First up are three BE2018 mixes that ended up on our Mixcloud account:
Petridisch Mix – featuring Jaga Jazzist, Me’Shell NDegeocello, Aine O’Dwyer, Gas, Jon Gibson, Diamanda Galas, Yuka Honda and more
Pedal Fuzz Mix – featuring Susan Alcorn, Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, Yuka Honda, The Thing, Wu Fei, Tal National and more
Andrew Ward Mix – featuring Steve Gunn, Anna & Elizabeth, Jenny Hval, Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori, Arto Lindsay and more
We brought back quite a bit of video footage from the festival and you can watch it all via BE 2018 playlist and/or you can also read some of our reports:
Algiers – aka Tangiers (due to absence of Ryan Mahan) with packed secret show at Pilot Light
Arto Lindsay – former Mars/DNA mastermind performing with Paal Nilssen-Love at The Standard
Jaga Jazzist – Norwegian 9-piece instrumental band
Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) + Mats Gustaffson (The Thing) – follow-up to a sold-out show that Four Tet played the night prior, a wild fusion of squealing sax and electronics
Diamanda Galas / Nief Norf – Greek siren taking us on a journey into the darkest depths of her soul (with some swearing involved) + Nief Norf playing Steve Reich’s Quartets
Finally there’s some reading material about Big Ears we wanted to highlight:
The Embiggening – Immune to Boredom on Big Ears 2018
Big Ears 2018 Photos / Tweets from Curveball Thrower
Those Wigs Might Cover Big Ears – Pedal Fuzz on BE2018
And while our experience with Knoxville was nothing like the Simpsons, its still worthy finish our roundup with this clip
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