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Selected articles by Hannah Pezzack include:
Album Review: Pauline Anna Strom’s Angel Tears in Sunlight
Posthumously released, Angel Tears in Sunlight is the first new material from electronic music pioneer Pauline Anna Strom in over three decades. Blind from birth and entirely self-taught, she composed intuitively from her San Francisco apartment, accompanied by her beloved iguanas, Miss Huff and Little Solstice. A fiercely independent figure, Strom moved adjacent to but apart from the New Age music scene, creating sonic worlds dense with spiritual resonance, layered textures, and cosmic intent. → Read
For Aural Use Only: Pauline Oliveros’ Quantum Listening
A review of Ignota Books’ new edition of Pauline Oliveros' Quantum Listening – a manifesto for listening as activism. Oliveros’ futuristic vision, blending technology and spirituality, shows how deep listening is the foundation for a radically transformed social matrix: one in which compassion and peace form the basis for our actions in the world. → Read
Heavenly Chorals: Gazelle Twin’s Favourite Albums
Reverent as hymns, choral-style vocals snake through Gazelle Twin's discography, often manipulated beyond human recognisability, taking shape as hypnotic siren calls, cyborg choruses, or fractured, breathy harmonies. In this interview, she talks about thirteen albums that influenced her – from Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien to early electronica and devotional music. → Read
