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 …
Dave Wyndorf on Hawkwind – X In Search of Space (1971)
I bought X In Search of Space the week it came out, which allows some unpleasant conclusions to be drawn about my age. I got the album at ‘Jack’s Music Shop’ in Red Bank/New Jersey. Bestseller records were displayed prominently and promoted, but Hawkwind barely had any press and didn’t get much attention. So I …
An Argument with a Hipster Troll: Why Psychedelic Music Does Not Begin and End with the Beatles
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 …
Escape, Mystery, Psychological Transformations: An Interview with Jacco Gardner
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 …