Mark Roland – Page 12 – Electronic Sound

14 minute read

John Foxx And The Maths: Cosine Of The Times

byMark Roland

‘Howl’, the album from John Foxx And The Maths, seems spookily prophetic given these strange and unsettling times. We talk to Foxx and his Mathematicians – Benge, Hannah Peel and former Ultravox axeman Robin Simon – about heavy electronics, contorted guitars, violent violins, and howling into the void

RReviews

3 minute read

Roger Eno And Brian Eno ‘Mixing Colours’ (Deutsche Grammophon)

byMark Roland

Gold Blend

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Nicolás Jaar: Shock Of The New

byMark Roland

Going down to the woods and big surprises is music to the ears of producer and sonic artist Nicolás Jaar. His audio-visual residency in the Shock Forest went down a bomb, so to speak

PPulse

1 minute read

Broads

byMark Roland

Visit Norfolk electronic/piano sales pitch

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

The Divine Comedy

byMark Roland

The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon discusses some of the influences that have shaped him and his spiffing and surprisingly synth-heavy album ‘Office Politics’

LLong Reads

12 minute read

White Noise

byMark Roland

David Vorhaus remembers how a Summer Of Love encounter with Delia Derbyshire led to their foray into the counter culture with the White Noise album ‘An Electric Storm’

PPulse

1 minute read

Harry Edwards

byMark Roland

Contemporary abstract experimentalism

PPulse

2 minute read

Experimental Sonic Machines

byMark Roland

Mask-wearing noise machine primitivist

LLandmarks

4 minute read

808 State ‘Pacific State’

byMark Roland

Graham Massey on the making of 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’, the record that both defined and reflected the blithe spirit of the summer of 1989 better than any other

LLong Reads

8 minute read

EMS: The Composer

byMark Roland

Tristram Cary, avant-garde exponent of all things EMS