Watch the trailer for our new feature documentary ‘The Organ: A Modern Classic’
‘There is a movement happening’. The Organ is beginning to influence contemporary music in a rather inspiring way. Filmed at the UK’s first experimental organ festival Organ Reframed at Union Chapel, this documentary the worlds first synthesizer from its catholic roots and image. Shot on site of the UK’s first experimental organ festival, in 5K resolution and using the same cinema camera […]
REVIEW: Outlook Orchestra 2017
For Outlook festival to chart their audacious decade of sound system partying, it was only fair to try to create something novel – bespoke in fact… How to blend a melting pot of dance genre, MC’S, musicians, and cultures and conceptualise it into a 100 min essential mix? This means up-scaling, massively. Sound-system controls joined, and […]
Review: Jordan Ireland With Purple Orchestra
Jordan Ireland continues to develop his dynamic approach to ambient-folk with his first self-titled release, accompanied intangibly by the Purple Orchestra. The antipodean pocket of the world may know Jordan Ireland from the northern Queensland folk outfit The Middle East. For just a pack of ‘naive country kids’, they blew up fast in the face […]
Review: Irma Vep – No Handshake Blues
Welsh native and Manchester DIY veteran Irma Vep delivers a colourful spread of psychedelic-folk for his new album, No Handshake Blues. Opening with eleven minutes of indulgent and enduring warped, hazy psychedelia by way of ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’, Irma Vep’s latest full length offering bears a distinctly timeless quality. Unfurling in moments […]
PREMIERE | Levant – Monad
From the Romanian composer LeVant comes this conceptual project tackling rather complex narratives. Alongside studying his PHD in Philosophy of Digital Culture & New Media, George D. Stanciulescu also wrote a book entitled “Postmodernism and Digimodernism in music: philosophical perspectives”. The response he’d received from this book led to him creating his own interpretation of digimodernism in the form of UnFinetude. Released on The Sublunar […]
Review: Zooey – The Drifters
Matthieu Beck and Marie Merlet are the pair that make up the French duo Zooey, and together they have created an easy-listening, positive, and immersive record. The Drifters was created in their London home studio and encompasses Maries’ admiration of experimental pop and sixties soul, in which she has just announced her first solo album […]
The Outlook Orchestra @ Southbank Centre
Eponymous collective OUTLOOK will be entering new territory to mark their 10th year with an innovative live music project . In collaboration with SOUTHBANK centre, Leed’s based party organisers/originators will present a 100 minute live music mix live on stage in the prestigious Royal Festival Hall. The 20 piece ensemble of drummers, horns and rhythm […]
Best Music Releases of 2016 – Staff Picks
Original email to the CONE team: Well what a year. We’ve gone through what has probably been one of the most iconic years of a generation. A TV host with the rationality of a goat is now running one of the most powerful countries in the world, Britain’s official ‘worst prime minister on record’ takes […]
Weighty lineup to play at Bristols In:Motion on NYD
To bring us into the new year, Bristol’s In:Motion series will be presenting a star studded lineup across two warehouses. The 2016 In:motion series, which started only a few weeks back has already drafted in the likes of Roni Size, Congo Natty and Oneman. Now the longstanding Bristolian institution are keen to set the gold standard, with some rather spectacular […]
Brian Eno creates new app to launch with album
Brian Eno has created the smartphone app to amplify the experiences of his new forthcoming album ‘Reflection’. Brian Eno has long been heralded for his inventive nature and the upcoming album which releases on Warp 1 January 2017 features a 54 minute ambient track, which he felt needed to be expanded upon. The application as he explains […]