Soundings - Issue 75 (Summer 2020): System Change
Institutional racism became part of public discourse in the UK in 1999, after the Macpherson report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence by the police some years..(read more)
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart / ISBN: 9781912064281
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Politics, UK.
Richard Youngs - Endless Futures
“Imagine Richard Youngs as the junior member of a cabal of prolific and puritanical English musician-mystics, including The Fall’s Mark E Smith, Van..(read more)
Label: Glass Records / REDUXLP015
Artist: Richard Youngs
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Rock, Free-folk, UK, Vinyl.
Guy Mankowski - Albion’s Secret History
Compiles snapshots of English pop culture’s rebels and outsiders, from Oscar Wilde to Tricky via PJ Harvey and Mark E. Smith. Those who have really shaped Alb..(read more)
Publisher: Zero Books / ISBN: 9781789040289
Author: Guy Mankowski
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Outsider Art, Pop, Pop Culture, UK.
Philip Johnson - Youth in Mourning
Philip Johnson, a lost figure in the dark waters of early industrial music in the UK, made over 25 tapes in the late ’70s. Ethereal soundscapes, damaged e..(read more)
Label: Superior Viaduct / 057LP
Artist: Philip Johnson
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: '80s, Industrial Music, Tape Experiments, UK, Vinyl.
Soundings - Issue 74 (Spring 2020): New Municipal Alternatives
After a crushing political defeat at the UK election, one resource of hope is municipalism. One of the most inspiring examples is Preston council.
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart / ISBN: 9781912064298
Author: Soundings
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Poetry, Politics, UK.
The Bellowing Earwigs - The Perpendicular Giraffe Compartment
Great studio session by some great characters of free improvisation! I think Jean-Michel van Schouwburg especially shines on this album, what an amazing vocalis..(read more)
Label: FMR / 581-0520
Artist: The Bellowing Earwigs
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Free Improvisation, Saxophone, UK, Vocal Art.
Lolina - Smoke
Aka Inga Copeland, all about songs that dissolve into bare-bones, stretched-out synth-and-vocal drafts bearing half-cooked traces of club tropes.
Label: Own
Artist: Lolina
Medium: 12"
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Grime, Songwriters, UK, Vinyl.
Mike Westbrook - Metropolis
English jazz pianist Mike Westbrook released this in 1971; a concept album recorded over three days in the famous Lansdowne studios.
Label: Music On Vinyl / MOVLP2206
Artist: Mike Westbrook
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Big Band, Modern Jazz, UK, Vinyl.
Benjamin Piekut - Henry Cow: The World is a Problem
British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Their open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spon..(read more)
Publisher: Duke University Press / ISBN: 9781478004660
Author: Benjamin Piekut
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: '70s, Avant-Garde, Avant-Rock, UK.
