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Best Of 2020
It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a year unlike any before- which most want to forget, due to all the loss, stress & inner/outer turmoil created worldwide. But there has still been positives/ reasons -to-celebrate this year- and some of those have come from either sonic or visual mediums . Below our writers select their favourite musical, sound & film moments from the strange/ troubling year that was 2020- and as always our picks cover a wide range of genres.
Cold Light Of Day Interview with Fhiona-Louise
Cold Light Of Day is one of the more terminal bleak serial killer films ever made. The low budget 1989 British production roughly told the story of 1980’s London serial killer Dennis Nilsen. It featured largely gore-less, but very gruelling strangulation murders- all wrapped-up in grim ‘n’ grimy bed-sit setting. For many years it’s been one of the lesser-seen/ known films of the serial killer genre, which is a great pity- as yes it’s a real downer, but it’s both powerfully disturbing and harrowingly memorable. Recently Arrow Video has given the film a classy Blu Ray reissue- so we decidedly to track down the films writer/director Fhiona-Louise for a rare interview.
Rien
Someone once said that there is real joy in detail, and you can certainly use this quote to talk about the work of Swedish textured noise/ minimal walled noise venture Rien. Since 2016 the project has mined its own often distinctively reserved, yet cleverly detailed, and often highly entrancing take on noise-making- so far release around thirty release on various respected noise labels across the globe. The man behind the project Stockholm based Johan Strömvalll Hammarstedt kindly agreed to give us an email interview- Johan is also behind Gamiani, J.S.H., J S H, and runner of the excellent Swedish tape label Ominous Recordings.
