Source: The Quietus.

Despite there being much love for them in the underground, Sly & The Family Drone still seem a little overlooked. Okay, their jazz-tinged brand of abstract noise music isn’t everybody’s cup of intensity, yet where similar or even lesser-known bands have been meticulously documented, nobody’s even bothered to make them a Wikipedia page. Nor is there any ‘Biography’ entry for them on the AllMusic website, an otherwise “comprehensive” (or so it says) music resource. On Discogs, they’re summarised as a “Drum, tape and oscillator noise band from Basingstoke, UK”. Even that needs updating.

Source: The Quietus.

Hedvig Mollestad speaks to Irina Streis about her contemporary jazz symphony in nine parts, Maternity Beat, recorded with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Nick Storring
Occupation: Composer, cellist, curator, writer
Nationality: Canadian
Recent release: Nick Storring’s Music from ‘Wéi 成为’ is out via Orange Milk Records. He is also one of the collaborators on Prisma+, initiated and released by Machinefabriek and mastered by Jos Smolders.

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Håkon Kornstad
Nationality: Norwegian
Occupation: Saxophonist, opera singer, composer, improviser
Current release: Håkon Kornstad’s latest albums, For You Alone, and Out of the Loop, are out via Jazzland.

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Taylor Deupree
Nationality: American
Occupation: Producer, sound artist, composer, mastering engineer, label founder at 12k
Current release: Skal_Ghost, Taylor Deupree’s collaboration with Arovane aka Uwe Zahn is out November 4th 2022 via 12k.

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Melt Trio
Members: Peter Meyer (guitar, electronics), Bernhard Meyer (bass), Moritz Baumgärtner (drums, gongs, megaphon)
Interviewee: Peter Meyer
Nationality: German
Occupation: Composers, instrumentalists, improvisers
Current release: Melt Trio’s Consumer is out November 4th via Fun in the Church.

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Mattie Barbier
Nationality: American
Occupation: Trombone player, composer
Current Release: Mattie Barbier’s threads is out via sofa.

Source: 15 questions.

Name: Chad Fowler
Nationality: American
Occupation: Composer, improviser, saxophonist, label owner at Mahakala Music, programmer
Current release: Chad Fowler’s Alien Skin, featuring Steve Hirsh, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman and Zoh Amba, is out via Mahakala.