For his latest album Konoyo, due for release on 28th September on American independent label Kranky, sound artist Tim Hecker has collaborated with members of the Tokyo Gakuso ensemble, a group of gagaku musicians founded in 1978. Gagaku, i.e. the traditional classical music of Japan performed for centuries at the...
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View Uji bio here Uji (Luis Maurette) is a nomadic electronic producer and multi-instrumentalist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised throughout Latin America. Half of the pioneering duo Lulacruza since its inception in 2005, with whom he has released 5 albums, a feature film and multiple world tours. His music is dance...
![Preview: William Basinski with Fennesz by Candlelight @ Union Chapel [London, Thursday 31st May 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/krankbrother-335x188.jpg)
Krankbrother returns to the Union Chapel in Islington on Thursday 31st May, this time bringing experimental ambient musicians William Basinski and Fennesz for a special performance by candlelight. American avant-garde musician William Basinski has been composing and playing since the ’80s and he is best known for his experimentations with...
![Album Review: GoGo Penguin – A Humdrum Star [Blue Note Records; February 2018]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/gogo-penguin__1517483127_128.65.101.130-335x335.jpg)
GoGo Penguin is one of those bands that are impossible to define within a genre or a scene. Yet, since their debut in the UK scene with their first album Fanfares, they have come out with their very own signature sound: hearts rooted in jazz and classical training exploring the...
Since the reissue of her spectacular 1982 solo album Through The Looking Glass, Japanese composer and percussionist Midori Takada has been experiencing a new wave of success which has brought her touring the world again. After two sold-out gigs in London last year, Takada returns to the British capital on...
Zach Saginaw, better known by his middle name Shigeto, is a producer, drummer, label founder, and DJ from Michigan. Having been on the scene for almost ten years, his music blends electronic with hip-hop, ambient with jazz, and drums with sweet melodies. In the past year, Shigeto has launched a...
GoGo Penguin‘s Man Made Object – released on the exalted Blue Note in 2016 – showed merely a peek towards the progressive direction of the trio. The band’s new album, A Humdrum Star serves as a hat tip towards Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, highlighting a phrase which demonstrates just...
Unsound is one of the best experimental music festivals in the world — and the reason why hundreds of music enthusiasts have been flocking to Poland every autumn for the last fifteen years. For one night only, detached from its usual home of Krakow, Unsound took up residence at the Barbican...
The Russian-born electronic musician and all-around artist and experimentalist Dasha Rush is bringing her widely acclaimed audiovisual project Antarctic Takt to the UK for the first time. Premiered at Berlin Atonal festival back in 2014, Antarctic Takt is an audio/video performance created in collaboration with visual artist Stanislav Glaszov, that sends the...
![Preview: Different Trains 1947 @ Barbican Centre [London, 1st October, 2017]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dt47-335x188.jpg)
Different Trains 1947 is the closing performance of the Transcender Festival, happening at the Barbican Centre from September 28th to October 1st, bringing “ecstatic and devotional music from around the world”. Taking inspiration from Steve Reich’s Different Trains, an audiovisual piece documenting train journeys in the US and Europe at...
