OneTwoThree’s strange bass songs
This trio of women from Zurich make an unusual chorus of bass guitars. Madlaina Peer, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle on Kill Rock Stars. ONETWOTHREE by ONETWOTHREE
This trio of women from Zurich make an unusual chorus of bass guitars. Madlaina Peer, Sara Schär, Klaudia Schifferle on Kill Rock Stars. ONETWOTHREE by ONETWOTHREE
These sounds are so themselves and so otherworldy. Idiomatic and yet surprising at the same time. Lovely. And lovely in that it is dedicated to the late Ron Gaskin....
Halvorson on guitar and Courvoisier on piano work magic together. The timbre of the guitar, so similar at times to the piano, allows Halvorson to almost hide notes inside...
Pleased to see Eric Chenaux play in Glasgow recently at the Glad Café with Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh. Chenaux’s new album Say Laura (on Constellation) with Ryan Driver is a...
Very happy to be listening to Dublin composer and improviser Ailbhe nic Oireachtaigh, now based in Glasgow. This gorgeous track purposelessness calls to mind Norwegian hardanger songs, bent by...
One of our favourite record labels, Rat-drifting (based in Toronto and France), recently re-launched on BandCamp after a few years of rest. The other day three new records came...
So complex and dripping with a precise energy of what it is. Four traditionally trained pansori singers, two bassists, a drummer, and a very sweet a disco spirit. Complexity,...
Bells and bell-like sounds and cymbals, and other metal sounds, a searching piano and everything slowed down to a pace of uncertainty; in the middle the double bass like...
Joy with ferocity. Rattling drums and dirty electric guitar feels like punk opera unwound and bent. Recorded live in Portland, Duo Damage, Vol I is loud and distorted in...
Allison Cameron brought this release by Stephen Chase’s mon se taire truc editions to our attention. A tribute to Scratch Orchestra original Carole Finer and a fundraiser for Resonance...
Here’s a composed piece for the Rubber Band Quartet from Toronto improviser and composer Allison Cameron. It’s strange and particular music, radical but gentle, emerging from mundane materials, amplification,...
Poor Isa (Frederik Leroux and Ruben Machtelinckx), “let’s drink the sea and dance”: I sometimes return to a piece of music over and over without knowing why. A return...
Joe Posset of Newcastle does wonderful things with a mini-casette recorder. He’s turned it into a musical instrument to improvise with, as well as a compositional material or a...
It’s nice to hear Robert Wyatt’s voice again, particularly with some heavy guitar licks. I missed this 2020 release when it came out. Halvorson here working also with Amirtha...
Violent, joyful, full of activity and energy. This is Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, and Marshall Trammell on Sige Records. White People Killed Them by WHITE PEOPLE KILLED THEM
A five-member ensemble, led by trumpet player/composer Susana Santos Silva. Unexpected fusions, often signalled by Hugo Raro’s synthesizer work, take to the listener to places of memory—now Radiohead, now...
A special session with Endlings (Ravon Chacon + John Dieterich [of Deerhoof]). Endlings have performed a work specially for Unusual Music Exchange in partnership with CJTR, Dunlop Art Gallery,...
In this episode Josh and Martin listen to Lemon Kittens, Shaggs, Junko, and the Kyoto Imperial Court Orchestra. After the break Josh and Jaye listen to Homo Monstrous, Forced...
This episode is with video artist Renée Lear, who has taken an unusual interest in unusual music. We listen to and discuss unusual music from Ween and Clown Core...
Listen to the music of Martin Arnold, Rudolf Komorous, Archie Shepp, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Nightjars. Martin is a brilliant thinker on the wonderful and the psychedelic, and he...