The In Deep Music Archive is an eclectic collection of music in many forms. An historical and contemporary library of all available physical formats - Vinyl, CD, Cassette, Reel to Reel tape, 8 Track, 78RPM, VHS, DVD, Laser discs, reference books, encyclopedias, catalogues, biographies and magazines. Collected by Marty Willson-Piper over the past 50 years, the archive has grown into this wonderful collection through a life of scouring the record stores around the world, but also through generous donations from friends, fans and record labels alike. Any funding goes directly towards either running costs or increasing the content. Our ambition for the archive is to create a musical culture centre with a small venue, that will also be used for music lessons and workshops and as a meeting place for music lovers in a unique atmosphere.
Music today has been Love and Rockets‘ Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven (1985). Oddly left of centre and immediately accessible. Nursery rhyme melodies and angular guitars and acoustics, fuzz and fluffy hair, sing-along verses and choruses as if the local boat club had started their own group with the boy scouts chanting irreverent singalongs. A […]
Music today has been the debut album by Marta Del Grandi, Until We Fossilize, which I discovered a few weeks ago and went back to today. Originally a jazz vocalist born in Italy she now has a more arty feel. Strange sounds, sweet melodies, odd and simple, I’m hesitant to compare her to anybody else, […]
Music today has been the last Siouxsie and the Banshees studio album, their tenth, The Rapture (1995), and starting with that rather lightweight single O Baby. With grunge in full swing, a potential new audience wasn’t looking here for music. This rebellion was 17 years old and if you were 17 in 1995 you were […]
Music today was Siouxsie and the Banshees‘ tenth album, Superstition (1991). It starred their biggest US hit with Kiss Them For Me which reached No. 23 on the US charts – Siouxsie in the video looking very sophisticated, quite different to the punk days, all grown up. Talvin Singh adds India on the tabla. I […]
Music today was Siouxsie and the Banshees‘ album number nine, Peepshow (1988), and I realised that apart from the first track Peek-a-Boo, I didn’t know the album at all. I do know it’s a new guitarist in Jon Klein and the addition of multi-instrumentalist McCarrick. It’s back to Mike Hedges in the producer/engineer chair but […]
Music today was the Siouxsie and the Banshees covers album that shows how broad their tastes actually were, dispelling the myth that all the punk bands hated the indulgent past. It’s great to see unlikely songs like Roxy Music’s Sea Breezes (1972) in there and Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity‘s This Wheel’s On […]
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