6 July 1926: The Guardian’s Eric Blom reviews the first London performance of Erik Satie’s Jack in the Box, one year after the composer’s death Erik Satie: a life less ordinary M Serge Diaghileff, ...

The absurd titles of Erik Satie’s compositions would provoke howls of laughter at concerts in early 20th-century Paris. Some critics condemned Satie’s eccentricities — but a new book argues that his ...

In Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite, a study of the avant-garde pianist, Ian Penman resists the urge to categorise Satie neatly, avoiding the reductive tendencies that often plague biographies. Satie’s ...

Satie tried to create music that didn't need to be listened to by anyone.I don't know the title of the song. But I know this ...

The spare, haunting melodies of composer and pianist Erik Satie have inspired a wide range of musicians, from his contemporary Claude Debussy to The Velvet Underground's John Cale. Guitarists Jonathan ...

I fell backwards through Brian Eno to Erik Satie a long time ago and I’ve never really returned. It was 1986, I was playing in a Melbourne band, part of whose schtick was ambience, when I found a ...

This is starting to look like the year of Erik Satie. How else could there be two magnificent albums dedicated to his music? The first was Dan Willis and Velvet Gentlemen's The Satie Project (Daywood ...

The music critic Ian Penman has structured his new book about the great French composer and rascally agent provocateur Erik Satie in three parts, in the manner of classic Satie compositions such as ...

Once Igor Levit starts playing Erik Satie at 10 a.m. on 24 April at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, he can expect to be there for a long time. Satie’s Vexations is a piece that looks innocent enough, like ...

Satiesfictions: Promenades with Erik Satie was directed by Anne-Kathrin Peitz. What is the runtime of Satiesfictions: Promenades with Erik Satie? Satiesfictions: Promenades with Erik Satie has a ...