Let’s start with a bit of context for Dancing Family Records and how it came to be:  Tatiana: we’re siblings, we grew up between the US and France and moved to the UK to study (Brighton and London). In 2019 we were both in London, and Yohan came up with the idea of Dancing Family. […]

To listen—really listen—is to witness. But as Zahra Malkani suggested in To Beat To Burn, alistening session and workshop held at Rewire, it is also to destabilise. Rewire’s power came notonly from its musical and performative showcases, but from its rupturing of expectations, invitingus to feel the raw tension between silence and signal, voice and […]

“These artists are inventors of a private world, not in dialogue with art history but in conversation with their own visions and emotions.” — Sarah Lombardi, Director of Collection de l’Art Brut, on outsider artists. London, opposite Parliament. Alone by the Thames. Westminster Bridge slithers by the clock. Gothic towers pitch and bend, twisted expressions […]

by Ushara Dilrukshan This year’s London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) transformed St John’s Church in Hackney into a hub of experimental sound, culminating in a stunning finale at Wigmore Hall on January 17th with Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM DELTA XXIII. In this review we delve into two highlights: Russell Haswell’s provocative The Truth Is As Elusive As Ever […]

I met Reginald BoClair in May 2023, through the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project Justice, Policy, and Culture Think Tank at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. Reginald and I bonded over shared interests in political philosophy, Chicago house music, and seeking the abolition of the US prison industrial complex. In this piece, Reginald leverages his […]

Saturday 14th of December If ‘all art is political’, as we’ve grown accustomed to hearing, then what are the politics of bubblegum pop? Of the chirpy sincerity of early Beatles love songs, or of the hyperproduced hot-mess aesthetics of the instant-classic of the summer, Charli XCX’s BRAT? These are the questions that Nicholas Mroczkowski (Nicko) […]