After five years and 100 releases, the story of Eilean Records is just coming to an end already set from the start. Founder Mathias Van Eecloo talks about the label’s experience, one of the most interesting and peculiar in the fields of electro-acoustic and experimental music. Even if you’ve been already used to collaborations with…
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interview: LUCY ROLEFF
Lucy Roleff’s music is shaped by distance: physical, as she’s based in Melbourne, of musical style, for her connections to an ancient minimal folk, of themes, given her partial move from the intimate loneliness of her debut album “This Paradise” (2016), to the wider dimension of the new “Left Open In A Room“. Your songs…
interview: JULIA KENT
While known by a larger audience as “Antony And The Johnsons‘s cellist”, from over a decade Julia Kent keeps experimenting around the expressive potentialities of her instrument. In five solo records and many collaborations, she reached a challenging self-sufficiency made of loops and iterations of notes, often associated with images and dance performances. What’s been…
interview: SHARRON KRAUS
When did you start playing music and how did you get into the psych/dark-folk your music is usually associated with? I started playing music in folk sessions as a student in Oxford, England, and then I moved to Northern California after finishing my studies and started writing songs that then became my first album Beautiful…
interview: BRUNO SANFILIPPO
Having released albums for now over twenty years, Bruno Sanfilippo can be considered as a pioneer of the (re)discovery of music combining classical intruments and modern experimentation. Here’s a talk with him, on the occasion of the release of his latest album “Unity“. In recent times, many artists (re)discovered the sound of the piano, not…
interview: DAN MICHAELSON
It might be quite obvious starting from a question about your whole artistic experience and the journey that took you from Absentee to The Coastguards and to your “solo” releases… I formed Absentee after leaving art school. I’d been in bands before, but never as the songwriter. After spending a few months in Iceland figuring…
interview: ANGÈLE DAVID-GUILLOU
It’s been four years since our last talk with Angèle David-Guillou. It was around the time of “Kourouma”, her surprising first album under her own name; a mostly piano solo album that revealed a different profile of the artist formerly known as Piano Magic singer and Klima. In the meantime, Angèle developed her profile as…
interview: PIANO MAGIC
The release of “Closure” marks the end of the incredible artistic experience of Piano Magic, exactly 20 years after their first London show, back in 1997. No celebration time for Glen Johnson and his band, but just a very important page of a very personal journey into music, life and feelings. That’s why the following…
label spot: TWICE REMOVED
Pure passion for electro-acoustic explorations. Here’s Gavin Caitling, who recently ended up his labels Twice Removed and The Long Story Recording Company, talking about his experience on running an independent label and about the overall nowadays experimental music market. With the release of the latest Western Skies Motel album you declared your experience as label…
interview: KRISTIN MCCLEMENT
After a long and accurate work on it, last year Kristin McClement released her debut album “The Wild Grips“. The album impressed for its natural immediacy, revealing McClement’s strong and somehow unconventional personality in folk music. Here’s Kristin talking about the album, her new projects and her passionate way of living music. When did you started…
interview: THE EYE OF TIME
While releasing his latest album as The Eye Of Time, “ANTI“, here’s Marc Euvrie talking about the different experiences of his 20 years in music, that built his pure ambient-noise instinct. After playing in bands, you started The Eye Of Time as a solo project: why (and how) did you feel the need to work on something…
interview: SOUND AWAKENER
Nguyễn Hồng Nhung, from Vietnam, recently spread her music through the web (and not only) under the Sound Awakener alias. Here’s she talking about her creative start and about the different shapes of experimental music, as seen from her peculiar point of view. First of all, I can’t avoid asking you something about your country:…
interview: CAUGHT IN THE WAKE FOREVER
Both in understated songs and in electro-acoustic experiments, Fraser McGowan’s art is always very personal and full of sentiment. Here’s how he talks about his inspiration and the different shapes it takes in his music. You started making music in the duo Small Town Boredom, but what have been your musical wanderings and education before…
interview: COLLEEN
The sound universe enclosed in Cécile Schott’s records as Colleen is something quite peculiar in the music scene of the new century. Following the release of her fifth album, “Captain Of None”, the French artist talks about her personal and expressive evolution, from the original obsession for samples to the discovering of her own voice…
interview: THE DECLINING WINTER
In the decade after Hood‘s hibernation, Richard Adams kept developing the most “rural” and melancholic side of the band’s unique sound in different collaboration and projects. The Declining Winter is for sure his most personal one. A few weeks after the release of his latest album, the wonderful “Home For Lost Souls“, Adams talks about its working…
interview: NOTWIST
Just one year after their latest studio album “Close To The Glass”, The Notwist have recently published an instrumental “music library” album titled “The Messier Objects”. Here’s Marcus Acher talking about the latest release and giving his point of view on the independent musical scene of these days. You have now a quite long perspective on the German…
interview: CARLOS CIPA
Shortly after his second record, “All Your Life You Walk“, German composer Carlos Cipa talks about the development of his artistic profile, whose expression is now not only centered on piano minimalism. How and when did your start playing piano? I started playing the piano at the age of six, back then I was in first…
interview: ROBIN BACIOR
Her second album, “Water Dreams“, is one of the most fascinating records of the beginning of this year. It can be considered the record of maturity, the one of a new personal and artistic life, of Robin Bacior, talented young songwriter that recently moved from New York to Portland. Here’s her talking about her inward…
interview: ANOICE
Just a few days after the release of Anoice’s latest work,”Into The Shadows“, guitarist and composer Takahiro Kido, talks about how the band get started and the daily creative process involving the different projects around it, that make Anoice not only a band but an artistic collective way far from any “scene” or genre definition. How…
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