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www.freq.org.uk - a magazine about music, film and more online since April 1998
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Sven Wunder – Daybreak https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sven-wunder-daybreak/ Swedish composer Joel Danell has been trading under the name of Sven Wunder since 2019's Doğu Çiçekler (Eastern Flowers) and each release seems to refine his romantic take on widescreen […]
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November 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Sven Wunder – Daybreak https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sven-wunder-daybreak/ Swedish composer Joel Danell has been trading under the name of Sven Wunder since 2019's Doğu Çiçekler (Eastern Flowers) and each release seems to refine his romantic take on widescreen […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Isambard Khroustaliov and Ben Carey – Field Recordings From Other Constellations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/khroustaliov-carey/ An immediate ignition; a series of fluttering electronic sound signals arrival. The where is hard to spot as the constant chirrup […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Isambard Khroustaliov and Ben Carey – Field Recordings From Other Constellations https://freq.org.uk/reviews/khroustaliov-carey/ An immediate ignition; a series of fluttering electronic sound signals arrival. The where is hard to spot as the constant chirrup […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Will Glaser – Music Of The Terrazoku: Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future https://freq.org.uk/reviews/will-glaser-music/ Terrazoku: an Earth tribe of the future brought into being by the climate apocalypse of the late twenty-first century; a […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Will Glaser – Music Of The Terrazoku: Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future https://freq.org.uk/reviews/will-glaser-music/ Terrazoku: an Earth tribe of the future brought into being by the climate apocalypse of the late twenty-first century; a […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Tortoise / Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer (live at The Prospect Building) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tortoise-live-2025/ ...those open-ended adventurers flew fiery from the start. Nevada(ry) soft focus they descend -- all desert twilights and snaky […]
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November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Tortoise / Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer (live at The Prospect Building) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tortoise-live-2025/ ...those open-ended adventurers flew fiery from the start. Nevada(ry) soft focus they descend -- all desert twilights and snaky […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
The Sabres Of Paradise / Alex Knight (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sabres-of-paradise-live-2025/ With four red lights and plenty of dry ice, the group in their sharp suits and nonchalant swagger looked like a dissolute Rat Pack, each […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Sabres Of Paradise / Alex Knight (live at Strange Brew) https://freq.org.uk/reviews/sabres-of-paradise-live-2025/ With four red lights and plenty of dry ice, the group in their sharp suits and nonchalant swagger looked like a dissolute Rat Pack, each […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Frankenstein https://freq.org.uk/reviews/frankenstein-2025/ Rather than shocking new life into a familiar legend, respectable horror nerd Guillermo del Toro pores over Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction masterpiece with the studious attention of a […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Frankenstein https://freq.org.uk/reviews/frankenstein-2025/ Rather than shocking new life into a familiar legend, respectable horror nerd Guillermo del Toro pores over Mary Shelley’s seminal science fiction masterpiece with the studious attention of a […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Corporal / Sister Ray Davies – Holy Island / Perrache – Letter To Jane EP / Loula Yorke – Hydrology / Polypores – Hungry Vortex https://freq.org.uk/reviews/november-2025-roundup/ There is undoubtedly no productivity crisis in the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – Corporal / Sister Ray Davies – Holy Island / Perrache – Letter To Jane EP / Loula Yorke – Hydrology / Polypores – Hungry Vortex https://freq.org.uk/reviews/november-2025-roundup/ There is undoubtedly no productivity crisis in the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
The Fall – Seminal Live https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-fall-seminal-live/ @Hakarl: "Do we need Fall reissues" seems like the wrong question. We're getting them and they're going to be somewhere between glut and porcelain. Though it being #thefall you take […]
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November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The Fall – Seminal Live https://freq.org.uk/reviews/the-fall-seminal-live/ @Hakarl: "Do we need Fall reissues" seems like the wrong question. We're getting them and they're going to be somewhere between glut and porcelain. Though it being #thefall you take […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Tim Hill – Leviathan Whispers https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-hill-leviathan-whispers/ This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, something the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Tim Hill – Leviathan Whispers https://freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-hill-leviathan-whispers/ This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, something the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Swans / Jessica Moss (live at Brixton Electric) Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. In fact, Swans evolve to such a degree that I reckon given a long enough tour, one of their songs is infinitely more likely […]
