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Christian Eede , March 16th, 2021 14:09 Stephen O Malley, Nik Void and more will present live sets as part of the inaugural COMMON Multiverse Initiative A number of artists on Editions Mego s roster will play live sets this weekend for a brand new online festival called COMMON Multiverse Initiative. The event, which kicked off on Saturday (March 13), is the brainchild of online community space and playlisting platform, Currents.fm. Each day, different collectives and labels – including female:pressure, Infinite Machine and Fever AM – are curating the online event s programme. This Sunday (March 21), the curation falls to Editions Mego, with the likes of Nik Void, KMRU, The Transcendence Orchestra and Julia Reidy all set to play live. Avaeken , a piece by Stephen O Malley, will also be performed by Zwerm Ensemble, while Powell will join up with his a ƒolder collaborators Marte Eknæs and Michael Amstad for a live performance. ....
Drums come to the fore in this debut album from Congolese-American artist Kiazi Malonga In the Bantu languages spoken throughout Central, Eastern and Southern Africa, ‘ngoma’ represents an important part of musical and social culture. The literal translation is usually given as ‘drum’, but it more accurately refers to a unified concept of drum-dance-song-music. You can beat the ngoma, or sing it, or dance it, and in doing so, create ngoma. Ngoma is at once playing, moving and listening – it is by nature reciprocal and collaborative. Tembo kia Ngoma explores the drum and its wider meanings in sound in an impressive and considered debut from Congolese-American artist Kiazi Malonga. ....
David McKenna , March 16th, 2021 09:08 David McKenna celebrates ten years of the Rockfort column and tackles folk, rap, the dark arts - and classic French Europop This column marks the ten-year anniversary of Rockfort on The Quietus, a realisation which is a source of delight and no little consternation (for me, but perhaps for others too). It’s the sort of moment that leads to pained reflections on where the time has gone, and what I’ve achieved. Then I remember that over the same period Daft Punk only managed to release one paltry album before splitting up and I feel much better! ....