Strange sounds from Counterflows Glasgow
This episode Josh Thorpe listens to a few recordings from musicians and artists discovered at Glasgow’s Counterflows festival. Artists include an...
This episode Josh Thorpe listens to a few recordings from musicians and artists discovered at Glasgow’s Counterflows festival. Artists include an...
Unusual Music editor Josh Thorpe launches his new album with Toronto’s Ur Audiovisual. Honey, Thorpe’s 5th album, is DIY pop with...
Josh Thorpe and Asad Raza discuss Dan Graham, a radical American artist who died last year around this time. We listen...
Chris Newman’s weird parlour songs first came to via a friend at York University during postgraduate study. At first they didn’t...
Josh Thorpe speaks with Annie Lewandowski and Thomas Bonvalet. We listen to their unusual duet Powerdove, which combines austere melodic singing...
In this episode Josh Thorpe interviews Eric Chenaux, a composer, songwriter, guitarist living in France. Eric makes strange and lovely long...
This track, this whole album, is a psychedelic space of warmth. Sink into it like a mud bath that doesn’t smell...
This episode we take a break from chat. Instead we listen to almost an hour of quiet music. It’s Ryan Driver...
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...
The interplay here, particularly between West’s saxophone and Tania Gill’s piano, has me seeing a malleable object, a bright children’s toy...
New radio show with ResonanceFM. First episode is a collage of previous exchanges with Martin Arnold on the Codex Chantilly, Sublime...
Strange meandering lines that I wish would go forever. They kinda do. Arnold says: “I’ve always maintained that all the music...
These two tracks called Socks and Sandals are lovely buzzing and crackling things. A ticklish kind of sound in the ear...
This trio of women from Zurich make an unusual chorus of bass guitars. Madlaina Peer, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle on Kill...
These sounds are so themselves and so otherworldy. Idiomatic and yet surprising at the same time. Lovely. And lovely in that...
Halvorson on guitar and Courvoisier on piano work magic together. The timbre of the guitar, so similar at times to the...
Pleased to see Eric Chenaux play in Glasgow recently at the Glad Café with Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh. Chenaux’s new album Say...
Very happy to be listening to Dublin composer and improviser Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, now based in Glasgow. This gorgeous track purposelessness...
One of our favourite record labels, Rat-drifting (based in Toronto and France), recently re-launched on BandCamp after a few years of...