April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the album Yeti (1970) by Amon Düül II, so I celebrated and commemorated by posting my thoughts about this album and sharing a humorous meme where Charlie Brown is about to listen to Yeti. The other character has a thought bubble (“Always Charlie plays strange records, why can’t …
You have expressed in past interviews that you prefer playing live rather than recording in a studio. This fits with your vision of music as a synergy between audience and band. Also, your lyrics and vocals emphasize improvisation and repetition. It’s not so much that I prefer one or the other–it is that the concert …
Jacco Gardner is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who has been recording and releasing music since 2012. His albums include Cabinet of Curiosities (2013), Hypnophobia (2015), and Somnium (2018). His music has been described as “sonic puzzles” (Under the Radar), “eerie, retro-futurist sound worlds” (Q Magazine), and “an engulfing sonic swirl, recalling the enveloping work of Cluster …
Released on March 20, 2000, Broadcast’s cinematic debut The Noise Made By People is a song cycle which tiptoes on a delicate balance between the labyrinthine contours of electronic experimentation (this is Warp records, of course) and the crystalline elegance of film scores (especially the swinging basslines and jazzy percussion of the ’60s.) And, most …
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Change of the Guard” (Kamasi Washington)An accurately named opening track from the equally appropriately named mammoth, monolithic triple record The Epic, this is incredible jazz for a new generation. Bandleader Kamasi …
Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Place at the End of the Street” (Cotton Jones)Perhaps the standout song on the band’s 2010 record Tall Hours in the Glowstream, “Place At The End of the Street” best epitomizes …
In 1966, Luna 9 and Luna 10 (Soviet Union spacecraft) were the first human made satellites to land on and orbit Earth’s moon. In December 1968 and May 1969, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 (American spacecraft) were the first missions with astronauts to orbit Earth’s moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed. Neil Armstrong …
Jesse Sykes was born on July 17, 1967 in Mount Kisco, New York. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design before moving to Seattle in 1990. In Seattle, she met guitarist Phil Wandscher and they formed a band together: Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter.From 2002 – 2011, Sykes and Wandscher released …
Vol. 2 (Night Trips) 1. “Contact” (Brigitte Bardot) Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris. She was an actress in many famous French films and became an internationally renowned sex symbol in the 1950s-1960s. During her fleeting love affair with Serge Gainsbourg (1967-1968), she also briefly began a career as a singer. …
