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Art and Propaganda: Crispin Glover Interviewed
Although best known as a masterful character actor, Crispin Hellion Glover has been using his Hollywood paychecks to fund a series of fiercely independent, and sometimes controversial surrealist films. Simon Jablonski discusses typecasting, Buñuel and Hollywood taboos
A Quietus Interview
Transcendental Mediation: An Interview With The Orb
With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Black Sky Thinking
An Ungraspable Intelligence: Bird Song In The Time Of Collapse
Referencing two new albums, the compilation Synthetic Bird Music and Kate Carr's A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds, plus Daphne du Maurier's avian horror and one of England's oldest documented songs, Summer Is Icumen In, Daryl Worthington asks how the rich interlinked history of bird song and human music has changed over the centuries and what it now means in a time of climate crisis
A Quietus Interview
Before Language There Was Sound: Nene H Interviewed
Following a family tragedy, Berlin-based producer Nene H combined modular synthesis with the instruments of her native Turkey to produce her debut album, a powerful sonic document of healing. She talks to Adam Quarshie about balancing conflicting identities and the confines of classical music
