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25 Oct 2021

A SHORT PERSONAL HISTORY OF TAKUROKU - Jennifer Lucy Allen

Rum Music and radio selector Jennifer Lucy Allen reflects on 18 months or so of doing jigsaws, drinking cocktails and listening to as many TakuRoku releases as time would allow. 

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25 Oct 2021

Them’s the (emergency) brakes - David Grubbs

Musician and writer David Grubbs responds to Takuroku and AMPLIFY 2020 - two quarantine labels which helped to reconfigure his listening habits. 

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1 Jun 2021

XT - Deorlaf X reading room

XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) share music, texts & images which influenced the sound of their new duo LP on OTOROKU - Deorlaf X

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13 Mar 2020

Steve Noble in Conversation with Joe McPhee

Old friends Steve Noble and Joe McPhee sit down to chat before performing as Decoy as part of Joe's residency in 2019. 

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18 Nov 2019

The Trouble With Jazz History - Pat Thomas

Pianist Pat Thomas finds vital links between the musical traditions of muslim West Africa and the Jazz and Blues traditions of Afro-Americans, so far ignored by many Jazz historians. 

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6 Jun 2019

Luke Fowler in Conversation with Leon Redler

Luke Fowler chats to Dr Leon Redler - a practitioner who worked alongside R.D Laing at Kingsley Hall in London's East End - as part of Dee Sakar's 'R.D. Laing at 50' event.

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26 Apr 2019

Annea Lockwood in conversation with Nate Wooley

Jen Allan joins composer Annea Lockwood and trumpeter Nate Wooley to chat about the process of composing Becoming Air and the mutual connections found in their individual practices during their collaboration. 

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13 Mar 2019

Brunhild Ferrari in conversation with David Grubbs

Composer Brunhild Ferrari talks about her own work, and the work of her late husband Luc Ferrari with writer, musician and teacher David Grubbs. 

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13 Sep 2018

Carl Stone in conversation with Vicki Bennett

Twenty years on from being a guest on his Berkley radio show, Vicki Bennett chats to Carl Stone about the impact that dramatic shifts in technology has had on their music making today. 

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31 Aug 2018

Evan Parker and Seymour Wright play Steve Lacy

On the day after soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's birthday Evan Parker and Seymour Wright played and discussed his music on saxophones and discs, joined by very special and surprise guest Frederic Rzewski.

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12 Jul 2018

Nina Power and Seth Kim-Cohen in Conversation

Nina Power and Seth Kim-Cohen sit down to discuss the under-heralded work of conceptual artist Christine Kozlov and hash out issues in cultural politics then and now. 

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13 Jun 2018

Anthony Braxton in Conversation with Alexander Hawkins

Longtime student and performer of Anthony Braxton's work, Alexander Hawkins initiaties a forty minute insight into the logic behind ZIM music. 

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24 Nov 2017

Art Ensemble in Conversation with Kevin Le Gendre

Read or listen to the whole conversation between Kevin Le Genre and the Art Ensemble of Chicago as they discuss making jingles for the juice company 'Odwalla', growing up in Chicago and taking control of their own music. 

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26 Jun 2017

Laura Cannell - Modern Ritual

Listen to a live set from HOOFUS and a 30 minute snare drum roll from Charles Hayward - performed as part of Laura Cannell's Modern Ritual series.

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24 Nov 2016

Blood Music in the Project Space

Simon Pomery spent seven chilly days in the Project Space developing his on-going audio/visual investigation into Performance Writing - SPEED READING. He managed to stay warm by drumming - so much so that he's made a new mixtape which you can stream here. Thanks Pom. 

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25 Oct 2016

Senyawa in conversation with Clive Bell

Jogjakarta’s Senyawa go deep on previous projects, traditional Indonesian music, man vs nature and how to go into a trance.