Experimental Music
“My relation with the guitar is one of struggle—I’m constantly forcing it to be something else: a saxophone, a scream, a cart rolling down a hill…”
“My relation with the guitar is one of struggle—I’m constantly forcing it to be something else: a saxophone, a scream, a cart rolling down a hill…”
On her newly released collection of circuitous sound works created in the early ’90s.
The Mosotho filmmaker on oral literature, forced resettlement, and stitching together the old and new.
Reissued for the first time after fifty years, the Black Unity Trio’s rare and explosive free jazz album Al-Fatihah still resonates with the sounds of solidarity amid a scene of intense political struggle.
An album inspired by filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage.
Trying to make the freest music possible.
The free jazz saxophonist on new realities for experimental music.
On preserving improvisational force and the fluid collaboration between two musicians.
On resisting the limitations of genre and shifting toward a more spatial approach to composition.
The sound artist on collecting and hunting for language.
“You could dance to it, mourn with it, revel in it, or march alongside it.”
This fall, Concentric Circles will press to vinyl Heterophonious Fool—composer Jack Briece’s sole commercially-released recording…
A perfect hybrid of minimalism and spiritual jazz.
The sound artist on musical prejudices, metal t-shirts, and shortwave radios.
Coaxing elegies from tape loops, the composer propels us from the San Fernando Valley to deep space, then into “the long-form beyond.”
The improvisor and composer contemplates polyphonic pathways and reaching past the self.
A selection of recently reissued music by Takehisa Kosugi, Roger Doyle, Laurie Spiegel, Luciano Cilio, and Dennis Weise.
The performers recount their experiences with Henning Christiansen and his work.
The founder of gelbe MUSIK, the renowned record store and gallery space, speaks about its history.
The two musicians converse about their working-class upbringing, the elitism of the avant-garde, and the politics of goofiness.