In 1991, Adrian Thaws, better known as the smoky-voiced Tricky, was at a crossroad in his musical career. His contributions on pioneering trip-hop group Massive Attack’s legendary debut Blue Lines had been an introduction into the potential of his talent and capabilities. However, he felt creatively ignored by his frequent collaborators at Massive Attack, frustrated …
On Universal Beings, Jazz drummer & producer Makaya McCraven has crafted together a series of gigs from around the globe: London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, using a different grouping of musicians for each gig / city). The live recordings were then pulled into the studio for processing. The result is completely new and …
We currently live in deeply sad times in which we are overly subjected to electronic devices. “Her” is a monumental film by the interesting director Spike Jonze, where he tells us the story of Theodore, a man who falls in love with a computer voice. Theodore works for a company that hires professional writers who …
When the Talking Heads finished touring for their equally masterful 1979 album Fear Of Music, the band decided to take a small break to explore other creative ideas. In this creative intermission, two of the band’s members, married couple Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, were having doubts about staying in Talking Heads, especially as frontman …
by Mark Lager
We are listening to the city at night, but we hear only the nothingness of silence. We are back inside the church as the humming of the organ and the tentative, two-note guitar strum return us to the revival.
What was this truth so deep and profound that it could not be spoken in words but only carried on the night wind through the streets in acts of silence?
It was revolution.
It was that which is called peaceful.
by Blake Thomas
Before Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg’s muse was French pop princess Brigitte Bardot, and his work with her was a mutation of swirling chanson with slight psychedelic leanings. But when ol’ Serge turned his gnarled eye towards the Mod-era British model and actress, all bets were off. The two were like a perverse, twisted Sonny & Cher; but instead of warming hearts, they lit a dark fire, like some erotic demons possessed with sexual desire.
bUniversal Pictures producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown purchased the film rights for JAWS in 1973, before the book by Peter Benchley was published and became a huge bestseller. They were fascinated by the thrilling plot, though in retrospect they admitted that if they had given the novel a second read, they would have …
by Shawn Ciavattone Found this album (executive producer Derrick May) last weekend, a beautiful and unique collection of (Detroit) Techno / Deep House. With it’s cool & sexy vibe it reminded me of someone special… “It’s good smooching music, isn’t it?” That was her only reply. Tina was a clerk in my local Indie – …
by Saliha Enzenauer
Ian.
The nocturnal snowscape looked grey through the fog. It seemed to Ian that he had been wandering through the night for years, not feeling the cold anymore.
He remembered other lifes. Lifes in which he kept hearing the distant call while he was walking trough the distractions on his path. The voice wouldn’t go away, no matter how hard he tried to numb himself down. The voice would echo in his songs.
He remembered lifes that he had ended, unfulfilled.
Now he was in a place where everything came together, the earthly and rational world, heaven and mystery, the world of ghosts and spirits and dreams. It was the place to chase the distant call down in this center and edge of the world. The time had come…
by Mark Lager
Cotton Jones create music that sounds old and lived in: times spent wandering the backroads, the highways and byways, of America; times spent alone in the wilderness; times that seem out of our time and summoned from the past. Yet even though they are extraordinarily underrated and at the outset placed in the genre categories of “lo-fi”, “indie folk”, and “alternative country”, they transcend these boundaries and are a rarity for our generation: a band which wears its heart honestly on its sleeve and stands on the shoulders of giants but does not steal from them like the majority of contemporary groups.
