Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn To The World's Most …
Sep 18, 2024 · Many screenings are happening this month, one staged in a nuclear bunker, another followed by a walking tour of Cold War locations, several featuring specially pre-recorded Q&As.A sold-out screening at the Sheffield Film Festival this summer even featured a Q&A with its most famous extra: Michael Beecroft, a traffic warden who moonlighted as an extra on local productions, and spent just one ...
Blood Red Dues: King Crimson’s Red Turns 50 - thequietus.com
Oct 1, 2024 · Where In The Court Of The Crimson King had been met with fanfare and a palpable sense that popular music had been changed as a result of its existence, Red’s release was a non-event.The album, recorded by the slimmed down trio of Fripp, bassist and singer John Wetton and former Yes drummer Bill Bruford, did receive broadly favourable reviews, with critics comparing it to John McLaughlin’s ...
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature | The Quietus
Nov 27, 2024 · There’s a gorgeously tender reading of the ballad ‘We’ll Be Together Again’ along with a relatively concise account of Henderson’s ‘Isotope’, but the biggest thrills come in the extended pieces, such as the spontaneous minor blues later titled ‘Taking Off’, where the musicians tap into the pure expression and improvisational exchange of that era rarely captured in …
25 Years On: Mos Def and the Promise of Black On Both Sides
Oct 14, 2024 · This scene of avant poets and footloose beat-conductors grew out of street corner cyphers and Boho coffee bars, flourished on self-released 12-inches and finally broke out into the world at large thanks, in no small part, to James Murdoch (son of Rupert and arguable inspiration for Kendall Roy) and his Rawkus Records.
Tyler, The Creator – Chromakopia | The Quietus
Nov 1, 2024 · From the moment the first notes echo, Chromakopia reveals itself as a meticulously crafted auditory journey, laden with raw emotion, and seamless yet unpredictable transitions that pass by almost unnoticed. The opening line, spoken by Tyler’s mother, Bonita Smith, sets the album’s tone: “You are the light / It’s not on you, it’s in you / …
Lewis Spybey – LEWISPYBEY | The Quietus
Nov 28, 2024 · LEWISPYBEY is a voluptuous and busy-sounding record throughout, full of the slightly manic music you often get from those who have been in the music business too long to care about what others think.That allows for some curveball moments of beauty answerable only to themselves. Second track ‘Boot Island Twin’ is a shimmering number, more meditative than the opener but still possessing an ...
Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
Deep Deep Down: J Spaceman & John Coxon's Music for William …
Oct 17, 2024 · Stranded In Canton is Eggleston’s 1974 documentary of the Deep South and its inhabitants, most of whom are his friends, co-conspirators, family or fellow debauchees. It’s full of the kind of freaks and misfits – ‘characters’ we might call them – …
"Embrace It Or Fuck Off" - Robert Plant Interviewed - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2014 · Partly inspired by his break up with singer Patti Griffin and his increasing isolation in Texas, the album is a superb melting pot of influences that takes in West Coast psychedelia, North African music, loops, electronics, folk and country without it ever sounding like a cut and paste Frankenstein monster.
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Black Sky Thinking Radio / Live Transmission: Autechre As Concert Musicians. Ahead of an appearance at Skaņu Mežs festival in Latvia, Derek Walmsley assesses to what extent Ae are unique in the world of electronic music given their live shows represent a space of spontaneous creation while the release of live albums and radio sessions have started to feel as essential as their studio output ...