Halloween…and as October comes to an end, this will be my last post on the theme of death. There are few smarter talents out there, few more perceptive narrators that can articulate the human condition, the absurdity of life, the rules we pander to and our legacy in death, than the inimitable Roy Harper. On […]
Musical protest comes in many shapes and sizes – Holly Near’s voice alone in a room in front of a live audience or John Lennon sitting at a piano in the seventies, Donovan with an acoustic guitar and Buffy Sainte-Marie’s lyrics in the sixties, or Nina Simone with a Jazz band or perhaps Billie Holiday […]
Dead Can Dance’s Host Of The Seraphim appears on the soundtrack to Ron Fricke’s beautifully shot non-narrative documentary film, Baraka. Fricke was the cinematographer on Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi (music Philip Glass) and this was Fricke continuing the experiment on high quality 70mm with a soundtrack that included Dead Can Dance, Indian violinist, L. Subramaniam, David Hykes eerie […]
From the early eighties till now Current 93 have been releasing their experimental, mystical folk albums to a core audience. The band is the artistic vehicle of David Tibet with regular contributors Stephen Stapleton from Nurse With Wound, Michael Cashmore from Nature And Organisation, Douglas P. from Death In June and Steve Ignorant from Crass, […]
Fait Accompli was the first single from Curve’s debut album Doppelgänger released on Anxious Records in 1992. The band consisted of Toni Halliday on vocals and Dean Garcia on guitars with producer Alan Moulder adding his studio skills to the band’s sound. I loved this song and video when it came out and still do. Previous […]
Mellow Candle were an Irish Progressive Acid Folk group that released one album, Swaddling Songs in 1972 and henceforth faded into obscurity. The line-up on this fascinating, rare and valuable album was Clodagh Simonds and Alison O’Donnell on vocals, Dave Williams on guitar, Frank Boylan on bass and William Murray on drums. When I played […]