Jennifer Lucy Allan

1 month ago | thequietus.com | David McKenna |Jennifer Lucy Allan |Bobby Barry |Luke Cartledge

The life and work of pioneering poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini casts a long shadow over this record from French artist Karen Jebane, also known as Golem Mecanique. The album’s title, which translates as “we are all in danger”, is derived from the final interview Pasolini gave before his still-unsolved murder in 1975, and a sense of threat pervades the record from start to finish. This is a dense, foreboding album, its scale and texture as unforgiving as a vast, broiling body of water.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan

On 7 October 2023, Kyiv-born, Tallinn-based violinist and electronic musician Valentina Goncharova “woke up in a bad state”, she says. “I felt something terrible was happening on our planet … I called my sister and brother in Ukraine. Nothing had happened to them. But I continued to feel some kind of uncontrollable violence. “An inner impulse told me: ‘You must urgently return to work.’ I turned on the electric violin, put on Tibetan percussion instruments, and began recording,” she says.

2 months ago | avantmusicnews.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan

A source for news on music that is challenging, interesting, different, progressive, introspective, or just plain weirdArchives Source: The Quietus. Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, re-tuned fiddles that wallop and croon in equal measure, clattering 1980s Japanese post punk and moreSubscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

2 months ago | thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Bobby Barry |Levi Dayan

Drag City It’s been such a long time since Eiko Ishibashi produced the kind of leftfield pop music that her early solo work centered around, you might have assumed she was finished with the medium. She’s covered a lot of ground since then. Her previous release in this vein, 2018’s The Dream My Bones Dream, felt like a towering achievement, a stunningly multifaceted meditation on time and memory inspired by the passing of her father and his family’s history in the imperial Japanese puppet...

2 months ago | thequietus.com | John Doran |Jennifer Lucy Allan

As futile pieces of music writing go, this takes the biscuit. I’ve surveyed some sprawling discographies in my time but Tori Kudo is in another league. A platform that hosts music you say? He’ll have something up in a minute. A survey like this goes directly against his ethos – “archiving has always been linked to death,” he writes when I ask about his snowballing Bandcamp.