One of the best things that ever happened to me was discovering Gentle Giant all these years ago. I’ve had all their albums since the seventies, I have the DVDs too, but sadly I never got to see them play live. I can’t quite figure out how I missed them. I guess I was younger […]
The music today has been soooo now! I started with Lux Prima which is last year’s collaboration between Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and producer Danger Mouse. It was way less angular than I expected it. Karen O wasn’t scary at all and Danger Mouse wasn’t sonically dangerous. It was actually pretty mellow, like […]
The great thing about a daily blog is that one day it’s this kind of thing and another day it’s about the stripy fish that swim in shoals in the pacific ocean or Japanese Psychedelic Rock. Or possibly even this next tangent. Classical music, who buys it? I remember going into HMV or was it […]
Music today has been all about Japanese late sixties and early seventies CDs that live in the archive. In the sixties and seventies the Japanese were seriously influenced by Western sixties Pop and seventies Rock and out of that came some fascinating albums. (They often covered songs by their influences.) One of the better known […]
Music today started with an exploration with that incredible and terrible tool Spotify. The beast that leads me to artists that I may never have discovered. In my case when I can afford it, I use Spotify to seek out the artists whose records I would like to buy. So today I explored Danish singer […]
Music today has been exclusively John Martyn. Bless The Weather from 1971, Solid Air from 1973, Inside Out from 1973 and Sunday’s Child from 1975. Little known facts about John Martyn: His real name was Iain McGeachy and both of his parents were opera singers, it explains a lot. A terrible drunk and an amazing […]