Hilde Marie Holsen records everything she plays on the trumpet – every practise session, every live performance, every time her lips touch the instrument, she hits the record button. Every day, her hard drive expands with the memories of their time together, like a photo album of hazy residual memoirs
Benjamin Finger creates intricate multi-dimensional worlds from the intimate crawl spaces of electronica and jazz in his latest work, Amorosa Sensitiva. By the time we reach Whirlpolbrainpoolin, the composer has unravelled a story that takes a dramatic turn as an improvised saxophone and double bass disrupt the bed of tranquillity
Derek Piotr’s music approaches the human voice with a curiosity that abstracts its literal connotations in the context of composition. He finds music in the most obscure processes of the voice, moulding it in the realm of the digital, to create evocative soundscapes that forge ahead in the experimental, absconding
The overwhelming nature of the Internet makes it incredibly difficult to keep my head above the waves of music that crash down around me everyday. Like television in the nineties, I keep flicking through the endless options, but rarely land on something I can stay with for even a moment.
Neida is the anthropomorphic essence of the sea imagined in the female form. Her wavy bosom expands with her luscious siren call, plucking at metallic chords that attempt to anchor the breathy synthesisers and sampled flotsam that drift over rickety percussive currents beneath them. Neida entrances her victim, luring the
The first time I met Ravi Brunsvik – coincidentally at the first 55 event – he laid down a challenge: “Can you write a review without using the letter ‘e’.” Quite an impossible task considering that in just two sentences I’ve used the letter eighteen times, but I keep it
When I hear Raul Vlădău’s voice breaking through the receiver, I can’t discern a note of fatigue. Not surprising considering it’s three in the afternoon on a Thursday, but quite unlikely in light of the fact that he’d just arrived home after a 500 km road trip through the heart
As I scramble on a Sunday to find a new piece of dance music to deliberate over, for the sake of content, I come up completely empty. Yes, there is new music out there, more so than ever, but there’s nothing that pop’s out at me, slaps me across the
The email I get from Claus Haxholm Jensen after our initial introduction is dotted with paraphrases, ideas trailing off into others, as I try to get to the bottom of his Assembler moniker and the concepts behind his latest album Quantum of Paths of Desire. The odd exclaimed “Ha” or
The recorded music industry is currently sitting at a very exciting crossroads. As streaming holds the key to music’s future distribution, nobody is quite sure how to estimate the value of music from this position. The options are endless and the roads all lead into uncharted territory. Not since the