From Berlin to Frankfurt and today venturing into Bonn to pick up Olivia’s violin from the repair shop. It rained (again) and driving and then walking through the streets of this city, I notice a rather large leaning towards Classical Music. It is of course the birthplace of Beethoven and the deathplace of Robert Schumann […]
One might claim that the reason why we know about the music of Iceland is because of Björk via the Sugarcubes. When we heard Birthday (1987) from their Life’s Too Good album released in 1988 we fell in love with her voice and her persona and waited for the inevitable – The Sugarcubes’ split in 1992. […]
Andy Newman was a member of the classic short-lived and inspired musical accident that was Thunderclap Newman. They were produced by Pete Townshend, released on Track records and responsible for one of the great songs of the sixties, Something In The Air, written by drummer, singer/songwriter and Pete Townshend’s chauffeur, Speedy Keen. The song was […]
Jeff Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert will oversee the release of unreleased Jeff Buckley recordings on a new album called, You And I expected in March. The album consists of mostly covers recorded in 1993 in New York. A video has appeared for a cover of The Smiths’ I Know It’s Over and an audio version of […]
It’s November 2nd, El Dia De Los Muertos and today is the day that Mexico is the only place in the world to be. Some years ago I went to the Day Of The Dead festival in Oaxaca in Southern Mexico and having just spent a week in Mexico City with wonderful friends Juan, Ale, Alexis and […]
I’m never bored, ever! How could I be? We are surrounded by rich cultural delights like this, a performance passionately executed by the star of the show, the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a Pakistani Qawwali superstar with a voice that must surely have been given to him as a spell. (The other singers here […]