Gareth Thompson
David Rowe of prog-rock outfit Plank! talks to Gareth Thompson about new album Future of the Sea on Todmorden label Golden Lion Sounds
Australian duo Deyell and Pike soundtrack a pulsating world on the verge of eco-collapse with their new album Isola
A restless seeker and musician, Matchess finds deep aural pathways on Sonescent, her new album of visceral meditations for Drag City
An album with its own secret geography, A Letter from TreeTops finds Woodstock-born Jesse Chandler perfectly at home on Ghost Box Records
Avant-folk trio HAV return with Haar, their vivid and pensive new album of electro-acoustics for Polpols Records
Chicago-based duo Mind Maintenance discuss their devotional new album for Drag City Records with Gareth Thompson
Musician-composer Phil Self talks about pulling pints, the Kentish coast and Peter Greenaway’s influence on his new album Zed Zed
New Jersey jazz-proggers Joy on Fire return with Another Adventure in Red, their most ambitious head trip yet
Rob Mazurek’s latest cosmic carnival of an album for International Anthem is playful, epic and riotously inventive
Burd Ellen’s Debbie Armour talks to Gareth Thompson about sacred dramas, Mary as an Ever Mother and taxidermy wrens
Jim Becker tells Gareth Thompson about sharing compassion, putting the ego down and collaborating with Tibetan healer Lama Lobsang Palden
Healing energies and mystic overtones unite on Jim Becker’s long player with Lama Lobsang Palden for Drag City
Sharron Kraus talks to Gareth Thompson about her Preternatural Investigations podcast and finding ways into a place’s magic and mystery
British-Israeli combo Staraya Derevnya make an extreme montage of noise and rhythm on their latest record Inwards Opened the Floor
Laurence Pike talks to Gareth Thompson about the hellish wildfires that inspired his new album Prophecy for the Leaf Label
Finnish double bassist Ville Herrala conjures raw suspense and offers many surprises on his ambitious debut album Pu: from We Jazz Records
Gareth Thompson visits Thurston Moore and co’s Ecstatic Peace Library pop-up to immerse himself in the John Fahey exhibition
An icy soundtrack to polar exploration, In the Arctic Dreamtime offers a mythic set of guitar improvs from Ivar Grydeland and Henry Kaiser
Northern actress Keeley Forsyth lays bare her own character in the grainy dramas of this compelling debut album for The Leaf Label
Nightmares of a ruined dreamland inspire Brighton’s psychic popster Dog in the Snow on her second album, Vanishing Lands
Gareth Thompson learns how the languages of guitar and cello are apt for interpreting Herman Hesse in a mazy discourse with Bill MacKay and Katinka Kleijn