” concept. Programmed into Berlin Atonal last year and recently featured at the Barbican London, the British artist performs bespoke instruments built on site from locally foraged materials. After my [...]
Ravish Momin is an established percussionist based in New York City. Working across jazz, improvisation and pop, he is rooted in Indian and Black music traditions. His project Sunken Cages showcases his style of layering live percussion with digital techniques of sampling, looping and signal processing, blurring distinctions between composition, improvisation and live performance. According [...]
US artist Jim Nollman exists somewhere between, art, music and acoustic ecology. He is a musician, sound artist, and author who has dedicated his practice to the pursuit of interspecies communication. He’s probably best known for his 1982 Folkways album Playing Music With Animals, which saw him improvising with turkeys, wolves, and Orcas. The results [...]
‘Is this too’ comes from a fascinating collaboration between Andrew Tuttle and Darren Cross. Whilst Tuttle is pretty familiar to Cyclic Defrost, you can check out his 2015 Cyclic Selects here, and our review of his 2016 album Fantasy League here. Cross meanwhile is a guitarist and songwriter probably best known as a founder of [...]
Unsound is a unique festival that has a weirdly broad appeal, which is odd considering how strange it is. Nestled in as part of Illuminate, a winter arts festival held in Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Unsound casts a wide net of seemingly disparate acts. This is my third voyage over the mountain range to experience Unsound, [...]
As UK outfit the Telescopes release their 19th album, Static Charge via Tapete Records, we give you a primer of their recent activities. Spare a thought for Stephen Lawrie and the Telescopes. While most of their Shoegaze brethren, the likes of Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Lush, Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Pixies, [...]
. Clay Teeth is the work of Sydney based artist Greg Stone, who you may know from some of his other bands like Haunts or Underlapper. You can check out an interview we did with Underlapper in 2007 here, and our review of the 2011 Underlapper LP Softly Harboured here. He’s also a periodic contributor [...]