Tarek Atoui's Cycles in 11, currently on display at Bait Al Serkal is Sharjah, represents a decade of work, collaboration, and experimentation for the Lebanese sound artist. He talks to Cathy Wade about instruments, collaboration, and the crucial importance of real contact
From teenage awakenings at the hands of Björk and Stereolab via English folksong, a lockdown obsession with Dead Can Dance and a newfound love of Lili Boulanger, Patrick Wolf takes Luke Turner through the thirteen records that have defined his life
Thirty years on from the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Peter remembers a childhood where music was an escape from the strictures of Communism and punk gigs in churches were subversive acts and asks, what needs to happen to complete the process of reunification? Photo of Di Toten Hosen at a church gig by Mark Reeder