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.
Part 1: In The Pleasure Groove by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono It is a hot summer night and I go to a Duran Duran concert. I enter the arena and fight my way to the front row to see my Simon. The lights go down and ‘Planet Earth’ strikes up. I can’t hear myself screaming, …
by Shawn Ciavattone It’s not often that a piece of music can be called ‘brave’. Bravery is saved for those rare instances of assuming responsibly and acting out of selflessness. And sometimes music and musicians create such bold and powerful statements that they too can be brave. Tim Hecker’s ‘Virgins’ is such an album. Often …
There’s a freak-out brewing… by Shawn Ciavattone It’s that sleeve, right? So cool – the original illustration was by Gustav Doré for Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. How could the music possibly live up to that sleeve? Well, it does! Radical, joyous, inclusive, psychedelic, hard rock, innovative – a real freak-scene. No other psych-rock album ever grabs …
