Featuring photographer Traianos Pakioufakis LP cover works
Along various collaborations across art, music and fashion, Traianos Pakioufakis has created a series of LP sleeves for an array of artists including The Necks, Keiji Haino, Jim o Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Andrew Pekler, Bill Kouligas and Merzbow.
The Necks – OPEN (2013)
Following on from their two track LP release, Mindset (2011), Open sees legendary artists-in-resonance The Necks return to the territory they are best known for, a single piece running for over an hour.
True to its title, Open possesses a stillness, drawing the listener into a spacious soundworld.
New Music Jazz Magazine for Creative Music in Athens
The Jazz Fanzine NEW MUSIC is a new entry in the Athenian scene that supports creative and contemporary music.
NewMusic magazine spoke to Antony Braxton on November 13, 2022 when he performed at Barbican with his New Acoustic Quartet, featuring American bassist Carl Testa, Cologne based Brazilian drummer, Mariá Portugal and Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva.
CIRCA 20:23 manifesto, ‘Hope: The Art of Reading What Is Not Yet Written
The CIRCA PRIZE 2023 invited a global community of artists, performers, poets, activists, architects, gamers and filmmakers to respond to the CIRCA 20:23 manifesto, ‘Hope: The Art of Reading What Is Not Yet Written
Improvisations in Parallel Mode
Improvisations (aka Meditations) in Parallel Mode. A journey in the greek countryside meeting local performers. A visual soundtrack directed by Petros Kolotouros
My Obsession With the Necks, the Greatest Trio on Earth
It all begins, as things tend to, with sex. More exactly, with “Sex,” their first album, released in 1989 after they had been playing together in Sydney for a couple of years.
Meikyoku Kissa Lion – Tokyo’s Baroque cinema of sound
Translated as ‘classical masterpiece café’, Meikyoku Kissa’s aesthetic is reflected in the interior, with 3-metre-high custom-made speakers embedded into the back wall, like a church pipe organ. They were hand-crafted by local carpenters in 1950, to the then owner’s personal specifications.
Herbie Hancock on life, death, faith and friendship with Wayne Shorter
Musical legend Herbie Hancock celebrated his 83rd birthday on 12th of April. The pianist, composer and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master was also friends for decades with fellow jazz icon saxophonist Wayne Shorter. The two lions of jazz played music together and practiced Buddhism together for more than half a century.
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra
Lately The New York Times has asked jazz musicians, writers and scholars to share the favorites that would make a friend fall in love with Duke Ellington, Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and jazz vocals. Now putting the spotlight on Sun Ra, the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader whose idiosyncratic blend of jazz imagined life on other planets.
Homage To Pharoah Sanders
Two hours paying tribute to the great Pharoah Sanders who recently departed this planet, leaving behind him a treasure of work that not only immensely influenced jazz music but also taught his peers and the future generations the simple notions of love, peace, consciousness and spirituality.
Spirits don’t die. Rest in Power.
Chicago OPTION Series
OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Ken Vandermark. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a ‘salon’ format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform.
IANNIS XENAKIS: SONIC ODYSSEYS @EMST
In the 1950s, Xenakis broke the boundaries of contemporary music and devised a genre of music that is entirely unique. EMΣΤ is pleased to present the first major comprehensive exhibition in Greece of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001).
MILT JACKSON AND THE THELONIOUS MONK QUINTET LP
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson appeared on a number of Blue Note sessions throughout the bebop era in the late 1940s and early 1950s including a 1952 date under his leadership which featured the original line-up of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Cashmere Guest Mix w/ Ilias Pitsios (Into The light/ Echovolt Records)
Back in May 2018, we had the pleasure to host Ilias Pitsios from Into The Light Records at Cashmere Radio. This session was a colourful one. Let the frequencies flow!
Sonore – Brötzmann / Vandermark / Gustafsson
recorded at Cafe Oto, London for BBC Radio 3, april 20th 2011
all compositions by Brötzmann, Vandermark and Gustafsson.
Peter Brötzmann, legend of free jazz, dies at 82
The saxophonist whose performance style made him a central figure in European jazz, has died on June 22 2023. RIP Maestro.
Revisiting the psychedelic creations of Moki Cherry
‘People didn’t think of her work as fine art’: revisiting the psychedelic creations of Moki Cherry
Brian Eno on “Scenius” aka community “Genius”.
Brian Eno on “Scenius” aka community “Genius” aka Intelligence generated by communities .
Matthew Herbert’s Manifesto
This is his Manifesto from 2003, called PCCOM (Personal Contract for the Composition of Music) [incorporating the manifesto of mistakes]
The Necks on The Wire – March 2023
The Australian trio have created a radical new open form for musical improvisation with hour-long performances that touch upon motorik rock, minimalist composition, drone and more.
Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors
Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance. Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves.
This is your Brain on Music
Daniel Levitin, a sound engineer turned neuroscientist, delivers fascinating insights into the neural, emotional, and cognitive processes of making and listening to music.
Three Blind Mice (TBM)
Japanese jazz label set up by producer Takeshi Fujii in 1970. Uncompromising recording, high-level craftsmanship, manual cutting.
Madlib- Shades of Blue (2LP Reissue)
The sound of Blue Note Records has been embedded in hip-hop since the music’s early days. Madlib invaded the Blue Note vaults to create his 2003 masterpiece Shades of Blue.
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser is a 1988 American documentary film about the life of bebop pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. Directed by Charlotte Zwerin.
A manifesto by Susan Abulhawa
I stumbled upon this manifesto on WePresent, a list of 10 rules for living by Susan Abulhawa, writer, activist and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine. The illustration is by Chantal Jahchan.
Artificial Intelligence in Music
CTM 2018’s Turmoil theme explored the state of music and sound practice in the face of a confusing and critical present. Array of discussion, from over-optimistic to ethically troubled.
The Distortion of Sound
The Distortion of Sound is a documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music.
Kay Suzuki on Cashmere Radio
Time Capsule Label mastermind, Kay Suzuki, takes us on a journey through interstellar meditations, fusion jazz, groovy bass lines, western strings gone East, Wayne Shorter gone dub.
Tracing the Lines of International Anthem by Tom Skinner
Tracing The Lines is a creative exploration of International Anthem Recording and the community that surrounds it.
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International Anthem Records
International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company with the mission to make positive contributions to the changing state of the music industry.
A visual chronicle of Tokyo’s disappearing jazz bars
Sanctuaries for jazz enthusiasts where the music is played on vinyl through aging sound systems, slowly disappearing.
Mediterranean Sea View, 2017
As inferred by the work’s title, ‘Mediterranean Sea View’ alludes to the lives lost at sea during the European migrant ‘crisis’ of the 2010s.