Moment of appreciation for Fred Lincoln Wray Jr. Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK. Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr. Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.

Incidentally, Fb just reminded me that 11 years ago today Alice released her debut album China Lane, which I had the pleasure of playing on and co-producing. Happy to be making music together still, albeit remotely on this occasion. alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...

Londoners: 2 things happening this week to which I've had the pleasure of contributing. 1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

How to engage with sites of trauma through sound? I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.

Happy to have played a small part in this new exhibition at the Barbican. Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.

Hands up: who knew Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor recorded together?

A couple of shots from Kasia Witek's performance The Peace Of Wild Things, which premièred at Laban Theatre, London, earlier this month. Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses) 📸 Rocio Chacon More info on my website.

Are Elastica having a moment, critically speaking? I keep seeing music writers mention how much they still like them. Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...

Kasia Witek's latest dance performance, which I've scored, premieres this week at Laban Theatre in London, commissioned by Trinity Laban Dance Collective with new music I created in collaboration with double bassist Caius Williams: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri... 📸 from yday's tech rehearsal

Thanks to @metalabel.bsky.social for shouting out my EP Viscera in the latest pick of new releases. magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...

2 hours of delicious drones, musique concrète, noise music and other experimental sounds, including a track from my new EP Viscera.

Today I'm delighted to release my original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera. Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.

My new EP drops on Friday and I'm celebrating with a listening party. RSVP 🔗 below. Viscera is my first film score 🎥 The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.

#NowPlaying Sunny Five – Candid Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!

#NowPlaying Easy to hear why this is one of the great Billy Hart's favourite Coltrane recordings. youtu.be/PTI6l9vax6Y?...

#NowPlaying Roberta Flack – First Take Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty. I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵

#NowPlaying Tonight's double bill: Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024) Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld. Hypnotic listening.

Excited to announce the release of my award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera, coming out on multidisciplinary label @zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.

#NowPlaying @juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.

#NowPlaying Charles Lloyd – Canto My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.

A few suggestions for a historical guide to drone music. Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?

#NowPlaying McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' @bluenoterecords.bsky.social Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.

The biggest video streaming platform in the world has produced an adaptation of arguably the greatest novel of the last century. And, contrary to my expectations, it's actually very well done. But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?

Some of this weekend's listening: @photay.bsky.social – Windswept Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary @matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse Stan Getz & Bill Evans

We can relate.

New addition to my playlist of 2024 favourites: divr – Is This Water @wejazz.bsky.social European take on the [email protected] piano trio, with delicious production by my friend Dan Nicholls subtly nudging the band's sound towards electronic aesthetics.

Anyone know what instrument the low sound at the beginning of this remarkable track is? DeJohnette is credited with melodica on some tracks but this sounds too low and too electronic to be that. Maybe some kind of synth? And what about the arpeggiated figure at 5:20? youtu.be/gcKM6ThFZ-o?...

When the world seems like a dark place, and making art feels at best trivial, if not futile, remember these words from my old composition teacher Frank Denyer.

#NowPlaying The Bug – Machine @relapserecords.bsky.social 🤘

#NowPlaying Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia @erasedtapes.com Once in a generation a group reinvents the sound of the piano trio. This was the last record that did that for me. Deep polyrhythmic grooves slowly evolve over 9 continuous tracks, like The Necks playing Steve Reich mixed by Aphex Twin.

Currently sending out promo copies of my next release: it's my debut film score, coming out on @zylaworks.bsky.social. If you're a journalist & would like an advance copy, please DM me.

#NowPlaying Bill Withers – Just as I Am The cover photo was taken on Withers' lunch break outside the factory he was working in at the time of recording, installing airplane toilets.

London is lucky to have people like @babayagashut.bsky.social putting on gigs like this. The stand-out show for me is probably The Bug vs Big Brave. But also: Jim Jarmusch! @zsennef.bsky.social! @robinrimbaud.bsky.social! Ellen Arkbro!

#NowPlaying Philip Jeck – rpm @touch33.net Beautifully curated posthumous release from the experimental composer, with guest contributions from @zsennef.bsky.social, @davidsylvian.bsky.social, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and @jahwobble.bsky.social among others.

As we gear up for Scene 2, here's a reminder of our previous season of multidisciplinary releases. Scene 1 centred around Inpouring, an EP by @alexrothmusic.bsky.social & @alicepurton.bsky.social created as the score to a dance performance by Kasia Witek. zylaworks.bandcamp.com/album/inpour...

🎤 Is this thing on? A playlist of my favourite 2024 releases feels as good a place as any from which to start here. If you've listened to more than 3 of these albums, we should probably be friends. open.spotify.com/playlist/3C3...