Audion Magazine

New issue of Audion, the magazine edited by Alan Freeman for Ultima Thule, printed in 60 copies. The cover article covers Magma from 1996 to 2026, thirty years since the band came back to activity, and runs alongside the second part of the beginner's guide to space-rock, this time on Europe: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany. The label sections look at Bacillus / Bellaphon, Soleil Zeuhl, Whitelabrecs, The Avant-Garde Sector and Rescued Relics, plus the final archive e…

Audion 87 arrives like a lovingly overstuffed mixtape passed between devotees, its 44 A4 pages packed with rabbit holes for anyone who still hears “progressive” as a verb, not a museum tag. At its core sit two major anchor features. The first is a deep excavation of choice German label classics, taking April and Schneeball as portals into a republic of small imprints, marginal bands and radical self‑organisation. Rather than recycling the usual Krautrock canon, the piece digs into catalogue corn…

Audion 86 arrives as a concentrated blast of deep listening culture, a 44-page A4 issue that treats the margins of rock, jazz and experimental sound as its natural centre. First published on 6 February 2025 in simultaneous printed and pdf editions, the magazine continues Audion’s long-running refusal to follow fashion, pursuing instead what its editors call “explorations in sound and music” - the points where history gets strange, regional scenes bloom in isolation, and aesthetics mutate far fro…

*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…

Audion 73 is where Audion Magazine’s global circuitry really starts to glow. First published on 3 March 2023 as a 48‑page A4 pdf, the issue threads book criticism, deep historical reappraisal and present‑tense scene reports into one restless survey. It opens, fittingly, on the printed word with “A Fistful of Spaghetti” - an extended book‑review section that uses recent titles on Italian cinema, music and counterculture as a prism, talking through how giallo soundtracks, spaghetti western scores …

Audion 71 catches Audion Magazine in full cartographic mode, tracing how progressive, psychedelic and experimental tendencies have leaked across borders, labels and generations. The issue opens with a feature on Acid Rooster, cast here as “new space-trekkers from Germany”, picking up the kosmische thread with extended jams that feel closer to orbital slingshots than retro homage. The piece listens closely to their long-form structures, guitar textures and rhythmic drift, showing how they tap int…

Audion 70 catches Audion Magazine in full investigative mode, tracing unlikely connections between avant-garde improvisers, 1970s label culture and the latest mutations of progressive rock. At its core is a substantial feature on AMM / AMMMusic, treating the ensemble not as a distant academic reference but as a living fault-line in post‑war sound. The article unpacks how AMM’s radical non-idiomatic improvisation, tape abuse and volume-as-material approach rewired the language of collective playi…

Audion 69 opens on a sustained chord of Italo-symphonic grandeur and slowly fans out across Europe’s most fertile borderlands, using a handful of key case studies to prise open the archive. At its centre is an extended feature on Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, here framed unapologetically as “the Italian masters of classical rock” during their 1970s peak. The article doesn’t simply rehearse the usual praise quotes: it walks album by album through the original run, unpicking how Banco welded conservat…

*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as first edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for full contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.Audion 85 contents... The interstellar cementmixers - 20 questions with Japanese oddities and curiosities, Norway - scandinavian fusion legends 12, Panzerpappa - unclassifiable music from Norway; choice french label classics: Gratte-Ciel…

*50 copies limited edition* 44 page magazine first printed as an edition of 50 copies, and now (12/12/2025) on its second 50-copy run. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Dave Newhouse - Beyond The Muffins. Plus: The untold history of Düsseldorf's Creamcheese, Scandinavian fusion legends 11: Finland, Finnish Oddities and Curiosities, Jim Tetlow …

*50 copies limited edition* 40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. Buying via Bandcamp you also get the option to download the multimedia content.cover article: Spectrum Orchestrum - French underground today. Plus: Celebrating 5 years since the Audion relaunch as a complete multimedia archive, and with 25 new issues!, Denmark - Scandinavian fusion legends 10, Phog - a French one-man band,…

