Paul’s Review Corner
Going for a minimal slant. Pretty pictures and web links. All good. Buy and please your ears.
Review / Kham Lingstang Band / Solan
I met Kham Lingstang about a month ago. He had been up for 48 hours (in the same shirt) and I had been drinking the fruit punch, so our conversation was a tad cyclical, but I distinctly remember Kham telling me that he hadn`t made any music recently. His “HR” responsibilities at LN-CC keeping him...
Review / KA§PAR / Ode To The Ancients EP
‘Ode To The Ancients’ comes across a little like C2 when he was still only 69. Or a paperclip person. That can only be a compliment. ‘Twin Sparkle’ is late night jam in a Chicago bedroom. Getting severely stoned with Larry Thompson and Rick Lenoir. House Jam on modern drugs. ‘Able To Find’ moves forwards...
Boat Drinks / Stop Making Sense Festival / Petracane
Giacomo is our roving techno reporter. Well he likes all sorts of stuff but generally he writes about techno and things related. He has just come back from the Stop Making Sense festival in Petracane so we asked him to give us a run down of how it was… Now in its second year, Stop...
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas / Fase / Four Movements To The Music Of Steve Reich
I’ve just got in from Saddlers Wells after watching Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase – Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. The piece first premiered in 1982 in Brussels and uses Piano Phase, Come Out, Violin Phase and Clapping Music. It’s not in my skill set to do the work justice with words...
Laurie Anderson / Trisha Brown / Gordon Matta-Clark / Pioneers of the Downtown Scene New York 1970s
Today me and the boy (my 13 year old son) visited the new Barbican exhibition. Apparently a lot of the work comes from the time that the downtown NY scene came together across the mediums of art, music, dance and architecture (often all in the same piece). By the way, excuse the bad iPhone photos...
DJ Harvey at Eleven / Macho / I’m A Man
All the smart people said they were going late. I’d been having conversations with people all week about the best time to go to see Harvey at Eleven. The last gig of his current Japanese tour. The queues would be horrendous at 10. It would be rammed until all the “non-music” club kids went home...
Four Tet / There Is Love In You / Domino
Quick review on the new Four Tet album, ‘There Is Love In You’ (nice hippie title!) here. There are some fantastic tracks ranging from mellow electronica through to some quite uptempo 4/4 business all very much in the chopped and fx’d mould of music that Kieran Hebden specialises in. My favourite track is the rolling...
Caught By The River
Been reading this recently and it’s suiting my lazy summer mood. Caught By The River (A Collection Of Words On Water) is the first book from fishing and culture website – Caught By The River – a view of the world as seen from the bankside. Contributors include (the always good) Bill Drummond, Irvine Welsh,...
Coyote / Harlyn Bay
Coyote have been releasing records for a little while now. We got sent their new album ‘Harlyn Bay’ to review so rather than one of us doing it, I thought it would be good to sit down and play it to my eleven year-old Danny to see what he thought. Current bangers for Danny include...
David Byrne Came To Town
So the Talking Heads frontman hit London and all reports were it was amazing. Facebook was buzzing the next day and it seemed like half of London was there. Well at least half of London that I know. Was gutted to have missed the shows but glad to see he’s back in London in August...