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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 03/07/2026

Longest one yet. I went deep on The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions and the first masterpiece of Miles Davis’s electric era. open.substack.com/pub/alexroth...

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Electric Miles, part 4

The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions and the first electric-era masterpiece

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 15/06/2026

In part 3 of my series on Miles Davis's electric period, I go deep on the studio as an instrument, and discuss philosophical frameworks for listening to some of the 20th century's most ground-breaking music. open.substack.com/pub/alexroth...

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Electric Miles, part 3

The studio as an instrument, and a framework for listening

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 12/06/2026

(Dis)possessed is now available on all streaming platforms. Listen here: ampl.ink/dispossessed

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Alex Roth - (Dis)possessed

Stream on your favourite service through AmplifyWorld

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 05/06/2026

As a longtime reader of the excellent MUSICx newsletter, this recommendation of my series of articles exploring Miles Davis's electric period means a lot 🙏 Electric Miles, part 3 coming soon… 👀 open.substack.com/pub/musicx/p...

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✘ The audience the industry can't see

And: What the chart doesn't see; How the Grammy's should handle AI; Electric Miles; Turning sound into steel and bricks; Why they only listen to their own Suno-generated sounds

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 29/05/2026

My second Substack post focuses on the exact recording I think marks the beginning of Miles Davis’s electric period. And it’s probably not what you think…

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Electric Miles, part 2

The Turning Point

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 29/05/2026

Part 2 in my series on Miles Davis coming to Substack tomorrow, featuring the exact recording that marks the transition to his electric period. Any guesses? Clue: it’s not Miles in the Sky, Filles de Kilimanjaro, or In A Silent Way…

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 26/05/2026

On what would have been Miles Davis's 100th birthday, here’s the first of a series of articles exploring his seminal yet divisive electric period. open.substack.com/pub/alexroth...

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Electric Miles, part 1

Introduction and Early Electric Experiments

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 12/05/2026

Today, a new platform called @subvert.fm launches publicly. Uniquely, Subvert is structured as a co-operative of over 20,000 members: artists, labels, supporters, and workers. In other words: a marketplace for music collectively owned by the people who use it, rather than by a corporation.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 08/05/2026

"There’s a real beauty here... a moving experience." Many thanks to Dominic Valvona for this attentive and detailed review of (Dis)possessed for @monolithcocktail.bsky.social 🙏

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 01/05/2026

My new album (Dis)possessed is out now: music I created for a sound installation at Warsaw's POLIN Museum in 2024. Available exclusively on Bandcamp: alexrothmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dis-po... #BandcampFriday

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 17/04/2026

New release coming on 1 May, exclusive to Bandcamp, where I've just launched a new backstage area for listeners who want to support my music more directly and sustainably. Check it out at: alexrothmusic.bandcamp.com/backstage

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 29/01/2026

Listen is an anagram of silent.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 20/06/2025

Moment of appreciation for Fred Lincoln Wray Jr. Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK. Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr. Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 16/06/2025

Incidentally, Fb just reminded me that 11 years ago today Alice released her debut album China Lane, which I had the pleasure of playing on and co-producing. Happy to be making music together still, albeit remotely on this occasion. alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...

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China Lane, by Alice Zawadzki

7 track album

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 16/06/2025

Londoners: 2 things happening this week to which I've had the pleasure of contributing. 1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Tigran Hamasyan | Barbican

The piano virtuoso with groove power seamlessly fuses potent jazz improvisation and progressive rock with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 12/06/2025

How to engage with sites of trauma through sound? I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 26/05/2025

Happy to have played a small part in this new exhibition at the Barbican. Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 02/04/2025

Hands up: who knew Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor recorded together?

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 31/03/2025

A couple of shots from Kasia Witek's performance The Peace Of Wild Things, which premièred at Laban Theatre, London, earlier this month. Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses) 📸 Rocio Chacon More info on my website.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 19/03/2025

Are Elastica having a moment, critically speaking? I keep seeing music writers mention how much they still like them. Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 18/03/2025

Kasia Witek's latest dance performance, which I've scored, premieres this week at Laban Theatre in London, commissioned by Trinity Laban Dance Collective with new music I created in collaboration with double bassist Caius Williams: www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri... 📸 from yday's tech rehearsal

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 14/03/2025

Thanks to @metalabel.bsky.social for shouting out my EP Viscera in the latest pick of new releases. magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...

