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Written conversations with working musicians — considered questions, answered in the artist’s own time, published in four languages.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 8 min read
Rebekka Salomea on a band that became a chosen family, why she kept her first vocal takes, what only a human voice can do, and accepting an award given to her by name.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 7 min read
The London-based Italian musician and producer on letting her voice forward, building places instead of songs, and why she would rather risk exposure than feel safe.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 11 min read
The Norwegian pianist on the mistake that became essential, the piece he had to find twice, and why he is uneasy inside the silence his work needs.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 12 min read
The composer on what a cue teaches you about ending, why he finds genre moribund, and the argument he picked with one of our questions. Plus Moving Images: twelve tracks recorded, edited and mixed in three days, 1,300 metres up.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 12 min read
Milo Fitzpatrick and Jordan Smart on writing for two instruments that cannot state a chord: how harmony gets spelled out in a line rather than stacked, and why a record meant to be epic became the sparse thing it is known for.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 27 min read
Ozzy Moysey on running a sixteen-piece orchestra out of Leeds: the arithmetic behind what he lets himself write, why he composes for people rather than instruments, and what a conductor's hand is really saying.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 18 min read
The Australian fingerstyle master — one man, one guitar, a whole band at once — on Chet Atkins and the CGP title, keeping the risk alive, a childhood on the road, getting sober, and turning seventy-one, in the week of his Vilnius concert.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 10 min read
The Japanese composer Yasuhiko Fukuzono, who records as aus, on making Everis from what a theft left behind: field recordings as the sediment of time, the koto's brief decay, and why the relationships between sounds matter more than any single one.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 13 min read
The British cellist and composer on whole worlds from a single instrument, the scrapes and breath a cleaner mix would erase, what recomposing Bach taught him, and why music may be one of the last spaces where listening survives.
Interview Reviews & Interviews 9 min read
The Grammy-nominated Argentine cellist on Solo, his first record for unaccompanied cello — the mirror of a single line, the tango in his blood, the album he once lost to theft, and the story he hopes comes to belong to the listener.