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November 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Swans / Jessica Moss (live at Brixton Electric) Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. In fact, Swans evolve to such a degree that I reckon given a long enough tour, one of their songs is infinitely more likely […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum) When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum) When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Phew / Freddy Murphy (live at the Jam Jar) When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours. This bamboo beat is introduced, whipped in rhythmic rat tails and trapped moth zither. The sounds […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Phew / Freddy Murphy (live at the Jam Jar) When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours. This bamboo beat is introduced, whipped in rhythmic rat tails and trapped moth zither. The sounds […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Lovers – Lettres d’Amour Linda Oláh and Giani Caserotto have been in various separate bands for the best part of twenty years, with Linda also spending time with the French Orchestre National de #jazz. Having known one another for some time, this is their […]
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November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lovers – Lettres d’Amour Linda Oláh and Giani Caserotto have been in various separate bands for the best part of twenty years, with Linda also spending time with the French Orchestre National de #jazz. Having known one another for some time, this is their […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Kreidler – Early Recordings 1994-95 Some tracks from the cassette release Riva and their first untitled vinyl release have been compiled to show how quickly the basic idea of Kreidler fell into place. Some of the assembled tracks are tiny snippets that seem […]
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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Kreidler – Early Recordings 1994-95 Some tracks from the cassette release Riva and their first untitled vinyl release have been compiled to show how quickly the basic idea of Kreidler fell into place. Some of the assembled tracks are tiny snippets that seem […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Nocturnal Emissions / Nigel Ayers – Reports Of Debris What an adventure this is. All The Horned Animals have taken a massive bite out of the impossible task of documenting Nigel Ayers’ (the man behind Nocturnal Emissions' enduring existence) ever-evolving […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Nocturnal Emissions / Nigel Ayers – Reports Of Debris What an adventure this is. All The Horned Animals have taken a massive bite out of the impossible task of documenting Nigel Ayers’ (the man behind Nocturnal Emissions' enduring existence) ever-evolving […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Prolapse / Shoun Shoun / The Charlie Tipper Experience (live at The Golden Lion) The last night of a short UK tour for the rejuvenated #prolapse found us making our way on a miserable evening up the Gloucester Road in Bristol to The Golden Lion pub, a proper […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Prolapse / Shoun Shoun / The Charlie Tipper Experience (live at The Golden Lion) The last night of a short UK tour for the rejuvenated #prolapse found us making our way on a miserable evening up the Gloucester Road in Bristol to The Golden Lion pub, a proper […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Laura Cole – Sky Chord / Haptic Space Laura's familiarity with the chosen tracks means that their transition from Axis pieces to #solo #piano affairs for disc one is absolutely seamless, retaining the initial seed, but taking it into a whole other realm.. the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Laura Cole – Sky Chord / Haptic Space Laura's familiarity with the chosen tracks means that their transition from Axis pieces to #solo #piano affairs for disc one is absolutely seamless, retaining the initial seed, but taking it into a whole other realm.. the […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
Duo Reflections – La Tregua Their sound is one of communion and discovery and this latest album draws together eight originals and one cover of an old Denis Badault track, and further pushes their adventures beyond the realms of #jazz and into a silvery […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Duo Reflections – La Tregua Their sound is one of communion and discovery and this latest album draws together eight originals and one cover of an old Denis Badault track, and further pushes their adventures beyond the realms of #jazz and into a silvery […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
David Bixler – Incognito Ergo Sum Sax man David Bixler has been playing for the best part of thirty years, be it solo or as a part of various different collaborations. For Incognito Ergo Sum, he has teamed back up with long time foils Fabio Rojas on […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
David Bixler – Incognito Ergo Sum Sax man David Bixler has been playing for the best part of thirty years, be it solo or as a part of various different collaborations. For Incognito Ergo Sum, he has teamed back up with long time foils Fabio Rojas on […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]