Friedman & Liebezeit

Shackleton remix of Friedman & Liebezeit out very soon on nonplace. You know its gonna be good!

Daphne Oram

Daphne Oram playing with her power tools

FourColor - Quiet Gray 1

Absolutely beautiful track from Japanese artist Keiichi Sugimoto under his FourColor moniker. This appears on his new album, As Pleat on the fantastic 12K label. Sugimoto uses processed guitar to beautiful effect here, aided by a haunting vocal from Sanae Yamasaki (aka Moskitoo.


Here's some fantastic live footage too


As Pleat website
12K Label

Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents

Chris Abrahams

Chris Abrahams’ “Play Scar” album is without hesitation my favourite record of the year. I was expecting an album of solo piano – he is the pianist with The Necks after all – so I was surprised to find myself listening to an album that mixed electronics, musique concrete, noise and drone with hardly any piano.

He played recently enough in Café Oto in London (a venue I have yet to visit but consistently puts on some of the most amazing acts) but unfortunately, I couldn't get over to see him.

Here is an incredible live clip of Abrahams live. (Not at Cafe Oto.)

The album sounds nothing like this.