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Music today has been mostly the classical channel on the TV, a calm background to a crazy past week and trying to settle in. So today we are listening to one of Olivia’s favourites, Pavane by Fauré. Piece Of The Daze The musical musings in this post are an excerpt from my daily blog, TO […]
Hey All, I’m very happy to announce that on Record Store Day 2019 and after nearly two decades of floating in digital space, I finally see the vinyl release of Hanging Out In Heaven. It will be a blue-tinged double record, set with two extra tracks – Queen In Her Jeans and Dressed Up As […]
One of my most impossible tasks is listing my favourite albums. As soon as I commit, I remember that I forgot something. So when I was asked to do this list for [Sic] Magazine, I was hesitant to get involved. But then I heard the Exit North album and I thought this really is without […]
Three graves, two together, the other ten paces away. Today Olivia, myself and friends Brigitte and Mathias finally found the resting places of Holger Czukay and his wife, and close by Jaki Liebezeit – two members of CAN and Holger Czukay’s wife and collaborator Ursula, known as U-She and Ursa Major. They are buried here in Germany in […]
It seemed rather depressing to enter into a new year with the death of an old hand, but as Dean Ford left us on the last day of 2018 one cautiously wonders who will be leaving us as we move into 2019? One other noticeable thing for me is just how forgotten a lot of […]
Less than a week after I posted about one of my musical heroes, Holger Czukay, he died. It was so disturbing to me having just spent a few days playing his records, talking about him and even suggesting that we should get in contact with him and go and visit him as he lived in […]