40 page magazine printed as an edition of 50 copies. Absolutely full with articles and reviews. See image 2 for contents. A great collector's item. cover article: Captain Flapattak - French underground todayplus: Don Falcone (Spirits Burning) interview, Flasket Brinner - Scandinavian fusion legends 9, Mange Ferraille, Intermodulation (1970s avant-garde ensemble): Unlikely Connections, Choice French label classics: Atem, The Dr Space / ØSC & co. Sector, labels: Whitelabrecs, ReR Megacorp, PQR-Dis…

Cover article: Choice French Label Classics: Arcane & Cryptoplus: Twilight Of The Alchemists - book review, Arbete och Fritid & Archimedes Badkar - Scandinavian fusion legends 8, David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - interview, Irish progressive rock, 25 questions with Benoit Widemann interview, Supersister archive, labels: Empreintes Digitales, Modulisme, Buh Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Syngate, Whitelabrecs, Blue Matter, die Schachtel, reviews: Dr space, Elephant9, Supersist…

*2025 repress. 50 copies limited edition* This issue of Audion magazine was first published in pdf format and then later also as a limited printed edition. The pdf version is available as two Bandcamp downloads: a pdf/multimedia edition and as a pdf only version. The pdf is viewable on all devices that support pdf files and can easily be printed. This multimedia download also comes with extra files and the audio samples shown on this page. Audion is copyright registered with the British Library,…

Audion 80 (12/2024) 44 pages. Cover article: Dr Space - a chat with the pilot of the Øresund Space CollectiveCornelius Cardew Treatise (event), Mirthrandir - article & interview, Pekka Pohjola - Scandinavian fusion legends 7, Choice British label classics: Virgin part 2 (plus Caroline, and a round-up of other releases), Modulight & others - live at The Church of Sound (event), Alain Basso, labels: Bam Balam, Fou Records, Seelie Court Digital, reviews: Flasket Brinner, Lightwave, Moonseeds, Nurse…

Audion 79 (9/2024) 44 pages. Cover article: Secret Oyster - Scandinavian fusion legends 6 (including interviews)plus: 20 questions with Steve Hillman, Rock In Opposition - the aftermath - global scene, 4: 2010+, Sula Bassana / Dave Schmidt interview (and Sulatron/related reviews), Choice British label classics: Virgin part 1, Rescued Relics incl. Can, Faust, Steve Hillage, etc., labels: Cuneiform, Discus, PQR-Disques Plusqueréel, Elektramusic Berlin, Motvind, Rocket Recordings, reviews: Cosmic G…

Audion 78 (6/2024) 44 pages. Cover article: Burnin Red Ivanhoe - Scandinavian fusion legends 5 (including Karsten Vogel interview)plus: 20 questions with Jez Creek - Modulator ESP, Rock In Opposition - The Aftermath: global scene, 3: 2000+, Torben Unit & 2Morph, Choice British label classics: Vertigo part 2, labels: Fou Records, Monster Melodies, Bam Balam, Norske Albumklassikere (3 pages), more reviews: Mark Jenkins, Mushroom, The Myrrors, Nurse With Wound, The first instalment of Adam Naworal'…

Audion 77 (3/2024) 48 pages. Cover article: Martin Archer interview (Das Rad, Fjall, Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, etc.)plus: Krautrock Today?, A Fistful Of Spaghetti update, Le Folk-Rock Français, Bjorn J:Son Lindh, Janne Schaffer & related - Scandinavian fusion legends 4, Rock In Opposition - The Aftermath: global scene, 2: 1990s+, Choice British label classics: Vertigo part 1, labels: Cuneiform Records, Mellow Records, reviews: Dire Wolves, Øresund Space Collective, Univers Zero, etc.

