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Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Chris Watson
Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire
Strange World Of...
A Sense For Contrast: The Strange World Of Russell Haswell
Multi-disciplinary artist and renowned noise musician Russell Haswell has just released an excellent beat-driven record on Diagonal. So we dispatched the Quietus' own Russell to meet him to discuss his career to date, from the YBAs and ATP to sushi and Whitney Houston
Things I Have Learned
Chris Watson On Recording The Music Of The Natural World
In Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson used tape loops and field recordings as a pioneer of industrial music. Now, he is a sound recordist for BBC nature programmes who also works on installations, films and his own albums. He speaks to Luke Turner about trying to capture the sound of the world in a very noisy modern age
A Quietus Interview
Beyond Blue: Simon Fisher Turner Interviewed
Last year, The Quietus met up with Simon Fisher Turner to discuss his work with Derek Jarman, and as much of his career in music and film as we could fit into a two-hour lunch date. In the week that he helps celebrate Sprawl's 15th birthday, The Quietus presents the second half of this extended interview
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Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music
John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car
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As Wide As The Universe: Dead Can Dance Interviewed
We were offered a very brief phone conversation with Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance recently. There was nothing for it but to activate our many teeted, lizard agent from Interzone, Jonny Mugwump, whose feverish brain and forked tongue work in double time...
A Quietus Interview
Organised Chaos: Swell Maps Interviewed
With a flurry of recent activity, including reissues and the promise of a book, Duncan Seaman talks to Jowe Head, Biggles Books and Phones Sportsman, as well as Geoff Travis of Rough Trade about the cult DIY band. Home page band portrait by Caroline Kraabel
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Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed
Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
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Beautiful Noise: Rhys Chatham Interviewed
In this lost interview from 2009, Rhys Chatham talks to David Moats about doom metal, gentrification and drum & bass as a collaboration between him and Charlemagne Palestine comes to St. John's Church in Hackney on Thursday as part of William Basinski and Art Assembly's Arcadia series
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Touching Base With France’s Former First Lady: Carla Bruni Interviewed
Jeremy Allen interviews Carla Bruni in Paris about her new album French Touch, but politics is strictly interdict. “I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don’t care, do you understand?”
