Second Expression at The Split Gallery, Hackney Road, East London – A second show, a second expression of intent at the still rather freshly opened Spit Gallery. A Wednesday night opening, a new art space somewhere in that vague area of East London where Shoreditch or maybe Dalston starts to become Hackney, a new gallery…
Now we have been meaning to say something about the rather mysterious Temple Ov Saturn for quite some time now, Mysteries from deepest Nyack, New York. Dark electronica, collage, Temple Ov Saturn is something to do with multi-media artist Joan Pope. A rather prolific artist both visually and in aural form, as anyone who follows…
A quick one, the rather underappreciated Virgin Prunes’ debut studio album, … If I Die, I Die is set for release on 11 November 2022 on Mute. The 40th Anniversary Edition is remastered and will be reissued on vinyl for the first time since 1982. The album will also be available as a 2CD mediabook…
Mikado Koko – Songs To Our Other Selves (Caliban Sounds) – “Japanese outsider poet and producer, Mikado Koko, presents a new album on Caliban Sounds in association with One Little Independent Records, ‘To Our Other Selves’. The album is an exploration and continuation of Penny Rimbaud’s classic fifty track album ‘Acts of Love’, released in…
It was indeed with a genuine froth of excitement that we headed towards Caroline Coon‘s newly opened exhibition of paintings “Love of Place” on the first full day of it being open over in the plush gallery district of the West End – might have been even more exciting to see it in an unused…
Saro Cosentino – The Road To Now (Cat Sound) – The Joke was recently made available as a teaser song from the new album by the Italian composer and producer Saro Cosentino. The song is co-written with “prog legend” Peter Hammill and features his “distinctive lead vocal”, it is full of portent with a lyric about…
Last night’s Other Rock Show, brought to you by Organ, on London arts radio station Resonance 104.4fm went something like this. If you missed it at 9pm (for that is the time it happens every Sunday evening) then you can listen whenever you wish via Mixcloud, here comes the link. Actually you can listen to…
Organ Thing of The Day: A quick one today for we’re busy making a Mixtape. Today’s thing is the news that James Johnston and Steve Gullick have just announced their second album Everybody’s Sunset, the album is due out in November on God Unknown Records (who we note are also doing something with Monster Magnet).…
Nick Grindrod, Strata, Smithson Gallery, Bateman Street, Solo, London W1 – Word is you couldn’t move at Nick Grindrod’s much anticipated Soho opening last Thursday night, no space to move, let alone see anything so we’re told. Word is things were hot in every sense and as fun as opening night’s can be, a peaceful…
Now where were we? Trying not to step on pigeons and listening to that new SkinGraft compilation album we mentioned a couple of weeks back, the one loaded with all kinds of intriguing goodies – ORGAN THING: SkinGraft, surely one of the best labels on the planet, get ready to celebrate their 150th release with…
Right then, like we already said, time to whatever again, well we said that last week (and the week before), are we into a so called new art season now? Never did see much of difference between August and September, has the season kicked off now? Five more art things then. five art things, almost…
The editorial bit again, the introduction that heralds the latest Five Music Things thing and whatever the five music thing is actually all about. Five? There’s something rather compelling about five. Cross-pollination? Five more? Do we need to do the editorial bit again? Is there another way? A cure for pulling cats out of hats?…
“This Autumn, we return to London with Nick Grindrod‘s much-anticipated solo exhibition, Strata” so say Smithson Gallery, and in this case, “much-anticipated” does feel right. There’s quite a few of us waiting to see Nick Grindrod’s work in the actual living breathing flesh. You might be familiar with him from some of our Cultivate on-line…
Marlene Steyn, You-Me-Verse at Lychee One, Hackney, East London – Did go check out the new Marlene Steyn show at Hackney’s Lychee One the day after the show opened, never the most friendly or engaging of galleries, or that informative for that matter, but they are just over the road from us here and we…
Organ Thing of The Day – More Ghost Car, selfish? Spoiled? Fizzing fractured new wave pop music, we like fizzing fractured pop music. Ghost Car’s debut album is on the way next month, this in another fine slice, another bite of their positive energy as well as that glorious attitude of theirs. The Debut album…
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