library music
Jazz pianist Greg Foat brings Symphonie Pacifique, his latest masterful concoction of jazz, library music and pastoral composition, to Strut Records
Australian instrumentalists Surprise Chef’s marvellous debut LP All News Is Good News recalls mavericks such as David Axelrod, Beastie Boys and Money Mark
Sven Wunder’s Wabi Sabi is a treasure trove of psychedelic breaks and beathead jams for crate diggers, library music aficionados and outsider funk fans
Heron & Crane’s Firesides record is where dipped-in-acid Americana gets a strange makeover by retro-futurist British electronics and library music
Listening Center channels Philip K Dick, back roads and bus shelters with the Time Out of Joint (or, Best Bargains in Multiverse Incisions) mixtape
Listening Center’s latest LP for Polytechnic Youth is a set of warmly welcoming analogue synth compositions that carry the hopes and fears of tomorrow
The Dark Outside’s Stuart McLean talks to Stewart Gardiner about avoiding digital, hollowing out old books and his new soundtracks-for-books cassette label
French label ERR REC have commissioned another volume of library music to spark the imagination on programmes for schools tomorrow and yesterday
Radiophonic cues seep out from liminal spaces on Possum and electronic groans give way to fragile piano work on White Boy Rick
Panamint Manse talks to Stewart Gardiner about tumultuous empathy, hauntology in the desert and where jubilance meets desolation
The shadowy organisation known as The Heartwood Institute have constructed an imaginary reality that listeners can inhabit simply by playing Barsham Faire and The Third Eye
Stewart Gardiner discusses secret histories, retro-futurism and the sharing of cultural markers with the electronic phenomenon known as the Listening Center