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'Breathing Instruments' features breath-inspired music from Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore and more
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has curated a new compilation called Breathing Instruments.
The compilation, which will be released via Smith’s own touchtheplants label, features new songs from Emily A. Sprague, Julianna Barwick, Mary Lattimore, and more. Each artist was given the guidance to create a song that "accentuate[s] the ways in which instruments sound like they are breathing."
touchtheplants will release Breathing Instruments on August 14, 2020.
Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and Crammed Discs talks to Sean Kitching about the consistent thread running through the different chapters of his band, the progress of their forthcoming fourth album, Rock In Opposition and cultural cross-pollination
Compiling an end of year ‘top ten’ of music from the more undefinable end of the sonic spectrum always proves challenging for the Rum Music Library. But, being more accustomed to stubbornly standing with difficulty than rolling over into the recovery position of enjoyment, Russell Cuzner has risen to the challenge to highlight how 2016 has provided the widest range yet of audacious audio experiences from music’s borderlands
The nine-piece folk ensemble Shovel Dance Collective speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their bold new album exploring the extremes of humanity’s relationship with water, and why progression and tradition need not be opposites
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