Anton Anishchanka

Krope

The Minsk-based field recordist and composer leads an extraordinary psychogeographic ramble around Belarus

Krope by Anton Anishchanka

Belarus is not a place necessarily known for its transparency, which is why Krope feels like such an unexpected and extraordinary psychogeographic ramble around a country largely estranged from the rest of Europe. Anton Anishchanka, field recordist and composer, was pleasantly surprised when he went along to the Institute of Art History, Ethnography and Folklore in Minsk around the time of the pandemic and found he was able to access an archive of field recordings from roughly 1960 to 2005. Thanks to the ethnographer and researcher Iryna Vasilyeva, who works at the institute, Anishchanka managed to retrieve Belarusian folklore songs from various regions, forming…

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The leading Jamaican reggae singer and actor had hits with songs like ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’ and ‘I Can See Clearly Now’

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer and actor who helped to put reggae on the global music map, has died at the age of 81.

An Instagram post shared by his wife Latifa Chambers said: “It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia. I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow artists and coworkers who have shared his journey with him. To all his fans around the world, please know that your support was his strength throughout his whole career. Jimmy, my darling,…

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It’s the first artificial intelligence music startup to secure deals with Warner, Universal and Sony

Warner Music Group (WMG), Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME) have signed licensing deals with AI music technology company Klay Vision Inc., making it the first AI music startup to secure licensing deals with all three major record companies.

A press release announcing the respective deals said that they would “help further evolve music experiences for fans, leveraging the potential of AI, while fully respecting the rights of artists, songwriters, and rights holders.” Klay says it “is not a prompt-based meme generation engine”, but rather a “new subscription product that will uplift great artists and celebrate their craft”.

The company added that it works with the music industry to…

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Some of the items which previously belonged to Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider sold for more than ten times their original list price

An auction of Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider’s personal items has fetched record sale prices, after many lots sold for more than ten times their estimated worth.

Schneider’s Roland TR-606 drum machine sold for $5,120, more than ten times its list price, while his Sennheiser VSM-201 went for $256,000, more than eight times its expected price. Among the other music gear sold was an EMS Synthi A from the early 70s, which sold for $115,200, over seven times what was predicted.

Other high-price items sold in the auction included the Panasonic Panaracer bicycle that was seen in the music video for ‘Tour de…

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Daniel Dylan Wray reports back from last night’s My Bloody Valentine gig in Manchester which became a tribute to Mani… but also a demonstration of the healing powers of noise and volume. All photographs by Isaac Watson

“Mani used to like this song,” says Kevin Shields, before the jet engine roar of ‘Soon’ comes whirring to life and envelops the room with a blast radius that feels like it could shatter windows for miles. The deep throbbing pulse of the song moves in waves, almost inducing the feeling of sea sickness, such is the power of the motions that thrash like a raging ocean. Then there’s a sudden silence as the power cuts out. “It must be Mani fucking about,” laughs…

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Daniel Spicer speaks to dynamic drummer, composer, improviser Makaya McCraven about how jazz is a metaphor for life. Main portrait by Itzi Marques

Techno Logic (featuring Theon Cross & Ben LaMar Gay) by Makaya McCraven

“Improvisation is messy. Life is complicated.” Speaking over Zoom from his home in Chicago, drummer/ composer/ producer Makaya McCraven is getting philosophical. “Life is going to give us surprises, twists and turns. You can’t predict everything. The unexpected is around the corner, and we are improvising through the unknown, barrelling through the universe at all times…  and you sharpen your skills to live the best and most productive and happiest life that you can for you and those around you. To me, that is improvising. I mean…

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Lia Kohl

Various Small Whistles and a Song

With collaborators including Claire Rousay, Patrick Shiroishi and Maisie Stewart, the Chicago-based cellist and composer draws rich seams of resonance from snatches of everyday audio

Various Small Whistles and a Song by Lia Kohl

Lia Kohl’s new album is part-sound installation, part-deep ambient reflection, part-state of the globe audio survey. She uses field recordings, synthesisers and instrumentation to build a set of tracks, inspired by a set of photographs.

The album title, Various Small Whistles and a Song, references US photographer Ed Ruscha’s 1964 book, Various Small Fires and Milk. It consisted of sixteen black and white photos. Fifteen show everyday objects alight – a matchbook, a stove, a cigarette – and one final image showed a quenching…

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Following the recent release of Before You Press Play, their first album together, the young Atlanta-based rapper-producers speak to Christian Eede about finding their feet as vocalists, preconceptions with Atlanta rap, and the pitfalls of irony and complacency within their current music scene

“We had known each other for years online because we were hanging out in the same Discord servers with different homies.” Dorian Williams, AKA 19-year-old rapper-producer FearDorian, is filling me in on how he and collaborator Quinn Dupree, the alias of fellow 20-year-old rapper-producer osquinn, first connected. It’s a reasonably routine meeting story for two Gen Z teenagers, but one that he certainly hasn’t taken for granted as their friendship has grown since. “There are definitely people I…

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Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller for the BBC

One wet Autumn night, a photograph of a young woman appears on my Instagram feed. “Back in the day, I worked on Edge Of Darkness,” her post begins. I’m taken back to Bob Peck in the rain, Joanne Whalley in his arms, small black flowers on hillsides, and one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series, currently back on BBC iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary.

Forty Autumns earlier, Val Harris (née Turner) was the production assistant on a six-part drama that still defies classification and convention. Edge Of Darkness is a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of…

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Jugaad

Re-Semblance

The second release on Berlin label Hochspannung Produktion finds Dhani Muniz and Nishad Pandey operating on a broad, cinematic palette

Re-Semblance by जुगाड़ (Jugaad)

According to the BBC, ‘jugaad’ is “an untranslatable word for winging it”. A musical duo of that name gives a more specific definition for this Hindi term: “a way of accomplishing a set goal with very finite resources”. While these sources are not miles away in their interpretation, the perspectives are different. “Ultimately, there’s no real word in English that captures the essence of jugaad”, the BBC journalist concedes.​Comprising Dhani Muniz and Nishad Pandey, the musicians of Indian-Brazilian and Indian descent, Jugaad ponder over the change in the meaning. What used to be a derogatory term with a…

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