improvisation

A Certain Kind of Energy: Lee Ranaldo Interview

An in-depth conversation with Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo on European touring, new collaborations and what’s next from the archives

Energies in the Room: S.O.L.L. Interview

Oli Savill and Leon Stenning of London underground jazz outfit S.O.L.L. talk about their meditative and minimal debut album Mind Reader

Cameron Deyell / Laurence Pike – Isola (Endless Recordings)

Australian duo Deyell and Pike soundtrack a pulsating world on the verge of eco-collapse with their new album Isola

Cahill//Costello – Offworld (Gearbox)

Glasgow duo Cahill//Costello chart an improvised course under sheltering skies and ocean depths, with their minimalist debut Offworld

A Canary in the Coal Mine: Laurence Pike Interview

Laurence Pike talks to Gareth Thompson about the hellish wildfires that inspired his new album Prophecy for the Leaf Label

Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser – In the Arctic Dreamtime (Rune Grammofon)

An icy soundtrack to polar exploration, In the Arctic Dreamtime offers a mythic set of guitar improvs from Ivar Grydeland and Henry Kaiser