Audion 76 (12/2023) 44 pages. Cover article: Made In Sweden - Scandinavian fusion legends 3 (including Solar Plexus)plus: 20 questions with Mark Jenkins, Prog & psych from South America Part 5, Resounding: The Art Of Noises - 23/9/2023 at LCB Depot, New discs from Fou Records, Rock In Opposition - The Aftermath: global scene, 1: 1970s-90s part 2, Choice British label classics: Transatlantic, labels: Cuneiform Records, Merry-Go-Round, Seelie Court / Seelie Court Digital, more reviews: Datashock, …

Audion 75  (9/2023) 52 pages. Cover article: Tasavallan Presidentti - Scandinavian fusion legends 2 (including Jukka Tolonen page)plus: Poessitfous - Lost sounds from the French underground, Rock In Opposition - The Aftermath: global scene, 1: 1970s-90s, Tomokie's Cup - We prefer to exist on the periphery, Weird Garden at Leicester Gallery, new Italian prog & underground part 6, Choice British label classics: RCA Victor, The Avant-Garde Sector, Rescued Relics: Amon Düül, Annexus Quam, Volcano Th…

Audion 68(4/2022) 44 pages. Cover article: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Tales from the award winning Marconi bakery...plus: King Crimson part 2, Kornmo, Diagonal, Taj Mahal Travellers, Lutz Ulbrich interview, Choice British Label Classics: Deram, Strange Curios & Eclectic Arcana - Alan Freeman explores the unclassifiable - part 1, Seelie Court Digital (part 2), Hubro, New Italian Prog & Underground - part 3, DiN - Ian Boddy and related reviews, etc.

Audion 67 (2/2022) 48 pages. Cover article: King Crimson part 1 - In The Court Of The Crimson King and other diversionsplus: Alcatraz, Dierks Studios Breeze music reissues (including interviews), Domboshawa - A cosmic one-man-band, Abrete Gandul - exciting sounds from Chile, Eye Make The Horizon - the earlier years, 25 questions with Harald Grosskopf, Mauricio Kagel and the Kölner Ensemble Für Neue Musik, Hubro, Choice British Label Classics: Dawn, Cuneiform (reviews), Seelie Court Digital, etc.…

Audion 66 (12/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Datashock - "Neo-Hippie-Spook-Folk"plus: Alco Frisbass, Etherfysh - interview, The return of Ken Moore, Guranfoe, Dave Powell: Fried Rosin, The Scratch Orchestra: with Cornelius Cardew, Vangelis: the progressive/experimental era, Witthüser & Westrupp , Choice British Label Classics: Dandelion, Alan Freeman - Topology Of A Phantom City (review), the return of "the avant-garde sector", Prix Russolo at The Western, Rescued Relics: The Electric Prunes, Ta…

Audion 65 (10/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Kungens Män - Free-rock from the "King's Men" of Swedenplus: Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band, Terje Rypdal - the early years 1968-78 (Scandinavian fusion legends 1), Wallenstein - the Krautrock era, Choice British label classics: B&C Records and Chrysalis, Obscure psychedelic & progressive singles of the 1960s/70s, part 3: Italy, Mexicanos Oscuros, Musea, Rescued Relics: Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Dunkelziffer, Faust - 1971-1974 box set, Nektar, Ta…

Audion 64 (8/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Jordsjø interview - classic prog reinvented the Norwegian wayplus: Chris Conway interview - adventures in electronics and world music, Dzyan, Toby Robinson connections, New Phonic Art - international French avant-garde, Robert Rich - Catching up with, Choice British Label Classics: Charisma Records, Obscure psychedelic & progressive singles of the 1960s/70s, Part 2: Germany, Italian library music gems, Rediscovering the post-punk underground, a big Res…

