Alexander Hendrix 1952-2010 Rest in peace. God bless the Mothership Hendrix and all who sail with it.
A very fun album by Boyd Rice (NON) and Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade/Coil/Current 93). This is unlike anything else I’ve heard by Boyd Rice, and even features him singing instead of just doing his usual spoken-word performances (but there are spoken-word pieces here, too). It’s a rather kitsch collection of cover versions of songs from [...]
This album is amazing, and increases in intensity as it goes on. If you’ve only heard early albums like Horse Rotorvator and Love’s Secret Domain, you need to get this to find out what Coil were really about. It was released during what John Balance referred to as their “moon musick” period, and it is [...]
I had a short conversation with Vitor about Celtic music yesterday, so I figured it would be a good idea to post something here. This is one of the best folk albums ever made. Alan Stivell is a musician from Brittany, and he is pretty much single-handedly responsible for resurrecting the Celtic harp, an instrument [...]
Don’t call me Mark Chapman. Happy April 1st! Yours faithfully, in love and sincerity, Ruggero My thanks and love go out to Thee Brad Miller on this fine day. Five PTV albums you must hear: – Live in Heaven (Chaotic and very psychedelic. It’s from 1987, but some of the material being performed here turned [...]
My favourite Swans album, which I mentioned in passing when I posted How I Loved You by The Angels of Light last week. Unlike most of their other albums, it isn’t longer than it needs to be. It’s only around 40 minutes long, which is the ideal length for me. And I know that Angels [...]
This was my introduction to Daniel Johnston, but I think I’d already heard Half Japanese and Jad Fair before listening to this. But that doesn’t matter, because it’s totally different to most of the Half Japanese albums I’ve heard due to the absence of David Fair (he is important!). It was a good point of [...]
I remember first listening to Swans last year with very high expectations. I’d seen people on last.fm with great charts who’d managed to accumulate thousands of Swans scrobbles, and I found them really underwhelming when I finally got around to listening to them (I started with Various Failures, because Fred Frith plays on some of [...]
This is a strange album. It is France Gall’s psychedelic record, since it was obligatory for all musicians to release one during the late-1960s. I haven’t heard many others from French musicians, except for Bonnie & Cylde by Gainsbourg and Bardot, so I don’t know how prevalent the trend was over there. But I hope [...]
I love Psychic TV. You can probably work that out by glancing at my last.fm charts. I used to prefer Throbbing Gristle, but PTV’s music has far more variation and I’m starting to find it more fulfilling and interesting than most of TG’s output. I shared this link with Jared earlier, so I figured I [...]
