Tag: Sholto Dobie

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Where other artists who have embraced the windy strains and shifting timbres of the pipe organ tend to go in for liturgical refrains, celebrations of the mundane or juxtapositions of the two - like Charlemagne Palestine whose swirling harmonies and rippling overtones for carillon and pipe organ from Strumming Music and Schlingen-Blängen through Godbear and his recent outing on...

Another artist whose practise revolves around the chutes and stops of hand-made organs and other makeshift wind instruments, the Edinburgh-born and Vilnius-based composer Sholto Dobie has been a fixture on the experimental margins over the past decade, from an ethnographic preservation of khroniky alongside Lucia Nimcová across a series of visits to Rusyn villages in the Carpathian mountains to...

Fashioned from vocal motifs first uttered in the cool caves of Java, recorded fifty kilometres north of Warsaw in the Modlin Fortress at the confluence of two rivers, on Lamunan the experimental artist Antonina Nowacka pulls nymphic choral music out of the dank and echoing surrounds. From Ho Chi Minh City, the restless creativity of Rắn Cạp Đuôi comes...