Writing across physical and digital formats to situate experimental/electronica music within broader cultural and sonic narratives. Supporting artists and imprints in articulating the stories behind their sounds.
Selected examples include:
Clone
SONIC TRANSMUTATIONS – 31 Years of Clone Records is an extended compilation marking over three decades of one of the Netherlands’ most influential electronic music institutions. Liner notes explore the label’s legacy and the evolving landscape of underground dance culture. → Read
Osàre! Editions
Established in 2019 by Elena Colombi, Osàre! Editions takes its name from the Italian word for 'daring' or 'bold.' The imprint presents future-facing music defined by experimentation and a disregard for the boundaries of time or genre. Release texts and liner notes accompany works by Tutto Questo Sentire, L.F.T., Kinzua, Anna Funk Damage, and others. → Read
Somewhere Press
Based in Glasgow, UK, Somewhere Between queers notions of experimental music and print. Recent projects include reveries by doris dana and The Blue Hour – V/A: Poem & Liner Notes, a print publication and split-side release encircling themes of liminality, sonic intimacy, and collective creative processes. This latter project began with an original poem titled The Blue Hour (authored by Hannah Pezzack), referencing the fleeting twenty minutes between dusk and nightfall: 'the twenty minutes at the end of the day when the sun dips a few degrees below the horizon, leaving an inky residue in its wake.' → Read
Knekelhuis
A Dutch record label and podcast series. Liner notes for Play, a reissue from 1980s synth band Electric Party, were based on an interview with frontman René van Rijn, recalling a vivid chapter in Amsterdam’s history – when squatter uprisings clashed with police, and the city’s clubs drew figures such as David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Cure. → Read
