Freq
@freqzine.bsky.social
A magazine about music, film and more online since 1998 at https://www.freq.org.uk
Where once there was music, now let there be noise.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@Freq
Where once there was music, now let there be noise.
Also at https://mastodon.social/@Freq
@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social Leviathan Whispers freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-... This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, #musicreview #sax #drone #psychedelia Out via @btlabel.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social Leviathan Whispers freq.org.uk/reviews/tim-... This dark and contemplative work, inspired by the blazing spike of William Blake's Albion, is a haunting torchlit journey into some imagined underworld, #musicreview #sax #drone #psychedelia Out via @btlabel.bsky.social
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Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Liv Andrea Hauge Trio – Døgnville https://freq.org.uk/reviews/liv-andrea-hauge-trio-dognville/ This curious mix of circumstances gives the album a sense of sense of statelessness; a sense that things could go in any direction, Liv's playful and ever-elegant […]
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BODY 115 – 18 NOVEMBER, 2025
A live-streamed performance from THIS PAGE… ‘A poetic masterpiece’ ★★★★★‘One hour of literary and poetic brilliance’ ★★★★ ‘Utterly captivating’ ★★★★ On the 18th November 1987 …
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October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Keiji Haino and Reinhold Friedl – Truly, Slightly, Overflowing, Whereabout Of Good Will https://freq.org.uk/reviews/keiji-haino-and-reinhold-friedl-truly-slightly-overflowing-whereabout-of-good-will/ a darkly foreboding and quite a tough listen, but it’s […]
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A passionate @freqzine.bsky.social take from @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social on the latest Lush archival release, worth some of your weekend reading time.
November 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A passionate @freqzine.bsky.social take from @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social on the latest Lush archival release, worth some of your weekend reading time.
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I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I Hold The Lion’s Paw – Potentially Interesting Jazz Music https://freq.org.uk/reviews/i-hold-the-lions-paw-potentially-interesting-jazz-music/ By some miracle the entire thing was generated from a single seven-hour session; the basic quartet of bass, drums […]
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Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hi Res Heart – Move Fast And Mend Things https://freq.org.uk/reviews/hi-res-heart-move-fast-and-mend-things/ Where the previous album compiled four compositions from each of the three players, here a composition each from Martin, Charlotte and Martin rub […]
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@stoatie.bsky.social : Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. #Swans evolve to such a degree that .. one of their songs is infinitely more likely to develop sentience than any fucking LLM. t.ly/Pr3qt pix: @davepettit.bsky.social
#livemusic #gigreview
#livemusic #gigreview
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@stoatie.bsky.social : Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. #Swans evolve to such a degree that .. one of their songs is infinitely more likely to develop sentience than any fucking LLM. t.ly/Pr3qt pix: @davepettit.bsky.social
#livemusic #gigreview
#livemusic #gigreview
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Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Immersion – WTF? After the best part of fift https://freq.org.uk/reviews/immersion-wtf/ After the best part of fifty years in the game for Colin Newman and over forty for Malka Spigel, you could be forgiven for thinking that they had run out of things to say […]
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Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Lush – Gala still feels very summery to me, the staring at the sun splintering of "Sweetness And Light" -- that over driven roar that just erupts, released on a daisy-chain sparkle, something the sun-kissed cursives of "Sunbathing" heightens, scuttered in […]
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Should probably put the link in too... freq.org.uk/reviews/neph...
Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum)
When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was go to see Fields Of ...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Should probably put the link in too... freq.org.uk/reviews/neph...
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Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum) When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Fields Of The Nephilim / Claytown Troupe / Heathen Apostles (live at The Forum) When I first moved to London in 1990 at the tender age of eighteen, I was in part drawn by the lure of a city offering plenty of live music. So of course the first thing I did was […]
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[Original post on mastodon.social]
@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours... sounds are rich, roll into each other with stretchy squishability I totally warm to. #avantgarde #livemusic #gigreview
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Phew / Freddy Murphy (live at the Jam Jar)
When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours. This bamboo beat is introduced, whipped in rhythmic rat tails and trapped moth zi...
freq.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social When Phew starts it’s a slow hypnosis of slippery sounds, her voice recoiling a merry-go-round full of twisty vapours... sounds are rich, roll into each other with stretchy squishability I totally warm to. #avantgarde #livemusic #gigreview
freq.org.uk/reviews/phew...
freq.org.uk/reviews/phew...
