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Iggy Pop Miles Davis Music The Record That Changed My Life

Iggy Pop on Miles Davis’ ‘Sketches Of Spain’ (1960)

This sadness does something to you. I remember exactly how I bought Sketches of Spain in a store for used vinyl at Mercer Street corner Bleecker in New York, for $3,99. It was the time after CD’s had conquered the market and people sold their vinyl records in order to replace them by discs. That’s …

Mark Hollis Mark Lager Music Talk Talk

Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis and His Experimental, Innovative Legacy on ‘Spirit of Eden’

It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play. Miles Davis At the age of 32, Mark Hollis had achieved commercial success with his band Talk Talk’s first three albums, which combined the new wave synthpop of the 1980s with subtle art rock arrangements. This was not the style of music that …

Gary McFarland Mark Lager Music

Gary McFarland’s Cinematic Forgotten Genius

Gary McFarland is a forgotten name by most music listeners. This is a tragedy since he was a bit of a genius- an arranger/conductor for jazz musicians, a cinematic composer of his own recordings, and a producer of a psychedelic hidden gem. Gary McFarland (born October 23, 1933) began his career arranging and conducting jazz …

Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda Gatefold
Alice Coltrane Mark Lager Music

Alice Coltrane and Her Cosmic Healing – On the 50th Anniversary of “Journey in Satchidananda”

I remember. I remember that hot July day when you died. It was the summer of love for everyone else. It was the summer when I lost my love. It was a sad summer. I could not eat because I missed you. I could not sleep because I missed you. In the autumn, I felt …

Music Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell – Sound (1966)

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 …

Ghost Funk Orchestra Music

Ghost Funk Orchestra – Walk Like a Motherfucker (2018)

Sometimes you discover music that is a pure injection of electric energy into your day. Ghost Funk Orchestra’s Walk like a Motherfucker (2018) is exactly the kind of joyous, self-assured, even arrogant single that makes you want to strut your bad ass down the street. Don’t think of Travolta here- this is all Shaft. Roll …

Bohren & der Club of Gore Music

Bohren & der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue (2020)

What makes the music of Bohren & der Club of Gore so unsettling? It isn’t the dark, slow-core of this German trio- that would sound almost relaxing. And it isn’t the sparse instrumentation that crawls through each of these tracks. Absolutely not, this isn’t goth.   There is something much deeper to be found at …

Jaimie Branch Music

Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (2019)

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 …