John Edwards and Okkyung Lee – White Cable Black Wires

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John Edwards and Okkyung Lee – White Cable Black Wires

No Comments 19 February 2013

On White Cable Black Wires, life, instrumentation, emotion, music, communication and creativity are all tangled up in a dense knot.

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The Thing at Cafe Oto

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The Thing at Cafe Oto

1 Comment 12 February 2013

A powerful display which drew from a deep well of musical history, and refracted it, as if to say: this is it. This is what matters. This is The Thing.

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Arve Henriksen – Solidification

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Arve Henriksen – Solidification

2 Comments 23 January 2013

As if a new album by the esteemed Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen didn’t have enough heft, Rune Grammofon have created the weightiest of packages for it: a beautiful, and very heavy, seven LP box set.

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Touch 30 at Beaconsfield

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Touch 30 at Beaconsfield

No Comments 10 December 2012

This two day event to celebrate Touch's 30th anniversary featured panel discussions, films and performances from a number of artists and individuals linked to Touch, including Fennesz, Philip Jeck, Biosphere, Thomas Köner, and Hildur Gudnadottir.

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Freedom Of The City 2012

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Freedom Of The City 2012

No Comments 08 May 2012

Even in the shadow of death, the Freedom Of The City festival remains an improvisatory celebration of life, its numerous joys and its imperfections.

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Tetras – Pareidolia

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Tetras – Pareidolia

No Comments 20 March 2012

The latest double album from the Tetras trio dips a bucket deep into a stream which has flown through music since the mutant malevolent minimalism of Miles Davis's 1970s output.

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Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Oren Marshall, John Butcher and John Edwards at Cafe Oto

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Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Oren Marshall, John Butcher and John Edwards at Cafe Oto

No Comments 08 March 2012

I don't see many tubas in the wild these days, leading me to wonder if they've become some sort of endangered species. There were two, however, at this Cafe Oto show, where they were grappled with by Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Oren Marshall.

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Ideologic Organ at Cafe Oto: Elodie and Jessica Kenney/Eyvind Kang

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Ideologic Organ at Cafe Oto: Elodie and Jessica Kenney/Eyvind Kang

2 Comments 07 February 2012

As I watched the show fall onto the roof of a Dalston church from the queue outside Café Oto, I wondered whether Stephen O’Malley could have asked for a more perfect setting for the first of his Ideologic Organ events.

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PAN Festival at Cafe Oto

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PAN Festival at Cafe Oto

No Comments 01 February 2012

Two days of extreme contrasts in Cafe Oto at a showcase for the PAN label, featuring Eli Keszler, John Wiese, R/S, Valerio Tricoli, CC Hennix and Werner Durand

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Icarus – Fake Fish Distribution

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Icarus – Fake Fish Distribution

No Comments 30 January 2012

All 1,000 versions of Icarus's latest release are different. How do we even begin to approach such an unconventional piece of work?

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