The second Suicide album is produced by Ric Ocasek from The Cars. He was a big fan. I think he made them a little more layered. There’s this amazing use of professional synthesizers, but it still retains a lot of weirdness and toughness. It’s not the record that everyone thinks of when you think of …
Sal Canzonieri of Electric Frankenstein talks about influences and the music scene, Rat Fink & Monster Art, the pioneering days of the internet & MP3 and what it meant to run one of the first 45 websites overall, how the music industry tried to suppress the new rock’n’roll scene, and why he is a well-known …
This was Gainsbourg’s last studio album before he died. Gainsbourg always adapted to the times; here he went deeper into dance and tight ‘80s funk type grooves with his songs. On top of this, he had refined his songwriting to its most articulate – the lyrics were surreal and very tongue in cheek, more so …
Italian Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866 -1924) said that “music is sonorous air”. A vibration that we experience without being seen with the human eye. John Lyndon, “Some ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it”. The Roscoe Mitchell Sextet starts a …
He first made a name for himself as a script-writer by copying works from two great directors of the time Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, changing the names of the characters and some situations and presented them to his father as his own works, which made his father believe he was a genius. From …
The Cosmic Dead’s 2013 The Exalted King is a case in point- slick, commercial, AOR music is not going to be part of the dialogue here. The album is a hard rock space-map into the deepest and darkest end of the new inter-space revolution. Inter-space is defined as the emptiness or void between two known …
I discovered Noveller alias Sarah Lipstate when I was looking up something else for my radio show. Because I was already at it, I ended up searching for other exciting newcomers and was specifically looking into the field of electronic music. At one point, a little square with her picture and name turned up, and …
A raga consists of at least five notes, and each raga provides the musician with a musical framework within which to improvise. Like eyes of the dead, puddles from an earlier rain mirrored the pale, lifeless sky of another November dawn. Shivering in a thin, parachute-silk jacket, collar up, red beret atop his curly mane, twenty-five-year-old Angelo streaked south …
I’m a sucker for a guitar solo, I love ’em !! Doesn’t matter what, where. How or when! My parents didn’t really listen to music at all, so I had no real musical upbringing. My older sister started to actively listen to music when I was 10 or so, but she heard a lot of …
One of the worst presents I ever got was a copy of Thom ‘with an H’ Yorke’s Anima. Released in June 2019, Anima was instantly hyped as a “masterpiece“, followed by an aggressive PR campaign involving Netflix streaming a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson where Thom Yorke plays the lead “in a …
