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 […]
Moddi is a Norwegian artist, well-known for his political views and his beautiful music. A singer/songwriter who also happily interprets other people’s songs – Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers comes to mind. But he doesn’t just cover other artists, well-known for their exquisite beauty. It’s the message of Army Dreamers that brought him to the song […]
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 […]
The last post on his website was six years ago, his music reaches from dense complex grooves, raw innovation to eccentricity. I love an intellectual with a self deprecating sense of humour, Czukay’s and his former band CAN’s massive influence on me and the world is hard to gauge. Here he is in 1979 riding […]
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 […]
Andy Shauf is a Canadian singer/songwriter and multi- instrumentalist from Saskatchewan. He plays most of the instruments on this, his third album The Party, including clarinet which features in the intro of the opening track featured here as a video. The Magician is a retro slow pulse, lilting its way towards the mid-seventies calmly reaching […]