Ivaylo Kolev is once again sitting across the table from me at Bare Jazz, in Oslo’s city centre. It’s the second meeting we’ve had here in as many months and although I’ve come to know the DJ very well since moving to the same city, there’s always some new story
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There was sense of anguish in the music that featured through out the Ultima festival, some unspoken bond between the different pieces I witnessed that tended to highlight unease over their subject matter, Nature. Thus far I’d witnessed the creepy extent of the “people in the corn belt” and the
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On my way to Ultima’s evening event on Tuesday I’m cursing the weather. I had taken a risky chance when the wet weather looked like it had dissipated, and was rewarded with a shower of that dwarfed Niagra falls. Raindrops, the size of golf balls splashed down, and up at
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Paul Ténèbre effortlessly perpetuates the mystique behind his artistic nom de plume. Ténèbre, which translates to “darkness” from French, is something of a nominative determinate for the oppressive and raw Techno that we’ve come to know over his short, yet efficient dance-music career. It features an artistic pre-occupation with the
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When Rob Clouth’s Clockwork Atom EP came out in April last year, I found myself with a bunch of questions I simply had to ask the producer. The sound of the EP was something completely alien to anything that’s come before it and showcased a unique talent that seemed to be
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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