The June 16 event will feature sets from four artists on the 2024/25 roster of SHAPE+ artists

SHAPE+, the European Union-funded platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, is putting an event on at London’s Cafe OTO next month.

Scheduled for June 16, the event will take in sets from four acts who appeared on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ roster of artists: Brussels-based Aulos player Lukas De Clerck; Paris-based sound artist and composer Eve Aboulkheir; Latvian interdisciplinary artist Paula Vītola; and ambient music producer and Paralaxe Editions label founder Dania, who hails from Iraq and is based in Spain.

Two further SHAPE+ showcases for outside of the European Union are due to be announced soon.

Find more information on the Cafe OTO event here.
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Out in September, it features contributions from David Sylvian

Photo by Louie Perea

Lucrecia Dalt has shared details of a new album, titled A Danger To Ourselves.

Spanning 13 tracks, the follow-up to 2022’s ¡Ay! features David Sylvian appearing as a guest co-producer and guitarist on select tracks, while there are also vocal contributions across the record from Juana Molina, Camille Mandoki and Eliana Joy.

The new record, a press release said, strips away “fictional narratives” present on Dalt’s past albums, focusing instead on “emotional sincerity”.

The artist has shared lead track ‘divina’ alongside the album’s announcement, and you can watch a video for the song below. The visual stars Dalt and multidisciplinary artist Lucia Maher-Tatar, and is directed by filmmaker Tony Lowe.

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International and local artists including Lyra Pramuk and Arca meet in June

The Athens-based Epidaurus Festival has unveiled a programme of events under the Subset banner, scheduled to take place at venues across the city this June. With immersive soundsystems installed in venues from the Ioannis Despotopoulos Amphitheatre to the Athens Conservatoire, the line-up will include Lyra Pramuk playing her forthcoming album Hymnal, as well as sets from Ryoji Ikeda, Christina Vantzou, Mouse On Mars, and many more.  Arca and Greek PAN artist Evita Manji will open Subset via sets at the open-air Lycabettus Theatre on 31 May. 

Speaking about the festival, curator Stavros Gasparatos said “When I first proposed Subset, my goal was to create a space that could support and connect…

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Retching punk, ecstatic pummelling, rhythms made from paper and VCRs, time-bending loops and a wonderfully off-piste post punk reissue, Daryl Worthington peaks into May’s cassette releases

Ayarwhaska, photo by Benzeno

Forming Haze collects recordings made between 1985 and 1986 by The Crippled Flower, a band from Dusseldorf who existed for just a few years. The six-piece’s singer, Phil Elston, was a Brit with a love for Kraftwerk, an interest which, according to the release notes for this collection, his German bandmates “found strange” (which I take to suggest Kraftwerk were not quite as hip in Germany in the 1980s as they were abroad). The band recorded the tracks collected here to TASCAM  four track, alongside one live recording.

So far, so archival reissue…

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Ammar 808

Club Tounsi

From Tunisia via Denmark, Sofyann Ben Youssef matches Arabic scales and Sufi hymns to vintage drum machines and club-ready production styles

Club Tounsi by AMMAR 808

“It was a magical process – I heard this music all the time growing up. It’s like coming home,” says Ammar 808, the moniker of Sofyann Ben Youssef, reflecting on the creation of his latest album. The Denmark-based Tunisian artist has long curated albums that draw on global sounds, incorporating traditional instruments and elements, and suffusing them with modern, club-ready production. His debut album explored traditional North African folk instruments and vocals, blending them with heavy bass and TR-808 drum machine rhythms (hence the name). His follow-up record drew inspiration from South Indian musical…

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Ahead of an appearance at Schwetfest 12.0 in Bristol next month, the French trio speak to David McKenna about their elemental, electric sound and the ties that bind them. Band photographs by Vincent Arbelet

Voltæ (Chthulucene) by FOUDRE!

‘Foudre’ In French means lightning or thunderbolt, and the most recent album from French trio Foudre!, Voltæ (Chthulucene), feels electrically charged, appearing like a bolt from the blue after several albums’ worth of atmospheric drone. It’s their first time recording a proper studio album rather than capturing live performances or entirely improvised sessions. On 2021’s Future Sabbath they were already inching towards this approach by adding overdubs to a recording of a show at Instants Chavirés, Paris’s equivalent to Café Oto, but Voltæ (Chthulucene)…

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Daniel O’Sullivan

Eros

Backed by a 14-piece classical ensemble, the Grumbling Fur member’s latest is both rather whimsical and rather beautiful, finds Ed Power

Eros by DOS

There is a secret-ish history of whimsy as a driving force in English music that runs from the Beatles and early Pink Floyd all the way through to Aphex Twin. Forever approaching silliness yet never tipping over the edge, the mood is summoned anew on Eros, a delightful new orchestral project from Manchester experimental composer Daniel O’Sullivan. 

A wearer of different hats and a conjurer of many moods, O’Sullivan is perhaps best known as one-half of the ominous instrumental duo Grumbling Fur. He has also collaborated with drone metal wizards of chill, Sunn O))), and Norwegian experimental electronic band…

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As his novel Bass Instinct returns to print after 30 years as part of a long-overdue reappraisal of his trilogy of books about jungle, bass and rave in 1990s London, Two Fingas speak to Rob Corsini about being one of the few to document the subculture from within

Photo by Leo Williams

It’s a Saturday night in 1993 and you’re looking for a place to go out, maybe a club, maybe a rave. A friend knows someone who knows someone who’s having a house party. When you arrive you put your bottle in the kitchen. The living room is pitch black, the furniture’s been pushed back against the walls, and the first thing that hits you is the sound. The system is…

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‘The Brown Album’ is pays testament to the thrilling, sometimes contradictory power of rave as a culture, just months before it splintered, says Joe Muggs

Orbital 2 by Orbital

1993 was the last hurrah of rave’s original explosion. In 1994 the Criminal Justice Act would serve as a symbolic clamping down on raving. If you wanted to be fanciful you might paint a picture of it as a boot coming down and smashing the scene’s unity into a million social and stylistic pieces, but in fact things were already fragmenting. Rave culture was still at fever pitch in 1993, but the centre couldn’t hold. All the various elements that had gone into it were pulling away in their own directions,…

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These New Puritans

Crooked Wing

On their fifth album, the brothers Barnett tap into a peculiarly English unusual, channeling their unique romanticism towards new forms of intensity

Crooked Wing by These New Puritans

One of the strengths of These New Puritans is how the expressive vulnerability of Jack Barnett’s vocals sit within the battering of twin brother George’s drumming. In this relationship, I’ve always heard a dance of the aggression and softness of masculinity, something that’s reinforced on their fifth album Crooked Wing by how it begins and ends with the full yet delicate voice of a treble voice from Southend Boys Choir. As the years have passed since I first saw what was then a fourpiece rattling away in tiny London venues, this dynamic has…

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