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Interview with Birchville Cat Motel “Aren’t ALL descriptive words for music hopelessly inadequate?” Campbell Kneale (aka Birchville Cat Motel) protests in this interview, when faced ...

CD Feature/ Annea Lockwood: "A Sound Map of the Danube" Stories from the river: An audio theatre of amazing plasticity.

CD Feature/ Lullatone: "The Bedtime Beat" Sleepwalking precision: On the importance of a good night’s sleep and the benefits of making music in the bathtub.

CD Feature/ Richard Francis: "Together Alone, Together Apart" Accurate but not objective: Returns full repertoire-responsibility to the artist.

CD Feature/ Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel: "s/t" Less chinks: Psychedelic chamber drones pressed to a rustling cloud of unknowing.

CD Feature/ Annea Lockwood: "Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World" The every-day implications of sound: Didjeridus and a sonogram of Ruth Anderson’s jugular.

CD Feature/ Gydja: "Umbilicus Maris" Free forms and floating cohesion: An occultism inspired by the humanity behind the voices of nature.

CD Feature/ Seht & Stelzer: "Exactly what you lost" An album on a diet: Coherent in its fabric and minimalistically-pure in its arrangements.

CD Feature/ Douglas Lilburn: "A song of Islands" A second hint at what the rest of the world has been missing.

White Fungus An arts mag from New Zealand - with universal appeal

Album Feature/ VAW & Heliogabalus Because these pieces don’t claim to save your life or pretend to change the world, they just might

Hayley at Home DVD with live concert released

Westenra withdraws from Tour Hayley decides to give priority to new album instead