There’s a striking image i vividly recall from when i first watched David Attenborough’s The Private Life of Plants. It featured time-lapse photography, focusing on a small, seemingly insignificant tendril lying on the ground. Through this simple act of televisual time dilation, we were able to cross the relativistic divide …
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experimental
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It’s a sign of the trust that i have in Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir‘s music that, when she sent me her new album Skinweeper a few months back, i dropped everything and just pressed play. No prep, no note-reading, i didn’t even look at the track titles; i just wanted to listen, …
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There’s usually a fairly clear correlation for me between the duration of an album and the amount of listening required before i feel i’ve begun to make sense of it. Not quite so simple as ‘short albums = shorter time, long albums = longer’, though that’s perhaps basically true. But …
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It’s been a curious experience attending the Borealis festival in Bergen in recent years. i first went in 2019, and have been on a handful of occasions since, each time recalibrating my understanding of, and relationship with, everything that Borealis has tried to do and be. This year’s was of …
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Liminal times be liminal. If there’s one thing that typifies the period i’m focusing on in this Lent Series, 1977–81, it’s the extent to which, with the proliferation of electronics, more than usually strange and wonderful things suddenly seemed to be possible. As i’ve explored previously, this led to some …
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For the next album in the Lent Series – and this won’t be the only time – the chronology becomes more fluid. Cabaret Voltaire, comprising Richard Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, formed in Sheffield in 1973, but it would be five more years before their music would start to …
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