Issue 118 – Page 2 – Electronic Sound

5 minute read

Faithful Johannes: Yours Faithfully

byBob Fischer

Faithful Johannes? The Alan Bennett of hip hop. Sir John Betjemen with beats. And weighing on his mind at the moment are life-threatening lawns, river monsters called Tony and the “icky” thoughts that have inspired an album riddled with very English anxieties

TThe School of Electronic Music

2 minute read

Scritti Politti

byJack Dangers

Jack Dangers picks apart the world of difficult and expensive academic electronic music from the dawn of synth, and settles on Scritti Politti

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Rafael Anton Irisarri: Behind The Mask

byMat Smith

Rafael Anton Irisarri’s mournful and majestic new work – all complex ambient and drone heft – heaves with “simmering electric despondency”

TTime Machine

4 minute read

Tangerine Dream ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’

byDavid Elliott

Tangerine Dream had a big year in 1974 with the release of ‘Phaedra’ and their first UK tour. But let’s not forget their score for the Greek tragedy ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’ in Chichester

LLong Reads

8 minute read

The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future

byDavid Stubbs

With a sonic reinvigoration, former 4AD outfit The Wolfgang Press are making a surprise comeback with their first album in almost 30 years – a brooding and typically multidimensional return to form

UUnder The Influence

4 minute read

Leonore Wheatley

byJeremy Allen

Leonore Wheatley, singer with The Soundcarriers, Co-Pilot and International Teachers Of Pop, shares the key influences and inspirations that shaped her

LLong Reads

4 minute read

Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract

byDerek Walmsley

Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia and experimental percussionist Valentina Magaletti have teamed up for ‘Estradas’, a melodic and pulsating tour de force of eclectic rhythms and essential beats

PPulse

2 minute read

Brokenchord

byIsaak Lewis-Smith

Trippy Lithuanian underground sounds

LLong Reads

19 minute read

White Noise: Lightning Strikes

byDavid Stubbs

Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record

PPulse

2 minute read

Camera Picture

byBeau Waddell

Black Midi man delves into ambience