Tag: Nils Frahm

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For the first couple of tracks ganavya's new album Nilam seems to owe as much to trip hop as Indian classical raga, which is to say that it lands somewhere between early solo Björk on the stunning Debut and Post and the lustrous, moonlit works of Arooj Aftab, with the opener 'Land' redolent of 'Venus as a Boy' -...

This week the multi-instrumentalist JJJJJerome Ellis frames speech dysfluency through personal reflections and watery etymologies, river running from the works of the sixteenth-century French poet Guillaume Bouchet and eighteenth-century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano to contemporary thinkers like Toni Morrison and Derek Walcott. Bill Charlap and the rhythm section of Peter and Kenny Washington give a modern swing to a standard...

From the sacred to the mundane, field recordings take centre stage this week. Against backdrops of rustling nature or sweet domesticity, Claire Rousay and More Eaze linger lightly over autotuned vocals and diaphanous guitar, while the Glasgow artist and Hot Gem honcho Clair uses found sounds, keys, and chimes to ring out an impish sort of minimalism. Like the lapping...