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Chris Newman’s strange parlour music makes me happy

Chris Newman’s weird parlour songs first came to via a friend at York University during postgraduate study. At first they didn’t...

In this episode Josh Thorpe interviews Eric Chenaux, a composer, songwriter, guitarist living in France. Eric makes strange and lovely long...

This month editor Josh Thorpe’s How Things Happen launched with Canadian / French imprint Rat-drifting. Eric Chenaux writes: “Thorpe’s How Things...

Ailbhe joins me to listen to the viola, the violin, some guitars, a horse-hair harp, some outside jazz and a sewing...

New radio show with ResonanceFM. First episode is a collage of previous exchanges with Martin Arnold on the Codex Chantilly, Sublime...

These sounds are so themselves and so otherworldy. Idiomatic and yet surprising at the same time. Lovely. And lovely in that...

Pleased to see Eric Chenaux play in Glasgow recently at the Glad Café with Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh. Chenaux’s new album Say...

One of our favourite record labels, Rat-drifting (based in Toronto and France), recently re-launched on BandCamp after a few years of...

Allison Cameron brought this release by Stephen Chase’s mon se taire truc editions to our attention. A tribute to Scratch Orchestra...

Here’s a composed piece for the Rubber Band Quartet from Toronto improviser and composer Allison Cameron. It’s strange and particular music,...