BURNT FRIEDMAN Against The Grain
Interview with Bernd Friedmann by themilkman
Operating since the mid-nineties under a variety of monikers and collaborations, German musician and label owner Bernd Friedmann has built up a totally unique catalogue. He has taken his ethic and vision into his label, Nonplace, which he founded ten years ago. To celebrate this first decade, Friedmann collected a bunch of previously unheard versions and mixes of tracks that have appeared on various albums over the years. We took the opportunity of this landmark anniversary to speak to the man about the last ten years of releases and talk about his many projects, including his much celebrated collaboration with form Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit.

AUTISTICI Sound Therapy
Interview with David Newman by themilkman
In the early 2000s, David Newman founded Audiobulb, a label which has since been a catalyst for contemporary electro-acoustic works and sound-based projects involving a wide range of artists. Two years ago, Newman released his debut album as Autistici, a project which he had started working on in 2000. We took the opportunity of the release of Detached Metal Voice – Early Works (Vol. 1), a collection of early material released on Audiobulb, to catch up with him and talk about both his music project and his label.

RENDEZ-VOUS AT ST GILES
Jóhann Jóhannsson/Greg Haines/Nils Frahm, St Giles In The Fields, London, 27/05/2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Three of today’s contemporary classical composers and musicians, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Greg Haines and Nils Frahm, joined forces for an evening of modern classical music at St Giles In The Fields.

STUNNING
Joanna Newsom/Roy Harper, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, 12/052010
Reviewed by themilkman
It was a Royal Festival Hall packed to the rafters that welcomed Joanna Newsom on the second of her two London dates this Wednesday evening, while her musical hero Roy Harper opened the evening.

CHRIS ABRAHAMS Play Scar
RM437 Room40 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Pianist with acclaimed Australian improv trio The Necks, Chris Abrahams has produced with his fourth solo record a magnificent piece of experimental music which is so vast and complex in scope that it never appears twice in the same light.

GREIE GUT FRAKTION Baustelle
MONIKA69 Monika Enterprise 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
This collaborative effort from Antye Greie and Gudrun Gut uses sounds sourced from construction sites to create the stark backdrop for this daring collection of abstract avant-pop music.

MACHINEFABRIEK Duotoon
MF012 Machinefabriek 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
The latest offering from Machinefabriek comes as this very limited one-track self release in which Rutger Zuydervelt vows to purify his sound and expose it in its barest form.

AUTISTICI Slow Temperature – Early Works Vol. 2/Autistici Reworked – Resonating Wires
AB030/AB032 Audiobulb Records 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
With two very different releases, one being the second instalment of early work and the other a collection of reworkings from one particular track from his last album, Autistici demonstrates how his sound has evolved and become such a malleable entity.

CHRISTOPHER WILLITS Tiger Flower Circle Sun
GI116 Ghostly International 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Returning to Ghostly International, four years on from his debut for the label, Christophere Willits’s latest offering is once again a kaleidoscopic collection of sun-drenched digitally enhanced guitar music.

PHONOPHANI Kreken
RCD2101 Rune Grammofon 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Six years on from his last record as Phonophani, Espen Sommer Eide is back with a fourth serving of expressionist electro-acoustic experimentations, and this time, he has turned his attention to Norwegian folklore.

TAYLOR DEUPREE Shoals
12K1060 12K 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
The sound sources of Taylor Deupree’s latest album were recorded during a residency at the University of York’s Music Research Centre, with the aim to come up with a piece of work which he couldn’t have created in his studio.

ON Something That Has Form And Something That Does Not
TYPE062 Type Recordings 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
One of the most original projects of the last ten years, On (Sylvain Chauveau and Steven Hess) record improvisations, then hand them out to a third party to make out of them whatever they want. For their third album, they have called upon the services of Fennesz.

ROOF LIGHT Kirkwood Gap / What Makes You So Special
HPLL052 / HPLL053Highpoint Lowlife 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
While Roof Light’s latest EP roughly continues on the elan of previous releases, his debut album showcases a much wider scope and incorporate much more atmospheric moments.

K-X-P K-X-P
STS182 Smalltown Supersound 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Using Krautrock as a platform from which they branch out in various directions, Finnish trio K-X-P have produced a truly magnificent record.

ORIOL Night And Day
ZIQ275 Planet Mu 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Oriol is not one to conceive electronic music as a cold and sterile medium, and his debut ablum is a sizzling melting pot of funky grooves, jazz fusion, electro disco and classic techno.

KHALIJA Khalija EP
FINT000 Force Intel 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Kicking off the catalogue entries of newly formed iimprint Force Intel, Los Angeles-based musician Khalija presents a particularly varied self-titled EP.

AUTECHRE Move Of Ten
WAP505 Warp Records 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Barely a few months after the release of their tenth album, Autechre return with this sister EP on which they consciously breaks down the melodic aspect of Oversteps and drag it down into the gutter.

OVAL Oh
THRILL1244 Thrill Jockey 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Almost ten years since the last Oval release comes this new EP from Markus Popp, in prelude to a double album, and presents a totally new sound and approach.

GAGARIN Adaptogen Remixes 1/Agaptogen Remixes 2
GEO015/GEO016 Geo Records 2010
Reviewed by themilkman
Following the release of Gagarin’s fourth album last year come two EPs of remixes with contributions from Youth, Robert Logan, Mark ‘Rothko’ Beazley, Moyza, Hybernation and Gagarin himself.

CALIKA Crooked / Slack Jaw
AB024 / HPLL043 Audiobulb Records 2009 / Highpoint Lowlife 2009
Reviewed by themilkman
Two years on from his last record, Calika refines his sound processing and delivers two quite radically different EPs on Audiobulb and Highpoint Lowlife.