Audion 63 (6/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Ring Van Möbius interview - the unlikely new prog heroes of Norwayplus: Banned In Czechoslovakia, Gentle Fire, July to Jade Warrior & beyond, Obscure psychedelic & progressive singles of the 1960s/70s, Part 1: France, Achim Reichel: A.R. & Machines, Doctor Space connections, Ruin - Leicester's best-kept secret, part two, Ruphus, New Italian Prog & Underground - part 2, ECM Records (label feature), Stephen Iliffe's Ambient Sector (reviews),  El Paraiso,…

Audion 62 (4/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Steve Roach: A Deeper Shade Of Spaceplus: In The Wake Of Ange - Alan investigates the French way of "prog", Avant-Garde Krautrock, Collegium Musicum, Dire Wolves interview, Supersilent 8-12, Twenty-Five Views Of Worthing, Auricle reissues: Kevin O'Neill, label features: Cosmic Egg, Garden Of Delights, Long Hair Music, Moonjune Records, Soleil Zeuhl, Viajero Inmovil, plus: Sounds like Neu?, Weird!, Rescued Relics, etc.

Audion 61 (2/2021) 40 pages. Cover article: Ståle Storløkken interviewplus: Ange: a fantastic first decade, Wolfgang Dauner's Krautrock era, Time Of Commotion, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Suspirium (part 2), Tangerine Dream - In Search Of Hades, Auricle reissues: Poultry Products,  Bureau B, Cuneiform, DiN, new International fusion discoveries, 10 greatest sitar albums of 1960s/70s, Sounds like Zeuhl, Head In The Clouds, etc.

Audion 60 (12/2020) 40 pages. Cover article: Karaba and the New Munich Undergroundplus: Electric Orange, Patrick Gauthier Interview, Richard Pinhas/Heldon - Live At The Venue London 1982, Grobschnitt, Endgame (review), Group 1850 - Purple Sky, Else-Marie Pade, Karlheinz Stockhausen,  French Underground from Caen & Lille, Canterbury Reborn (reviews), New Italian Prog & Underground, Trip Rock 3 - N to Z, Melodic Energy Commission, Auricle Reissues (label feature), Soleil Zeuhl (label feature), Sva…

Audion 59 (10/2020) 40 pages. Cover article: Novalis - Emotional progressiveplus: Honduras Libregrupo, Kosmose, Krautzone, October Equus, Sonar, Suspirium, Volcano The Bear - fragments of disarray, Zreen Toyz - The mysterious electronics of Jean Luc Hervé Berthelot, Garden Of Delights, Long Hair Music, Musea, Soleil Zeuhl, Wah Wah?, More obscure American classics, New prog & fusion from Scandinavia, Trip Rock 2 - A to M, Rescued Relics, reviews, etc.

Audion 47 (12/2002) 40 pages. Cover article: A Little Bit Of Spaghetti: New Trolls, Nuova Idea, Osanna, Novaplus: Dweller At The Threshold (interview), Eleni Karaindrou - Film Music, Nurse With Wound (9 reviews), Cuneiform Records, Musea Records, Relics Revisited, Garden Of Delights, Some Choice Leicester Talent Volcano The Bear & others, Oöphoi, IQ In Concert - Sat 29th June 2002, Electroshock, etc.

Audion 41 (11/1999) 44 pages. Cover article: The Legend of the Third Ear Bandplus: Rescued Relics, La Neu Captain Trip?!, Paradigm Discs, Felix Jay (Interview), Musea, Embryo, Zeuhl part 1 - The Magma Story, Faust - The Garage, London, 25/10/98, Burg Herzberg Festival, 17-19/7/98, Volcano The Bear, Garden Of Delights, Cuneiform Records, etc.

