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Jennifer Lucy Allan , April 6th, 2021 10:03 Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the New Zealand born composer about love letters on quarter-inch tape, piano gardens and doll shops, and the physical effects of sound upon our bodies Annea Lockwood portrait by Sam Green For Ruth and Conversations 74 plus A Film About Listening make up part of the bill for this year s Counterflows At Home digital festival which runs for all of April “Tell me everything…” “Yes, yes, yes… love!” This begins with a love story. New Zealand-born composer Annea Lockwood’s most recent composition ‘For Ruth’ is a reply to a love letter on tape her late partner Ruth Anderson made her in 1974, titled ‘Conversations ‘74’. In ‘For Ruth’, their affectionate conversational fragments, loving affirmations and the bubbling laughter of two people giddy for one another are embraced by field recordings of rich birdsong, grumbling frogs and passing cars, as well as res ....
G d s Pee at STATE s END! Mike Vinti , April 5th, 2021 09:46 As the world seems evermore grim, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are looking on the bright side of life (well, sort of…) finds Mike Vinti It feels trite to say that the last year has felt as if much of the world has been living inside a Godspeed You! Black Emperor album. Anyone familiar with the Montreal collective’s proclivity for anarchism-inspired transmissions of doom can draw parallels between the group’s prophecies of a society wrecked by neoliberal capitalism and the chaos that fills our Twitter timelines, governments and streets on a daily basis. After a year of lockdowns, civil rights protests and attempted coups, few people need Godspeed to tell us that the future is uncertain. ....
John Quin , April 3rd, 2021 09:26 John Quin admires Joan Didion’s late collection Let Me Tell You What I Mean Here’s Joan Didion on roving reporter mode at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in Gardenia, the draw-poker capital of Los Angeles County. A penitent says their ideal, the aim of the programme, is “getting serenity”. Didion balks at that: she associates serenity with death. Joan doesn’t do serenity: she’s been proven right in her anxieties for decades. It’s 2021 and entirely appropriate to be nervous now. Didion, perhaps more than any other contemporary American writer, grasps the sadness in the deluded idea of the good life and ....
Nicholas Burman , April 3rd, 2021 09:26 While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire Crumb’s World, 2021. Photo by Alex Casto. Courtesy of David Zwirner Books In 2016 Fantagraphics, who have republished much of Crumb’s work, released a book about its own history titled We Told You So: Comics as Art, and the appearance of Crumb’s work in the context of the art book market ( ....
Nancy Collinge , April 1st, 2021 08:20 The debut album by Dry Cleaning is as oblique and unsettling as Hans Holbein s skull, finds Nancy Collinge Photo by Steve Gullick A couple of months ago during a bout of lockdown malaise, I was in my mum’s living room eating pie and chips and peas in front of the telly. The Flog It credits rolled and shortly afterwards, an unremarkable looking middle-aged contestant on Pointless professed his undying love for a South London band called Dry Cleaning. “Bravo sir” my internal monologue drawled, “The reincarnated John Peel is among us… I hope they do a question on flags today.” ....