Pussy Riot must be one of the most well-known bands in the world that don’t actually release records or sell tickets for live shows. But then they aren’t exactly a band, more a political collective, still, they do make music and it helps tremendously in pushing their cause. Of the clips below, the first, Organs, is a visceral modern […]
Steven Wilson releases a new album, To The Bone, on 18th August. Pariah is the first available track, a lighter more accessible sound and a duet with Israeli singer Ninet Tayeb. This isn’t Ninet’s first appearance on a Steven Wilson album. She appears on Routine and Ancestral from Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015). She also appears on […]
Yesterday I posted songs called World Of Pain and We’re Going Wrong, on a lighter note, winding our way through the valleys and the beautiful scenery, relaxing into the bucolic setting, the singing accents and of beautiful voices – we find ourselves in Wales for an unlikely sound echoing through the fields in melodious waves. […]
In this series I am investigating Chilean music from the past and present. One of the interesting aspects of this is the awareness of new bands from a country that most know little of. Unheard musical riches easily flounder not just in your country but in every country in the world, struggling against commercialism, fighting for attention, gems […]
Sounding something like a soundtrack to a freaked out experimental sixties movie, including sudden abrupt scene changes, this album is essential to anyone that has fantasized about painting their girlfriend in the colours of the rainbow. Infectious grooves and anachronistic guitar sounds, sound effects, drones and sci-fi warbles, tremolo fuzz and primitive drum machines, glued […]
Today I will leave my generous hosts, the Dibowskis in the small village of Bruchhausen in North Rhine, Westphalia near Bonn in Germany. I will take a train from Siegburg to Frankfurt and then catch a plane to Madrid where I will transfer on to a flight to Santiago in Chile. When I get there […]