The much trumpeted London Mural Festival is almost upon us, it happens in the first weeks of September and it throws up all kinds of uncomfortable questions about the further commercialisation of street art, about gentrification and community, about art as mere advertising, about the integrity of it all. And as much as anything else,…
“As part of their ambitious ‘The Feeding of the Five Thousand Remix Project’, punk pioneers Crass are returning with another exclusive coloured 12” single featuring remixes by legendary producer Steve Aoki and Japanese outsider musician Mikado Koko”. Remixes and reworkings are the thing this week so i would seem, there is of course only course…
Now if he hadn’t been so cruelly shot and in such mysterious circumstances back there at the end of that gig at the Hammersmith Odeon it would have been rather interesting to ask Tom Mahler what he made of this rather big remix? The original version is of course a classic, it sounded great when…
Organ Thing of The Day: Composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan has announced the first in a series of three albums of library music.. Listen to ‘Eagle Ears’, the first taste of what to expect from the album here… . “First in a series of 3 LPs of Library Music miniatures from composer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel…
Organ Thing of the Day: Some glorious new music from the ever beautiful always wonderful thing that is The Last Dinosaur, this latest piece of musical treasure is something called Wholeness and the Implicate Order, a piece taken from the forthcoming album, Wholeness, released October 23rd on Phases. Have things got a little more epic…
CABARET VOLTAIRE have announced a first new album release in over 20 years. Shadow Of Fear is set for release on Mute on 20 November 2020. You can listen to ‘Vasto’, the first taste of what to expect from the new album right here . . Here’s the press release, yeah I know, another lazy cut’n…
And so we asked the question about doing it all again, well why not? This is the fourth Cultivate on-line art show of this strange fractured year, three more than we had intended for 2020 – we think this is the 157th show since the idea of Cultivate came together halfway down Vyner Street here…
A new Brixton mural pays homage to hip-hop artist Ty, who passed away in May due to complications related to COVID-19. The rather fitting and hopefully perminant mural was unveiled today at Valencia Place in Brixton by artists Bunny Bread and Jason Caballero of Create Not Destroy & Jazz re:freshed. Located under an arch, by…
We hadn’t planned on hosting a fourth Cultivate on-line show here on these Organ pages during 2020, then again any plans we did have for 2020 went out the window ages ago. We did actually start running on-line shows alongside the physical Cultivate gallery shows back in 2017, well before this damn covid thing infected…
Organ Thing of the Day: We did recommend the Demsky show at StolenSpace a couple of weeks back, it is still going on, it goes on until August 23rd, the original recommendation is down the page there under the first image. Of you haven’t managed to make it over to Whitechapel yet, or even if…
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