Like the films of John Cassavetes, the music that Bo Harwood recorded is very special for reasons hard to explain. Raw, unrefined, yet holding tremendous emotional power within such simple musical structures, it beautifully complimented the unique work Cassavetes and company were creating in front of the camera. “Over the years, it never really occurred …
I was born on May 15, 1948 in the small town of Melton in Suffolk, England. I studied painting at the nearby Ipswich Civic College and at the Winchester School of Art from 1966-1969. I explored abstract expressionist painting and wrote poetry. 1975. I was walking across a crowded intersection and was struck by a …
Comus is considered a debauched and decadent god of nocturnal revelry, son of Dionysus (in Greek mythology) or Bacchus (in Roman mythology), the god of drunkenness and wine. Comus is the character whose name is the title of a masque written by the poet John Milton presented in 1634 at Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, on …
They were never really embraced by the east and west coast intelligentsia. Rolling Stone magazine wasn’t a friend to the band, nor was the hip alternative magazine from their home state, Cream. Their sound was a throbbing monolith, built on a pure, primitive drive that was closer to a voodoo ceremony than a peace happening. …
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light. Mephistopheles, from Faust. Wolfgang Voigt is back with a most complex and powerful work, cementing his status as one of the most captivating contemporary artists, not just in the field of electronic music, but as conceptional …
Just that name “Vaporwave” was enough to turn me off. The aging hipster within making it very clear that I would have nothing to do with this internet creation. “Just a shiny plastic container with nothing inside”, I said defiantly. Without depth or feeling or humanity, this music was nothing I would be interested in …
Pink Floyd ~ “Cirrus Minor” (1969) Opening with one minute of dawn songbirds from the BBC sound effects library, David Gilmour’s slowly strummed acoustic guitar, Richard Wright’s misty organ, and Roger Waters’ poetic lyrics set the scene as David Gilmour sings about a pastoral spring paradise (“in a churchyard by a river, lazing in the …
(Dave Grohl expands his views on Paris, Texas for vinylwriters.com) Paris, Texas is the perfect album for a cold, gray Sunday morning on which you don’t want to leave the house and have time for yourself. Because the music is understated, you don’t have to focus on the album, you simply feel it- it can …
Jann Wenner’s boring biography Sticky Fingers is still an astonishing read because it is eye opening about the fact on how his Rolling Stone distilled and defined music history and basically laid down the rock canon with simultaneous corporate help from radio stations and major labels. The RS critics’ darlings were elevated into (super)star status …
Interview by Mark Lager What were your first experiences that made you decide to become musicians? Eva: I really don’t know if I decided to become a musician, it is just a path that is part of my life. Since I was a child I have enjoyed listening to music and I have found myself …
