Jennifer Lucy Allan

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The Foghorn's Lament @WhiteRabbitBks + #LateJunction @BBCRadio3 + Arc Light Editions + writing for The Wire, The Quietus, Guardian. Agent: @natgalustian

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Rum Music for June Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

2 weeks ago | avantmusicnews.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan

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Golem Mecanique - Siamo Tutti In Percolo | The Quietus

2 months 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.
‘It is about all of humankind’: Ukrainian violinist Valentina Goncharova on her cosmic call to compose

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.
Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Mar 26, 2025 | 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.
Eiko Ishibashi – Antigone | The Quietus

Mar 26, 2025 | 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...
The Strange World Of... Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Mar 25, 2025 | 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.
Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Mar 25, 2025 | thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Patrick Clarke

A chest infection notwithstanding, I spent a lot of time in March unpicking the Maher Shalal Hash Baz back catalogue. I got so tangled up by the manoeuvrings of Tori Kudo that I abandoned my plan to include mostly side quests and stuck to the main thoroughfare, with the exception of one or two things, including adding some pottery to the list.
What the Smallest Artifacts Reveal About the Ancient Cultures That Created Them

Mar 7, 2025 | lithub.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan

Around 27,000 years ago in current-day Czechia, give or take a few thousand years, a person took a handful of earth and sculpted a female figurine. They gave her big drooping breasts, a waist that narrows over a fleshy tummy: a soft-looking muffin-top with a deep belly button poked in its middle; there is a vertical line across her broad hips. Her head is small, simplified, pea-like; her shoulders are narrow with pronounced collarbones. Her arms finish at the elbow, her legs at the shins.
Lucy Railton to Release Debut Solo Cello Project via Ideologic Organ

Mar 6, 2025 | thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Noel Gardner |Luke Turner |Christian Eede

Lucy Railton has shared details of the first release to document her solo cello works, titled Blue Veil. Due out via Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label, the seven compositions featured on the record clock in at around 40 minutes in total and were captured at Église du Saint-Esprit in Paris. You can preview the new record via lead cut ‘Phase III’ below. Ideologic Organ will release Blue Veil on April 18, 2025.
You Say 'Taygo', I Say 'Tahgo'... Opening Can's Pronunciation Can of Worms

Feb 28, 2025 | thequietus.com | John Doran |Jennifer Lucy Allan

I’m in the little brown painted loft room, headphones on, my microphone stacked on top of both of Peter Guralnick’s books on Elvis, recording this week’s episode of Late Junction for BBC Radio 3. My producer Silvia is on the line listening for hiccups, frogs, stutters and mispronunciations. It’s a coffee special, with songs about cups of Joe, caffeinated electronic music, percolating jazz. Next up: Can’s ‘Bring Me Coffee Or Tea’. “Some of you might know this one”, I say.