Listening to trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist Jaimie Branch’s newest release, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise is like making an investment in the visionaries, believers and dreamers of tomorrow. It’s the discovery of music this inspiring and important which makes all this music collecting a worthwhile endeavour. Fly or Die II functions …
In the early months of my arrival in New York in the late 60s, I learned that a college friend, Parker, whom I hadn’t seen in a few years, a conga drummer in a jazz group, was playing at a club up in Harlem. Still in my delusional stage as a writer collecting life experiences, …
There is really no way to do a list of my favorite albums with any rationality. I do only have about 2,500 vinyls. There is a possibility there. I’ll look through the albums and pull together a list of those I have re-bought or am in the process of re-buying on CD. I have little …
My righteous dictatorship in Britain was in full bloom: I was an unrelenting, visionary and hard-working empress, I restored law and order, put the British nation back into line, and started a European war in order to kill Steve Bannon, who was working on a world conspiracy here. My vest as the highest military commander …
I had come to the big city to serve an apprenticeship in life – and fill the void of experience I lacked- so that I might have something to write about. I was ready to suffer for my art, but not too much. Little did I know the depths to which I would sink. My …
The TX9000 understood that it wasn’t possible for its feelings to be real. Any sense of happiness, revenge, or even jealously was a creation of the Tyrell Corporation using the most advanced AI technology known. Whatever was “felt” within its hardware was merely a programmer’s description of a human emotion. Nevertheless, this programmed emotional responses …
All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard. Michel Houellebecq, To Stay Alive The adolescent years are crucial for the development of your spiritual and intellectual lineage, and your future track along it. You are and will always remain what you read and …
I still remember with fervent sadness the day that David Bowie left this world. The man who always created and looked for constant innovation, an artist in all the meaning and extension of the word, the man who expanded his catalogue and his music like no other one has done before. I find it very difficult …
The sad and touching story of sexually challenged Norwegian ex-teens coming to terms with instant gratification! We eat, drink and smoke cigars, discussing Celine, Schopenhauer, Wilhelm Reich, Bertolucci’s “1900” and Hanoi Rocks. Men of the world, fearless intellectuals in the twilight. Happy-Tom: We (Turbonegro aka TRBNGR aka Stierkampf) spent the summer of 1995 wisely. We went on our ‘Nambling …
Two albums have changed my life forever. About one I have already spoken very often: the recordings of the french Jazz musician Django Reinhardt, who was capable of virtuoso top performances on the guitar despite his completely mutilated hand. That gave me the courage to continue my music career at the time when I lost …
