Modern Feelings

Modern Feelings is an experimental group led by the Finnish electronic musician Anton Nikkilä. It combines improvised noise-rock/free jazz with a conceptual approach to electronic music. Helsinki's Sähkö Recordings released the debut album by Modern Feelings in late 2014.

The project's shifting lineup has in the past included such luminaries of Finnish underground music as Pekka Airaksinen and Samuli Tanner. The Moscow musicians Olga Nosova and Alexei Borisov, who has become in the past few years probably the best known Russian experimental musician outside of his home country, joined the group in January 2015. While Nikkilä and Borisov are "ingenious dilettantes" with a long musical history stretching back to early 1980s post-punk, the groups's two young multi-instrumentalists Nosova and Henri Nikkilä are formally educated, highly skilled jazz and post-rock improvisers.

Grace and Delete

Chris Cundy and James Dunn have worked together in a variety of live projects since 1996. The duo of Grace & Delete deals with a direct approach to free improvisation. The music is governed by an endless variety of sounds, organised by will of an apparently anarchic instrumental relationship. The bass clarinet is played acoustically and explores an inventive vocabulary with its electronic counter part. A custom programmed screen-less laptop has been modified to allow for the transference of triggered sounds, to and fro, within its system. The minor role of an ironic go-between is played by a Tinnitus Analyser with its detected noises becoming elevated to electronic sounds in their own right. In the midst of this spontaneity of thought, a unity of sound is found within the music.

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Slow Listener

“A long-time purveyor of quality tapes and audio curiosities, Robin Dickinson has been cleverly snapped up by the very good Exotic Pylon records and it’s a good thing too. ‘The Long Rain’ might be the most complete vision he’s come up with to date, as he blends a sensitive ear for decomposing drones (think an atonal William Basinski) with a keen understanding of music concrete and noise. The most marvelous thing about ‘The Long Rain’ is the very character of the sounds, and even in the digital realm it plays like a warped Dictaphone tape with bell sounds warbling and fluttering and crunching percussive sounds coming across like Leatherface’s chains draped around your neck before he drags you into the killing room. We’re probably making it sound much darker than it is, but that’s just the thing – Dickinson has left so much to the listener themselves; the music is at times just low end warbles, radio interference and other-worldly tones, so it depends on our references for those sounds how we actually hear them, and that’s a very good thing indeed. A stunning piece of music, one for fans of Geoff Mullen, PAN or Kevin Drumm – seriously, don’t sleep!” – Boomkat