Audion 40 (11/1998) 44 pages. Cover article: 30 Years of Krautrock with Guru Guru, Mani Neumeier, Uli Trepteplus: Igor Wakhevitch "Donc...", Krautrock Reissues, RIO - Revisions And Additions: Bruniferd + Octavo, Gazul Records, Repertoire's Krautrock Archive, Rescued Relics, Hans-Joachim Roedelius - 30 Years On (interview), Brainville - Physio & Firkin, Leicester 19/6/98, Helmut Wenske - The Visionary Art Of, Cuneiform Records, Graham Bowers - Eternal Ghosts,  articles & interviews, RIO - The Aft…

Audion 39 (2/1998) 44 pages. Cover article: Space Explosion - The ultimate Krautrock Supergroup plus: Rock In Opposition - Part 5: Stormy Six, Burg Herzberg - Open Air Festival 1997, Silver Apples & Support,Crevice, Bondage Fruit, RLW, Premiata Forneria Marconi "10 Anni Live", Captain Trip, Space Dreams, Volcano The Bear - Physio & Firkin, Leicester, 5/9/97, Brian Barritt - Memoirs Of A Cosmic Joker, reviews, etc.

Audion 38 (8/1997) 48 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition - Part 4: The French Connection (Etron Fou, ZNR, Albert Marcoeur, Art Zoyd)plus: NME at the NFT - Julian Cope Presents A Krautrocksampler, Sphere & IQ - The Palace Theatre, Newark, 11/5/97, Artemiy Artemiev, Cluster On Tour, Volcano The Bear - Physio & Firkin, Leicester 1997, SFF - An interview with Heinz Fröhling, Urban Sax - "Street Life" at the South Bank, London 18/7/97, The Deviants, King Crimson "Epitaph", Cunieform Records, Se…

Audion 37 (5/1997) 44 pages. Cover article: A Chat With Chris Karrerplus: Caravan, Cluster - Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 6/8/96, Faust - The return of Faust Part ???, Moving Gelatine Plates - The Genius Of, Rescued Relics, KLEMdag '96 - Vereniging, Nimwegen, Rescued Relics, Infortecture, Peter Hammill - Union Chapel, London 3/11/96, London Oris Jazz Festival - QEH, Brainticket - The Mysterious Story of..., etc.

Audion 33 (10/1995) 44 pages. Cover article: Agitation Free - Roots Of The Berlin Krautrock Sceneplus: Fushitsusha , Chris Cutler - The Interview, Rescued Relics: Atlas, Fifty Foot Hose, Vita Nova, etc., Nuova Consonanza, Hoelderlin, U.K. Electronica 1995, Maureen Anderson / Shapeshifter, reviews: Boud Deun, Cranioclast, Cul De Sac, Groon, Heretic, Magma, Melting Euphoria, Mimir, Saddar Bazaar, etc.

Audion 31 (4/1995) 40 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition, part 2 - the Henry Cow legacyplus: Cuneiform Records, Legend Music, Lost Vinyl, Discipline Global Mobile, Tony Conrad With Faust + AMM - QEH, London, 17/2/95, Art Gallery, Teru's Symphonia, Bi Kyo Ran: A Japanese Progressive Legend, Magical Power Mako, Jorge Reyes, plus: MIA, Grey Lady Down, Frei Zinger, reviews, etc.

Audion 30 ((2/1995) 40 pages. Cover article: Rock In Opposition, part 1 - Univers Zero/Present/Daniel Denisplus: Made In Sweden 90s Style, Art Zoyd - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Electronic Music From Cologne: Stockhausen, Eimert, etc., Morphogenesis - Conway Hall 3/11/94, New Perspectives In Music, New Synth from Europe: Ron Boots, Frank Quasar, etc., 5uu's, The Hafler Trio, Rufus Zuphall - Avalon And On, etc.

Audion 29 (10/1994) 40 pages. Cover article: French Special: Jean-François Pauvros / Jac Berrocal / Catalogue plus: UK Electronica 1994, Voiceprint - Radio Sessions, Byoung Duk Kim, Rhys Chatham + 101 Electric Guitars,John Etheridge Band, Mother Gong - Leicester 94, Klaus Schulze - Paris 94, Jacques Rémus: Mecamusique, The Urban Sax Experience, Richard Pinhas & John Livengood - interview, Odd Size, etc.