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Music for Yoga

New year, and you started yoga again, right? You prepared yourself, you wanted to share the beauty of that reparative exercise. Maybe it worked at first, but soon you recognised that uniform, nonsensical new-age meanderings in the background. And you don’t have a say over that schmaltzy music intended to complement your holistic experience.  Flutes, a stultified tanpura or a sitar, lazy tabla beats, that fake eastern feel in the predictable background muzak to your practice. You know the story, […]

todayJanuary 10, 2026 36

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Progressive Rock

Space Rock

Space rock’s grammar—elongated forms, drones, tape loops, and immersive stagecraft—grew directly out of mid‑to‑late 1960s psychedelia. At its core were extended, trance-inducing structures, synthesizer textures and sci‑fi mythmaking; depending on the band, it felt either like a utopian drift or a gritty engine-room throb. As the counterculture pushed music toward altered perception, bands folded liquid light shows, non‑Western modalities, and studio trickery into rock, setting up the hypnotic textures that space rock would formalize in the early 1970s. Pink Floyd […]

todayJanuary 2, 2026 45 1

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Avant-Garde

The sound-house that women built

They began in the margins, and also at the centre of things. In wartime studios where silence was a risk and continuity a duty, young women learned to ride the dials like instruments: Daphne Oram shadowing concerts with contingency recordings, testing microphones, and, after hours, coaxing tone generators and tape into a language the BBC didn't yet recognize as music. Either she was a studio engineer with a composer's conscience or a composer with an engineer's appetite; both fit. In […]

todayNovember 16, 2025 50

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Watching Kahil El’Zabar at 229 and thinking of the older musicians: creative music in expansion.

Seniority and the strange acceleration of creativity  There's a quiet revolution happening in plain sight: musicians who once embodied youthful rupture now carry their art deeper into age, as a new perspective on creativity. The surface story—legends touring stadiums—is easy to tell. The more interesting truth is internal: as the body slows, the internal listening ear gains momentum; experience pares away the unneeded flourish. What we call "seniority" is not only longevity or the calendar's count; it's the psychic sediment […]

todayNovember 13, 2025 60

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Mary Halvorson – Amaryllis Sextet live in Amsterdam at the BIMHUIS, 7 November 2025

Fasiel and Broz were there from Sicily. Alix and her friend Rocco were fresh from his band's gig in Rotterdam. Costa and I came from London. We arrived in Amsterdam from different European countries, and Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis Sextet was the reason for this end of year reunion trip. My expectations were high. I bought tickets back in June, assuming she wouldn't play London this autumn. I was wrong: she appeared at the Vortex at the end of September with […]

todayNovember 9, 2025 90

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Endless Love with RadioPeng

RadioPeng doesn't usually dip into the glossy waters of mainstream pop. Our orbit tends to favor the cosmic, the obscure, the droning, the free-jazz freakouts and the ambient abysses. But every so often, a song comes along so unabashedly human-so universal in its naked sincerity-that it breaks through the firewall. Enter Endless Love (1981): Lionel Richie and Diana Ross's gloriously over-the-top hymn to devotion, a duet so pure it could melt the coldest experimentalist's heart. When that tender piano intro […]

todayOctober 27, 2025 56 1 3

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Gianni Papa Listens: Tangerine Dream’s Zeit and the Patience of the Cosmos

Tangerine Dream’s Zeit is a slow, dark, and patient record. It came out in 1972. It is four long pieces. The mood is heavy, quiet, and cosmic. There are almost no rhythms. There are long drones, soft waves, and deep tones. It asks you to listen closely. It rewards you if you do. What listeners say Many fans call Zeit a tough album. They also call it unique and powerful. People often say it is not “space rock” in the […]

todayOctober 26, 2025 54

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Avant-Garde

Genesis: The Shape-Shifting Beasts of British Art Rock

Genesis is what happens when a group of posh schoolboys accidentally invent three different genres and then spend the next twenty years trying to outrun themselves. Formed in the late 1960s at Charterhouse School, they started as mild-mannered psychedelic folkies and ended as global pop deities with laser lights, gated drums, and Armani blazers. Along the way, they became a sort of evolutionary chart for British rock itself, one band mutating through every available phase of ambition, excess, and self-reinvention. […]

todayOctober 23, 2025 51

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