“Music so difficult you’ll scratch your head and think ‘was that any good?’.” Richard Youngs explores some challenging / difficult / beautiful music. (delete as appropriate)
This week The Rope Factory explores the ‘The Sorrow of Derdui’ by Mac Talla Nan Creag – who said second albums were difficult? – and further takes in some German nu-disco, Sudanese rhythms and Greek paradise music.
In anticipation of Still House Plants forthcoming ‘Fast Edit’ LP on Bison, this weeks High Jinks episode includes a couple of tracks from their debut self titled release from 2016. Also featured is a track from Alexia Avina’s excellent Unearth, out on Lost Map in October.
Richard Youngs returns with an exploration of fidelity and it’s not all Hi-Fi! Features The Fall, Iggy and Stooges, Taming Power, Neil Campbell and the Blue Nile.
After a short break Neil Dargie returns with The Rope Factory for more musical map making.
This week, we take a look at 70’s versus modern day free jazz, Ivor Cutler makes a welcome and reassuring appearance and we delve deeper into the Latino scene of 1970’s New York City.