Musings from the MEANS editor…
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Networked lives: navigating interstitial online spaces in times of disquiet
Searching for the horizon in a network of loss, decay and fragments I. The horizon. The farthest point visible in the physical world. When we seek a place beyond this point, our aim should… Read more
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interview : Solar Eyes
For the first in our ongoing series of artist interviews, we catch up with Solar Eyes, a Birmingham-based duo comprised of Sebastian Maynard Francis and Glenn Smyth. Signed to Fierce Panda Records, their music has… Read more
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Alan Ward – Bucket
Woozy, tripped-out hip-hip from Alan Ward, sent to us for the second edition of the MEANS compilation. This is the sort of thing I rarely listen to, but, serves a good reminder that people… Read more
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Temporal Waves : S/T
Temporal Waves is the alias of Montreal-based musician Shawn Mativetsky, who has built his reputation as a master of Indian classical music and leading advocate of the tabla, Pandit Ram Sahai his muse. But being a… Read more
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Phil Durrant – Pislyamova
MEANS is proud to showcase Blue and Yellow through Black and Gray, a joint creation of the musicians of the international Ambient and Experimental Music Community and 12 modern Ukrainian poets who recite their… Read more
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LONG READ: RYEFIELD SOCIETY / JAMES A. MCDERMID : S’ACCOMMODER | PERDIDO
Witnessing a change in cultural consumption: RyefieldSociety and James A. McDermid’s split release explores the bittersweet contradictions of local place and tourist space. ‘S’accommoder | Perdido’ is a wonderfully poignant and reflective split release by Ryefield Society – a… Read more
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Guy Richardson – Dreaming of You Again (feat. Maria Chekariova)
MEANS is proud to showcase Blue and Yellow through Black and Gray, a joint creation of the musicians of the international Ambient and Experimental Music Community and 12 modern Ukrainian poets who recite their… Read more
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Mark Daelmans-Sikkel & Paulien Dirkzwager : This Passionate Pleasure (feat. Tetiana Osipenko)
MEANS is proud to showcase Blue and Yellow through Black and Gray, a joint creation of the musicians of the international Ambient and Experimental Music Community and 12 modern Ukrainian poets who recite their… Read more
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Dispatches from the Bamboo Way
In the autumn of 2021, in the haze of a world reeling from the shock of a global pandemic, jazz faculty members at Leeds Conservatoire, myself amongst them, were offered a small bursary towards… Read more
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