Congo Journey
In her hut in Poto-Poto, the poor quarter of Brazzaville, the feticheuse, smiling at us, knelt on the floor, drew out a handful of cowrie shells from the cloth bag at her waist, and cast them across the raffia mat. Lary Shaffer and I, despite ourselves, leaned forward...
Best Albums List of 2019
So long 2019, howdo 2020. Another big year for music, with plenty of great albums and quite a few 'orphaned' tracks coming out too (suspect the album's importance has taken a big hit with the onset of Spotify as the primary listening platform for many). Enough blah...
Snorecore
Snorecore is actually a slightly different style of music, heroes of which include Low, Spaceman 3, Red House Painters, etc. That's all well and good, but they won't lull your eyelids as seductively as this playlist that sits more in the warm drone, lowercase...
The Overstory
The things she catches Doug-firs doing, over the course of these years, fill her with joy. When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafted knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and...
Ninja Tune compilation compilation
Ninja Tune, the greatest recording organisation in the world, presents a demonstration of their new stereophonic discs... So many damn demonstrations it's hard to keep up! Almost certainly my all time favourite record label, Ninja Tune, has been putting out...