Articles by Richard Moule

Happy-go-unlucky

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

It probably happens far too often - an artist who somehow manages to write great music but consistently falls short of their audience poten...

AMM/Merzbow

For Ute / Tower of Ghost

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

The fourth instalment in Fat Cat's split twelve-inch series finds some sonic explorers who are highly practised at creating evocative gestu...

CPI

Destroyed Ideas

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

You wouldn't normally associate our stodgy nation's capital as a hotbed for noise. Maybe, it's the deadening bureaucracy that causes these...

Walter Horn/Gary Kendig/Hugh Dickey

Screwdriver!

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

Walter Horn's swirling Sun Ra-like other worldly synth ripples cushion Hugh Dickey's strangled guitar shards on the opener, "Chainsaw at So...

Susie Ibarra/Denis Charles

Drum Talk

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

Drum Talk is a series of spellbinding percussive conversations and dialogues between two rhythmic magicians. Charles, who made his name bac...

Immense

Spontaneous Combustion/E Flat Sonic Boom/Perhaps You Should Talk

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

This four-piece Bristol outfit doesn't quite live up to their name but they come awfully close. This three-track debut twelve-inch will fin...

Italian Instabile Orchestra

Italian Instabile Festival: Pisa Teatro Verdi, December 1997

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

Held in the shadow of the leaning tower of Pisa, the Instabile Festival was a three-day event dedicated solely to the works of the Italian...

Stefano Maltese Open Sound Ensemble

Living Alive

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 1999

Sicilian composer/reed player Maltese leads an international sextet of improvisers that emphasises the word open, in more ways than one. A...