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Lovers – Lettres d’Amour Linda Oláh and Giani Caserotto have been in various separate bands for the best part of twenty years, with Linda also spending time with the French Orchestre National de #jazz. Having known one another for some time, this is their […]
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November 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Lovers – Lettres d’Amour Linda Oláh and Giani Caserotto have been in various separate bands for the best part of twenty years, with Linda also spending time with the French Orchestre National de #jazz. Having known one another for some time, this is their […]
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Kreidler – Early Recordings 1994-95 Some tracks from the cassette release Riva and their first untitled vinyl release have been compiled to show how quickly the basic idea of Kreidler fell into place. Some of the assembled tracks are tiny snippets that seem […]
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November 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Kreidler – Early Recordings 1994-95 Some tracks from the cassette release Riva and their first untitled vinyl release have been compiled to show how quickly the basic idea of Kreidler fell into place. Some of the assembled tracks are tiny snippets that seem […]
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NEW FLC. More essential journeys through weird worlds from the absolute master of it.
I’m really excited to share my new album ‘Apeiron Anxiety’ with you - available from @castlesinspace.bsky.social Bandcamp & the best record stores ;)
(Also,happy cosmic birthday to you, dad. I owe you everything & miss you every day x)
fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com/album/apeiro...
(Also,happy cosmic birthday to you, dad. I owe you everything & miss you every day x)
fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com/album/apeiro...
Apeiron Anxiety, by Field Lines Cartographer
5 track album
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November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
NEW FLC. More essential journeys through weird worlds from the absolute master of it.
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Nocturnal Emissions / Nigel Ayers – Reports Of Debris What an adventure this is. All The Horned Animals have taken a massive bite out of the impossible task of documenting Nigel Ayers’ (the man behind Nocturnal Emissions' enduring existence) ever-evolving […]
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November 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Nocturnal Emissions / Nigel Ayers – Reports Of Debris What an adventure this is. All The Horned Animals have taken a massive bite out of the impossible task of documenting Nigel Ayers’ (the man behind Nocturnal Emissions' enduring existence) ever-evolving […]
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The second batch of Blue Tapes subscription tapes are IN THIS POST BOX and will be arriving in the homes of our subscribers shortly.
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The second batch of Blue Tapes subscription tapes are IN THIS POST BOX and will be arriving in the homes of our subscribers shortly.
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"Hello? Hollywood?! Yes I'll hold..."
What's this? Giallo disco from @maiovvi.bsky.social on Spun Out of Control? Fuck yes! spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/deathg...
DEATHGAMES, by ANTONI MAIOVVI
10 track album
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November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Hello? Hollywood?! Yes I'll hold..."
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EarthBall kick off their European tour today in Amsterdam, taking in Le Guess Who, Metz, Strasbourg, Geneva, Lyon, Torino, Bescia, Lausanne and Paris!
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 AM
EarthBall kick off their European tour today in Amsterdam, taking in Le Guess Who, Metz, Strasbourg, Geneva, Lyon, Torino, Bescia, Lausanne and Paris!
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Old cyanotypes revisited 02
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Old cyanotypes revisited 02
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Nice to see @alisoncotton.bsky.social track 'We Were Smuggling People's Lives' included in Kali Malone & Drew McDowall's mix for NTS:
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KALI MALONE & Drew McDowall 3rd November 2025
Playing Folk, Ambient, Minimalism, Drone. Kali Malone & Drew McDowall share a two-hour mix for NTS in celebration of their new album Magnetism, out November 7 on Ideologic Organ. The selection drifts ...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Nice to see @alisoncotton.bsky.social track 'We Were Smuggling People's Lives' included in Kali Malone & Drew McDowall's mix for NTS:
www.nts.live/shows/kali-m...
www.nts.live/shows/kali-m...
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"Sculptor and sound artist Michael Fairfax plays instruments hewn from the woods around his home in the Brendon Hills, Somerset. You can hear him playing these beautiful, feral harps on my new album Leviathan Whispers"
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November 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"Sculptor and sound artist Michael Fairfax plays instruments hewn from the woods around his home in the Brendon Hills, Somerset. You can hear him playing these beautiful, feral harps on my new album Leviathan Whispers"
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/leviat...
buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/leviat...
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There’s not that many 80s bands I could still be arsed to see again now but The Butthole Surfers always seemed weirdly ageless, as if they’d crawled out of some thermal duct like a Cthulhu cult, or maybe Cthulhu himself.
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
There’s not that many 80s bands I could still be arsed to see again now but The Butthole Surfers always seemed weirdly ageless, as if they’d crawled out of some thermal duct like a Cthulhu cult, or maybe Cthulhu himself.