Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Classical
Album Review
The Eye of Time / The Eye of Time
“We are corpses; walking dead...we are ghosts in the supermarkets of life.” The accompanying notes for 'The Eye of Time' refer directly to the anger, shame, resignation and hopelessness that drives individual tracks; a recurring...
Album Review
Peter Broderick / Music for Confluence
It's nice when your friends instictively know what music you'd like. This is one of those times and I'm feeling happy to listen. I've been dormant for a while, off the radar so to speak; but thankfully my reliable minions have been...
Gig
It’s a chilly night in Glasgow outside as you breathe in it’s the kind of cold that stings your nose and even has the potential to make you a bit lightheaded. Fortunately downstairs in the venue it’s....bloody freezing as well. The...
Album Review
Nils Frahm / Felt
As the summer months draw to a close and the autumnal hue cascades across the trees with a fiery glow, the days get shorter and the nights get colder. Tonight is pretty much the same as any other night as I put on my wellies and my eight stone dog...
Album Review
Kashiwa Daisuke / 88
I've just submitted my interview with World's End Girlfriend, so it seems fitting that I continue the theme in reviewing another modernclassicalelectronicawithpost-rockinfluenceblahblah Japanese musician. But the fact that Kashiwa Daisuke...
Album Review
Dustin O'Halloran / Lumiere
A lot of people who I know don’t really understand the music that I listen to. Many of them think because I have a beard and I’m covered in tattoos that I’m a goth!? Strange, I know. It’s not their fault; they just...
Gig
The last time I went into Sound Control in Manchester I spent an obscene amount of money on an Ibanez Signature Mike Mushok Baritone Guitar and a pedal board consisting of several Boss pedals, I walked away with a huge grin on my face and very...
Album Review
World's End Girlfriend / Seven Idiots
Need an antidote to neatly-packaged beigeness? Over a marathon 80 minutes, World's End Girlfriend aka Katsuhiko Maeda propels us through a joyously unhinged sonic adventure which counterposes symphonic passages and dizzying eclectic modern...
Interview
When you find out about an artist from Iceland, it's usually the case that even before you've set ears on them, you somehow know that they're going to be forward thinking, somewhat leftfield, and most importantly, aurally pleasing. Be...
Gig
Peter Broderick performed at Reading arts centre with Johann G. Winther and local folk/minimalists The Pawnbroker. The latter were up first. Playing a sombre soundtrack to the eye-rolls and ‘tuts’ aimed our way. Perfectly just,...
