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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

To celebrate Subvert's launch, I’ve uploaded my new release (Dis)possessed there as well. It’s slightly cheaper than on Bandcamp, with an additional discount for Subvert members. Check it out here: www.subvert.fm/alex-roth/tr...

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

Subvert is IMO the closest anyone has come to answering that question. Unlike Bandcamp, Subvert takes 0% of payments to artists. Instead, when you purchase music on the platform, you'll see an option to contribute an additional amount to help keep Subvert community-owned.

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

I've been using Bandcamp as both supporter & artist since its early days, & I continue to upload my music there. But after being sold first to Epic Games, then to Songtradr, a lot of us have been asking what a more sustainable & artist-centred alternative could look like.

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

I joined early on (proud member #118) because, having gotten to know its founder @austinrobey.xyz through an online residency with @metalabel.bsky.social & subsequently met up with him in NYC in 2023, I really believe in the vision behind it: essentially a collectively owned version of Bandcamp.

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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

Listen and buy exclusively on Bandcamp: alexrothmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dis-po...

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(Dis)possessed, by Alex Roth

1 track album

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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

All the sounds in the piece were created using these objects, and the music I composed with them is almost entirely based on cantorial melodies linked to the specific sections of the Torah that are still legible on the parchments.

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

(Dis)possessed responds to objects in POLIN’s collection that were made out of (mis)appropriated Torah parchment during and after World War II.

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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

His work in the '50s–'60s introduced some seriously innovative guitar sounds that presaged punk, heavy metal and prog. Resisting labels' attempts to "clean up" his sound, Wray turned his brother's chicken coop into a 3-track studio & spent the '70s experimenting on his own terms. Legend.

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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

Klaudia's piece is then travelling to NYC as part of the DUMBO Dance Festival. www.whitewavedance.org

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2025 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL | WHITEWAVE

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

2. Then on Saturday, an evening of dance and performance art curated by KWAM Collective includes the premiere of "head bucket bed" by Klaudia Wittmann, with an original score by me. www.tickettailor.com/events/kwamc...

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Buy tickets – KWAM open performance night – Longfield Hall (Camberwell, South London)

An evening of dance and performance art in South London. The event, curated by KWAM Collective in partnership with Longfield H...

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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 · 13/06/2025

Thank you 🙏 Most of the eruv was .8mm welding wire, which I stretched round trees by threading through holes in wooden blocks tied to trunks (so as not to harm the bark) (L). Then at strategic points I inserted guitar strings by crimping wire & string together with ferrules (R).

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

Deep thanks to the Foundation for this invitation, and to the locals who participated in the project. Photos by Alicja Szulc (the good ones) and me (the rest).

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

The sounds we recorded—barely audible to the naked ear, fragile, yet rich in overtones— will become the basis of a new composition which will feed into Fundacja Zapomniane's ongoing commemorative activities.

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

Then I invited members of the local community to interact with the installation, recording sounds from the strings as they did so. Thus the forest was transformed into a large-scale musical instrument—a resonator of history—& the eruv reimagined as an acoustic perimeter of remembrance.

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

1st I built a symbolic 150-metre-long eruv around the 3 mass graves, using guitar strings (from my own guitar) & wire stretched between trees. Movingly, this was the first time the scale of the burial site had been made clearly visible.

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

My latest attempt to answer this question responds to the requirement in Jewish law to mark the boundaries of graves (which in this case are otherwise invisible in the landscape), & the idea of an eruv—a symbolic enclosure that extends the sacred space of the home into the public realm on Shabbat.

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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 · 03/06/2025

"Selected Transient Works" 🤭👏

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

Observatory Station is part of the Barbican's Feel the Sound exhibition, which runs until 31 August. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

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Feel the Sound | Barbican

Imagine experiencing sound for the very first time.

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

This unique new sound installation by Miyu Hosoi in partnership with @citiesandmemory.bsky.social uses sound to collect snapshots of places and times all over the world. On the map pictured here, the little dot in Kraków represents my recording of the famous Hejnał Mariacki trumpet call.

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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 · 02/04/2025

I've thought about this. When I choose an album's opening track, I'm thinking about people who listen to whole records, not that it's necessarily the "lead single". When I choose the highlighted track, I'm thinking about people who might come across an embedded player & only listen to 1 track.

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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

Yeah, and she hardly ever spoke about it either. She was mainly interested in learning polyrhythms to explore a kind of trance-like approach to free improvisation.

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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 · 19/03/2025

Fun fact: I was Donna Matthews' guitar teacher while we were both at Dartington circa 2006. I knew she'd previously been in a band but only found out later it was Elastica!

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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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