Element ‘Sourblaster’ (Creeping Bent, 2000)
Few music discovery anecdotes start with “I was rugby tackled by a man in a cinema because he liked my T-shirt”, but discovering Lancashire oddballs Element starts like that for me.
Alice Hubble: New Horizons
With a deep interest in the weird and wonderful world around us, London synth obsessive Alice Hubble really hits the spot with her debut album, ‘Polarlichter’
Haiku Salut: General Knowledge
Creating a live soundtrack to a silent Buster Keaton classic has been quite the learning curve for Derbyshire’s Haiku Salut, who are also adapting to life as a duo, for a little while at least…
Laurence Pike
Convention-busting tech-jazz improv
4,000,000 Telephones ‘4,000,000 Telephones’ (Bunker, 1985)
“You have to play this album,” says Vincent, a fellow record dealer in Lincoln where my secondhand vinyl store lives.
Sunbane
Post-rave apocalypse outta Cardiff
Terry Riley
In November 1964, a group of musicians, many who would go on to become key in the avant-Garde movement, took to a stage in San Francisco to perform a work that would change music FOREVER. We delve into the legacy of Terry Riley’s masterpiece, ‘In C’
Sarah Davachi
Canadian highbrow ambience
‘Fly Rocket Fly’
Deep in the African jungle In the 1970s, A group of german engineers created the world’s first private space company. We look behind the scenes of ‘Fly Rocket Fly’, a new documentary that tells the bizarre tale of orbital transport und Raketen Aktiengesellschaft
Raymond Scott ‘Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1’ (Epic, 1964)
The artists that live on the fringes, the forward (or sideways) thinkers, have always drawn me in. This fascination really kicked in at university when, in the early 2000s, I presented a radio show with Erotic Volvo of Birmingham wrong-pop band Misty’s Big Adventure. As a kind of musicologist of the weird, his selections were never predictable and often a revelation.