Understated yet subtly devastating, the Oakland, California-baed artist turns down the aggression of previous album Spike Field in favour of a more tender kind of violence

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In life and art, strong emotional reactions and restraint are frequently placed at odds with one another. A decade that has felt unmoored at best and marked by upheaval – dotted with climate events that have wrought havoc on different locales and been quickly forgotten – has inspired plenty of bold artistic responses. For Maria BC, an artist whose work has covered dark folk and goth territory and who has explored the potential of different electronic elements, the impulse to respond to these environmental pressures by being louder, denser, more aggressive would seem…

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The Odes

Dejeuner Sous L’Herbe

Blurt’s punk poet Ted Milton teams up with Sam Britton for some linguistic détournement, backed by tense electronics

Déjeuner Sous L'Herbe by The Odes

Dejeuner Sous L’Herbe, The Odes’ new release, is a crazy, underground and slightly hellish poetic collage by the revered Ted Milton of Blurt and co-conspirator Sam Britton (aka Isambard Khroustaliov). Milton, who has rubbed shoulders with none other than William S. Burroughs as well as Eric Clapton, pours no wave punk agitation into about 35 minutes and 43 tracks of dadaist linguistic abstraction. The release is presented as two halves: part one music, part two isolated voice.

Édouard Manet’s painting, Le Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe is flipped on its head on The Odes’ album cover artwork and…

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Warren Hatter reflects on a life of an extraordinary and innovative artist, ignored for most of her life before being celebrated this century and creating a wave of thrilling collaborations in her eighties

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Only a handful of people over 25 years old could honestly say they grew up with the music of groundbreaking French composer Éliane Radigue, because her work was largely unreleased or unknown until this century. So the scale and warmth of the reaction to her death on Monday can’t be attributed to nostalgia, though it is what you’d expect on the passing of a long-loved artist. Instead, this widespread love for Radigue and the impact she has had on so many listeners and artists is a…

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Vic Bang

Oda

Sampling and synthesizing sounds both uncannily familiar and eerily strange, Argentine artist Victoria Barca has made a sinuous ode to small things

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How and where we listen to music is hugely important. I would venture to say that it often has a significant impact on how we perceive it. I listen to Oda by Argentine artist Vic Bang in my aunt’s temporary flat, where I am staying now. In one room, a huge carpet several metres long lies on the floor, while in the next, the walls are lined with panelling. I feel a bit like I’m in a Kashubian cottage on holiday by the lake in the 1990s, while on the other hand, it feels like a variation…

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Jakub Knera offers us ten entry points into the back catalogue of the guitar player who is at home in the world of folk and sea shanties as he is covering Autechre and Aphex Twin. Main image by Petra Cvelbar

Just when you think you know everything there is to know about the guitar, here comes Shane Parish to show that you are mistaken. This can be heard on both acoustic and electric instruments; in brilliant recordings made with the Bill Orcutt Quartet and Ahleuchatistas; playing his own music and interpreting shanties and songs by Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, and Autechre, as exemplified by his latest album, Autechre Guitar, released by Palilalia Records this week.

Since his first serious band, the Union Prayer…

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Claire Sawers leaves Ljubljana with her cortex tickled and shaken by Turkish psych, sludgy doom metal, clattering techno, chaotic glitchcore, a tin whistle and a hurdy gurdy at a festival showcasing the Balkans and beyond

You can’t spell mental transformation without MENT. Shot by Lenart Lukšič

Good luck, frankly, to any algorithm that attempts to recommend music to me after analysing complex brain data from me during MENT festival. Over four nights my auditory cortex finds itself tickled and shaken by Turkish psych, sludgy doom metal, clattering techno, chaotic glitchcore, a tin whistle and a hurdy gurdy. This festival in Ljubljana – now in its 12th year – includes the folksy and the far out, guiding its international crowd of punters and…

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No cause of death has been disclosed

Éliane Radigue, the French composer and pioneer of musique concrète, has died at the age of 94.

INA GRM, the Paris-based experimental music institute, broke the news on social media, writing: “It’s with immense sadness that we learn of the passing of Éliane Radigue at the age of 94. A major figure in musical creation has left us. She pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists.”

No cause of death has been disclosed.

Widely under-recognised during her younger years, Radigue’s extensive catalogue of work gained significantly more acknowledgement in her later life via a…

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Lamisi

Let Us Clap

A bracing burst of African Futurism from the Ghanaian powerhouse, Lamisi

Let Us Clap by Lamisi

To truly grasp the weight of Let Us Clap, you have to first feel the vibration of the road. It’s a 15-hour haul from the humid, neon-flecked sprawl of Accra up to the arid stretches of Zebilla in the Upper East Region. This is a journey that sheds the slickness of the capital, trading the high-life gloss for themes of grassy savannah and the sharp, percussive reality of the Kusasi people. In Zebilla, clapping isn’t just a gesture of polite approval; it’s more of a communal language, a complex architecture of palms striking palms that defines the rhythm of the day. Lamisi, a powerhouse…

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Julian Hand & Demian Castellanos

Callanish Audio Visual Research

Julian Marszalek considers an eye-opening multi-media project of film, soundtrack and book which found its genesis in a 5,000-year-old stone circle in the Outer Hebrides

Callanish Audio Visual Research OST + Film Access by Demian Castellanos

For many of a certain vintage – this writer included – any contemporary fascination with ancient stone circles and ritual landscapes owes less to academic / archaeological study than it does to the children’s television shows of the 1970s that were steeped in lithic terror. The obvious and oft-mentioned touchstone today is the 1977 ITV series Children Of The Stones, a seven-part drama set in a village encircled by ancient megaliths where something is palpably and profoundly wrong.

But Children…

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Our electronic music columnist argues for the importance of trusting the curator and delivers new gear for the club, soundtracks for afters and other, weirder stuff

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I recently interviewed Slovenian DJ and promoter Lottie for a Slovenian magazine who discussed the idea of throwing club nights without lineup reveals, how exciting it would be to go out without knowing what you’ll get, simply trusting the process. For over a decade, as long as I have been actively involved in the local club scene, this has only happened to me on one, maybe two occasions. Maybe it’s more common elsewhere, but here in Ljubljana, even if you run an in-demand night with hardcore devotees it is practically impossible, even preposterous to expect…

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