A fantastic festival curated in very challenging circumstances, that felt all the more inclusive through their efforts to promote accessibility of the arts.
Author: Owen Sennitt
Yasmin Williams: Urban Driftwood
Yasmin Williams' new album is full of beautiful and meditative guitar instrumentals that evoke both pastoral serenity and inner city tension.
Black Country, New Road: For the First Time
High praise has been thrown at them with abandon but how does Black Country, New Road's debut album fare?
Divide & Dissolve: Gas Lit
Divide & Dissolve offer a refreshing and vital voice in the world of heavy music, using the behemoth weight of their sound to tackle conversations around white supremacy and colonialism.
Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo: Deep Fried Grandeur
Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo join forces for a special one-off performance...
A Snapshot of Beautiful Chaos: EP/64-57
There is little in this world that lasts forever. Thank goodness. Life's temporality is a blessing, offering fleeting moments of huge highs, heavy despair, and large quantities of mundanity. Live music helps remind us of this fact, jolting us out of our day to day existence through a one-off moment of pure, exhilarating sonic magic. … Continue reading A Snapshot of Beautiful Chaos: EP/64-57
Gwenifer Raymond: Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
Brighton-based Welsh guitarist, Gwenifer Raymond, boasts an incredible CV. Alongside a PhD in Astrophysics and a day job as a video game designer, Raymond is also an incredible guitarist, whose virtuosity is on full display with her second full-length release, Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain. Fans of the Tacoma school of steel guitar musings are … Continue reading Gwenifer Raymond: Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
2020: A Playlist
Feats your ears upon a playlist featuring some of Noise Compendium's favourite tracks of this past year... 2020 has certainly been a tumultuous one, but despite all the many challenges there have been so much fantastic new music this year. Hope you enjoy this selection. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2sggIrftVAIVyH4Q7vbMz3
Protest in the Digital Age: How artists and labels are supporting grassroots activism
How artists and labels are supporting grassroots activism through Bandcamp
James Elkington: Ever-Roving Eye
The new album from Chicago-based guitarist showcases his freewheeling fretboard talents that hark back to his British roots. James Elkington was born in England but headed across to Chicago in the 90s, where he embedded himself into the music scene to become an in-demand guitarist who has played with a wealth of well-known artists. He … Continue reading James Elkington: Ever-Roving Eye
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