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 …
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 …
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 …
There are a few candidates for this question, but one of my absolutely favorite records is Remain In Light by the Talking Heads. It is an album I didn’t understand when I listened to it for the first time in the beginning of the 80s. Back then, I was living in a rural small-town that …
