On the Horizon: Serefe! Cüneyt Sepetçi & Orchestra Dolapdere.
Rather literally on the horizon this one, for Cüneyt Sepetçi & Orchestra Dolapdere hail from the azure realm of Istanbul – a city which itself seems to be composed of little other than a bedazzling...
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Fest Bests: Sónar 2013.
No sooner have we looked to northwestern Spain and to next month’s Primavera Sound than we’re back in Barcelona – at least musically speaking – as we turn to next month’s Sónar. The one and indeed only...
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Dots & Dashes’ Shows of 2013: XXV – VI.
Increasingly, we’ve placed as hefting an import as possible upon live music. Primarily in and around London, this year we’ve striven to incorporate better varied reviews and coat said writings in a...
View ArticleSlicked Black, Little Dragon.
Like a slick, feathered wing in an oil spill, it’s quite intriguing how easily Catalan synth whiz and enduring John Talabot accomplice Pional is able to dissolve Little Dragon’s Precious in the dense...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Aquesta Terra, Joana Serrat.
Although thousands make the peregrinació to Cataluña every summer for either one of Primavera Sound or Sónar, so many, ourselves included, come away with a scarcely enhanced comprehension of the musics...
View ArticleJuun, Sau Poler.
If overexposure has left you feeling a little immune to Jon Hopkins’ widely celebrated latest full-length effort, then you could do far worse than to turn to Barça prodigy Sau Poler who, having...
View ArticleSau Poler, For NYC.
Badalona’s Sau Poler (né Pau Soler) has repeatedly impressed with his instantly distinctive brand of indubitably sun-dappled, if still dark-as-Razzmatazz workouts; and For NYC, from his forthcoming...
View ArticleSau Poler, Mental Invasion.
2014 has proven an apparently, pretty inspiriting year for Badalona, Catalunya beatsmith Sau Poler; and so to top it all off with his similarly inspiring Paradoxes of Progress EP seems as apt a way as...
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Fest Bests: Sónar 2015.
While many more inchoate events these days opt for various, invariably derivative novelty themes year on year, Barcelona’s Sónar benefits not only from being set in the seemingly permanently...
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Review: Sónar 2015.
“Barcelona’s a city everybody comes to to fuck, and get fucked up” my wily host for a first of five nights proudly informs me, having traded Detroit for the Catalan capital several years ago. And with...
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