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March 20, 2021

Promises: The Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & LSO Album

Sam Shepard, who works under the pseudonym of Floating Points, is releasing a new hybrid electronic-jazz album with saxophone legend Pharaoh Sanders on March 28 titled Promises. Put together under David Byrne’s Luaka Bop record label, the LP is a continuous piece of music in nine parts and is credited as a composition for saxophone, strings, keyboards and electronics.

March 27, 2021

Soundtrack: The Shining – Stanley Kubrick

Certain movies in cinematic history stand as cultural sentinels, containing scenes which telegraph love, hope, humour, sadness… or unbridled horror and incomprehensible primordial fear as Stanley Kubrick’s film, The Shining, did upon release in the spring of 1980. The fact this dance macabre is orchestrated to one of the creepiest and haunting – yet temporally ambiguous – soundtracks in modern film history only bolsters its place in the pantheon of greatest movies of all time.

December 26, 2021

Heavy Rotation: Technique – New Order

The sonic hedonism achieved in New Order’s Technique is still felt in music today. Released in January, 1989 it heralded an end to the indulgent excesses of the ‘80s with a wink, embracing the unknown pleasures to come with the birth of rave culture.