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Out of my headphones comes a flow of odd, weirdly tactile sound: what could be an army of ants marching across a plain of contact mics, a landslide of scree recorded from a mile away, or perhaps the first field recording taken from Ingenuity, the tiny robotic helicopter currently flying sorties above the Martian landscape. Delicate clicks, burring friction and the waterfall-like spatiality of granular flow all galvanise my ears.
Itâs the sort of thing that may interest subscribers to The Wire magazine, or that an underground musician usually seen sweating over a badly soldered modular synth could make in a moment of calm. This is Lego White Noise, and while it definitely sounds like experimental music, the name makes it clear that this is the work of the worldâs most âreputable brandâ.
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‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
‘We took our politics way beyond feminism’ … Ruthie Smith, Caroline Gilfillan and Marion ‘Benni’ Lees McPherson. Photograph: Janet Smith
They turned down an offer to be Bob Marley’s backing singers to write songs about toxic masculinity and speculum exams. Thirty years after breaking up, they are releasing a debut album
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There weren’t many options for women in music in 1974. Only three women – Diana Ross, Karen Carpenter and Lena Zavaroni – made it into the Top 10 of the UK album chart all year, and Broadway singer Bette Midler had just won best new artist at the Grammys. Female rock stars were starting to gain traction – Suzi Quatro was rising up the charts and the Runaways were waiting in the wings – but it was still years before fem
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In 1971 John Russell left the remote Romney Marshes of Kent for London’s booming avant-arts scene as a 17-year-old blues and Frank Zappa fan, and was soon playing the guitar in such unrecognisable ways that even his contrarian Mothers of Invention hero might have raised an eyebrow.
Russell, who has died aged 66 of cancer, was the polar opposite of a guitar star - an obdurate original in the spiky mould of his influential teacher and mentor Derek Bailey, and in later years an energetic promoter of genre-evading free improvisation.
For almost five decades, he performed with prominent players from inside and outside jazz, including the saxophone virtuoso Evan Parker and the drummer John Stevens, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Steve Beresford, the lyrical jazz trumpeter Henry Lowther, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and jazz and contemporary music edge-cutters from across Europe’s improv scenes, as well as, in his later years, in J
More intense still, free jazz improviser and my good friend and old work-mate,
John Russell, has also recently left the building. He played alongside many of the greats of his somewhat esoteric world, including Derek Bailey, Thurston Moore, Lol Coxhill, Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Fred Frith and many more. A diamond geezer.
Mysterious Todmorden UFO cases of Alan Godfrey & Zigmund Adamski – with Collin Lyall & Andy Kershaw. A new video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th03A2QS98A&fbclid=IwAR1Vz0WE1h6CkyIRatEZhDgaGcl5DQ7 HKDR1pTeM8E9zBa5UMNMXBsSlkU
Internet sensations, the singing
Ex-footballer,
Lou Macari has established an eco-pod village for homeless folk inside a Scottish warehouse. Fabulous. https://www.facebook.com/bbc5live/videos/791598205035597/