Oliver Arditi

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  • Jez Carr, Simon Little & Mike Haughton – Foreground Music, Vol. I (jazz)

    Jez Carr, Simon Little & Mike Haughton – Foreground Music, Vol. I (jazz)

    All that Simon Little, who seems to be the member of this trio with principal responsibility for promoting Foreground Music, Vol. I, has to say about this music on his Bandcamp page is that ‘[i]n November 2012, three musicians came together to play freely improvised music and recorded everything.’ Freedom, it should be noted, is… Read more

  • Luminous Monsters/ Guanoman – We Go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire (drone/ math)

    Luminous Monsters/ Guanoman – We Go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire (drone/ math)

    We Go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire is a split release, split in the same sense as the protagonist of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club’s personality. Both of the projects contributing to this release are the sole work of one musician, although they possess quite distinctive characters; Guanoman is described as a ‘purveyor… Read more

  • Various Artists – Album Roundup

    Various Artists – Album Roundup

    Worlds collide in Dementio 13’s latest release, albeit without the biblical histrionics and cataclysmic consequences that usually dance attendance on such events in fiction. There has always been more to Dementio 13 than the electronica with which he has populated his records, and he has always been a musician of unusual erudition, drawing his language… Read more

  • Brooke Sharkey – One Dress (folk)

    Brooke Sharkey – One Dress (folk)

    It can be quite hard to find your place as a singer-songwriter; it’s an idiom whose audience mainly appreciates acoustic music, and mainly doesn’t appreciate anything too weird. Its audience also has a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for frankly indistinguishable assemblages of strummed steel-string guitar and predictable vocal melodies; it’s asking an awful lot of vocal… Read more

  • Guapo – History Of The Visitation (avant-rock)

    Guapo – History Of The Visitation (avant-rock)

    Guapo is a band with some form; since 1995 they have released a fistful of EPs and nine albums, and although the line-up and sound have changed considerably over that time, the name has been attached to music that shows a consistent and determined belief in the value of creative exploration. This music is progressive;… Read more

  • Monday Musing: If Property Is Theft, Who Stole Our Music?

    Monday Musing: If Property Is Theft, Who Stole Our Music?

    Meaningful utterances can be represented in physical form: a spoken sentence may be represented symbolically by writing, or mimetically, by an audio recording. Such representations may be reproduced indefinitely, whether by a symbolic process (someone reads the words and writes them down again) or a mimetic one (someone makes a photocopy of the writing). Each… Read more