Can you love an album you’ve never heard? I suppose it’s possible if your favourite artist puts out a new album, you loved the last one and they have a history of not disappointing you. But what if you’ve never heard of them? I’m not sure how I stumbled across Exit North, probably through that […]
Ten years on from their breakthrough album Tin Drum, members of Japan reconvened for this lovely one off reunion. Bravely not cashing in on the Japan name despite the success of the single Ghosts, reaching No.5 on the UK chart in 1981, it seems that David Sylvian had moved on. In the ten years since Japan […]
I wouldn’t normally just repost something that I wrote two years ago. But then circumstances have dictated that I do just that. Tomorrow morning at 8.44 I take the train from Penzance to London. On to Warsaw and a connecting flight to Yerevan in Armenia where I will play with Anekdoten on Sunday night – […]
The haunting beauty of this album will transport you to the land of melancholy and sadness but through your tears you will be utterly moved, struck by the overwhelming feeling of the profound as the fingers of the ancients caress you from beyond the centuries, tantalising you with the despair of human emotion. The duduk is an […]
The glam Japan, and although singer David Sylvian (real name David Batt) carefully moulded his image and his voice to suits his aspirations, the Rock And Roll extravaganza he created with his Catford school friends had New York Dolls, Roxy Music and Bowie fans digging in their closets again for their Mum’s discarded old blouses and […]
Arty Japanese/American New Yorkers release their new album Barragán on September 2nd. Two singles have appeared so far, No More Honey and Dripping. Blonde Redhead are a three piece with twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace on drums and guitar/vocals respectively and guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Kazu Makino. No More Honey, the first single is sung by Makino and Dripping by Amedeo Pace […]