Field recordings from that place are mixed with her prepared zither, creating a collage bristling with life and activity. They have a lulling yet disturbed rise and fall, a collective sigh, and all its possible connotations, stuck in a loop. This year marked the 60th anniversary of the cassette, and its moment of attention in wider discourse coincided with a surge in people treating them as a nostalgic fetish to capitalise on, and a rise online at least of snubbing as either a scenester crush, or a ridiculous low fidelity anachronism. A Quietus Interview The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed Iron Maiden's larger than life frontman talks to author John Higgs about magical practice, the hallucinatory mandrake root, how to survive a rough childhood and why William Blake is an artist we should look to for inspiration. Our journalism is funded by our readers.
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