I remember. I remember that hot July day when you died. It was the summer of love for everyone else. It was the summer when I lost my love. It was a sad summer. I could not eat because I missed you. I could not sleep because I missed you. In the autumn, I felt …
My last article was about the beast that is the guitar solo, the reason I got into rock’n’roll at all. I wrote a lot about how the solo came about and what it means for rock in general. I was just reading the article, as you do as an egomaniac, narcissistic writer, and just had …
2020 has been a musical hunger year where most artists degraded their records to ‘products’ and delayed their releases because Corona stole the show, and the cash. Not just for the artists and crews, but also for fans it has been a massively fucked up year with no live culture and little new music being …
Born in 1942 (the same year of birth as guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who was influenced lyrically by Mayfield), Curtis Mayfield began his career with the R&B group The Impressions. Curtis Mayfield was one of the first African American artists to address the Civil Rights Movement in his lyrics in “Keep On Pushing” (released in 1964, …
Legend of Hell House (Delia Derbyshire & Brian Hodgson)One of the most haunting horror movie soundtracks because of the experimental genius Delia Derbyshire (born May 5, 1937). Cobwebbed organs, rhythmic synthesizers, and an array of erotic, goosebump-inducing, hair-raising electronically altered ghost voices that get under your skin. “Seven Bowls” (Aphrodite’s Child)Although only one minute and …
“Dark Shadows Theme” (Robert Cobert)This is the perfect introductory track for any and every Halloween playlist. Robert Cobert (appropriately born on October 26, 1924), composed this ghostly, iconic, shivering score with trembling theremin for the Gothic TV show Dark Shadows in 1966. It conjures images of the clammy Collinwood mansion and stormy, windswept seashores. “It …
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of Russia’s most fierce and unique contemporary directors. Through acclaimed films like The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007) and Elena (2001), he has used a series of blissful audiovisual and thematic ingredients: the movement of a camera that embraces an imposing stage, the role of nature and religion …
On June 10, 1914, the same month that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, leading later that summer to the “Great War” (World War I) in Europe, on the other side of the Atlantic, in a tiny town named Engelberg, Arkansas, Ida Layton was born. On October 27, 1914, back across the Atlantic in Swansea, Dylan …
Sharing the pure discovery of new music and sound. Can you imagine anything more important? Or have we forgotten our higher purpose? (Honestly… it can’t be a good idea to start a review with a series esoteric questions. What am I to do? Begin again?). There is something intimate, even sensual about sharing new music with …
After my first magic mushroom psilocybin psychedelic experience at the age of nineteen, I decided that my screen name should be Graveyard Poet. There were three inspirations for this name at the end of my teenage years: 1.) the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (whose birthday was the day before …
