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 …
All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. -Travis Bickle The New York of Travis Bickle, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski is real- Byzanz 2.0, a modern Moloch/Metropolis literally build on …
Let’s get something right straight from the beginning. I have a fervent dislike of, specifically American and British Prog Rock or Progressive Art Rock. Dislike? Why am I being so polite? Fuck… I hate it. Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes, and, God help me, Genesis. It’s pure evil. There’s something about all those complex, pastoral …
Music is a fascinating beast. Twisting and turning, contorting when you least expect. And the changes, the innovations are going to happen when very few are looking. And just when you think it’s all been said and done. It bites back and something new comes form seemingly nowhere. Since making his mark on popular music, …
The civilization of the modern West appears in history as a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one that has developed along purely material lines, and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincedes with the so-called Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it …
When working with certain forms of experimental music, it often seems that the artist is only partially responsible for the sound of the final output. It may still be their vision of the music, I would never dispute that. Nevertheless, so many external factors play a role in the development that is difficult to control …
I’m not here to be the light for anybody’s darkness- I’m burning for my own pleasure. Ibrahim Tatlises Every country has its Pavarotti, although not all of them are necessarily shining in posh opera houses. Having the same voice range as the heavy, scarfed tenor from Modena, Ibrahim Tatlıses can certainly be labeled the Turkish …
Damnation at the Soul Impression The Soul Impression was the perfect place for Roy and Hoche Szakolczay to set up as the base of operations in Southern California. The kind of club that attracted members of the Hollywood Hill’s wealthy and trendy jet-set who were always looking for creative, interesting, and wasteful activities to blow …
Just let me forget and die The Simple Minds are an easy target, because their essence and typical audience is already manifested within their bandname: it’s mind-numbing music for simple minds. But this band and its pathetic tunes show a shockingly frequent recurrence in my life, which I do not understand- but it fucks me …
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 …
