Albums have to be vinyl for me, not cd’s or downloads. When I am writing songs for my own albums, I always imagine at which point the listener has to turn around the record. And when I think of the artwork, I always imagine a big gatefold cover. Because that’s how I listen to music: …
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 – …
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 …