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Collecting is a form of participation, preservation, and patronage

RELEASE CORNER 001

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 08/03/2025

2 hours of delicious drones, musique concrète, noise music and other experimental sounds, including a track from my new EP Viscera.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 07/03/2025

Today I'm delighted to release my original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera. Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 05/03/2025

My new EP drops on Friday and I'm celebrating with a listening party. RSVP 🔗 below. Viscera is my first film score 🎥 The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 04/03/2025

#NowPlaying Sunny Five – Candid Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 26/02/2025

#NowPlaying Roberta Flack – First Take Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty. I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 25/02/2025

#NowPlaying Tonight's double bill: Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024) Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld. Hypnotic listening.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 25/02/2025

Excited to announce the release of my award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera, coming out on multidisciplinary label @zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 24/02/2025

#NowPlaying @juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 23/02/2025

#NowPlaying Charles Lloyd – Canto My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 20/02/2025

A few suggestions for a historical guide to drone music. Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 19/02/2025

#NowPlaying McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' @bluenoterecords.bsky.social Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 17/02/2025

The biggest video streaming platform in the world has produced an adaptation of arguably the greatest novel of the last century. And, contrary to my expectations, it's actually very well done. But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 16/02/2025

Some of this weekend's listening: @photay.bsky.social – Windswept Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary @matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse Stan Getz & Bill Evans

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Zyla @zylaworks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We can relate.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 11/02/2025

New addition to my playlist of 2024 favourites: divr – Is This Water @wejazz.bsky.social European take on the post-@vijayiyer.bsky.social piano trio, with delicious production by my friend Dan Nicholls subtly nudging the band's sound towards electronic aesthetics.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 11/02/2025

Anyone know what instrument the low sound at the beginning of this remarkable track is? DeJohnette is credited with melodica on some tracks but this sounds too low and too electronic to be that. Maybe some kind of synth? And what about the arpeggiated figure at 5:20? youtu.be/gcKM6ThFZ-o?...

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Journey To The Twin Planet

YouTube video by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition - Topic

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 10/02/2025

When the world seems like a dark place, and making art feels at best trivial, if not futile, remember these words from my old composition teacher Frank Denyer.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 08/02/2025

#NowPlaying Dawn of Midi – Dysnomia @erasedtapes.com Once in a generation a group reinvents the sound of the piano trio. This was the last record that did that for me. Deep polyrhythmic grooves slowly evolve over 9 continuous tracks, like The Necks playing Steve Reich mixed by Aphex Twin.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 05/02/2025

Currently sending out promo copies of my next release: it's my debut film score, coming out on @zylaworks.bsky.social. If you're a journalist & would like an advance copy, please DM me.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 04/02/2025

#NowPlaying Bill Withers – Just as I Am The cover photo was taken on Withers' lunch break outside the factory he was working in at the time of recording, installing airplane toilets.

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 03/02/2025

London is lucky to have people like @babayagashut.bsky.social putting on gigs like this. The stand-out show for me is probably The Bug vs Big Brave. But also: Jim Jarmusch! @zsennef.bsky.social! @robinrimbaud.bsky.social! Ellen Arkbro!

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Alex Roth @alexrothmusic.com · 02/02/2025

#NowPlaying Philip Jeck – rpm @touch33.net Beautifully curated posthumous release from the experimental composer, with guest contributions from @zsennef.bsky.social, @davidsylvian.bsky.social, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and @jahwobble.bsky.social among others.

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Zyla @zylaworks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As we gear up for Scene 2, here's a reminder of our previous season of multidisciplinary releases. Scene 1 centred around Inpouring, an EP by @alexrothmusic.bsky.social & @alicepurton.bsky.social created as the score to a dance performance by Kasia Witek. zylaworks.bandcamp.com/album/inpour...

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Inpouring (Original Dance Score), by Alex Roth & Alice Purton

4 track album

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