Showing posts with label talk talk. Show all posts
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Sunday 3 May 2020

Log #188 - Paddling In The Shallows

Eddy Bamyasi


Just the one new entry this week: David Sylvian's mate Fennesz's sumptuous Agora album released this time last year. It sounds like the cover - shimmering watery ambience washing up over sand. Just four tracks of around 9 or 10 minutes each it's fairly modest in ambient length terms. There is less of the glitchy guitar distortion made famous on his Endless Summer album with Fennesz opting for a more Enoesque sensibility.

The experimental musician’s sweeping, ambient album works in small, fascinating ways from moment to moment but has a cumulative force that is unlike anything he’s done in years.
Pitchfork (8.5)

There is just a doubt about this music. It sounds simple (like the Jam or OMD did when I was a school kid getting into prog rock). It's the sort of music I feel I could have a bash at on my own laptop - for instance I certainly couldn't reproduce Supper's Ready in a million years for goodness sake but a few drones - no problem! There is skill required of course, and ambient music contains many hidden delights not always evident on first listen, but I do figure a Physics or Computer Science degree would be more useful than a Music one.

Anyway that's beside the point. On hearing Agora one of my first reactions was "this is just the sort of music I want to make." Is that the same as "...want to hear"? Well, yes it is pretty much - I'd rather listen to Agora than Supper's Ready so that's all that matters really.


Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
DJ Vadim - Soundcatcher
Four Tet - Rounds
David Sylvian - Blemish
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (CD 1)
Fennesz - Agora



Saturday 25 April 2020

Log #187 - Moving Post Rock

Eddy Bamyasi

Still working through my Mark Hollis/David Sylvian phase. On the Hollis side we have the Talk Talk crossover album The Colour Of Spring which is growing on me rapidly. It's not as beautiful as their follow up Spirit Of Eden but contains some classy melodic pop pointing the way towards their new "post rock" direction. 

[Incidentally I was directed towards an album by a band called Slint (Spiderland) which was mentioned in the same breath as Spirit Of Eden as an equivalent "post rock" offering, um errr, it's ok but not in the same class pop pickers]

Want to know what post rock is, was? Here's a list featuring both Slint and Talk Talk. Honestly though I fail to see much resemblance between Talk Talk and Godspeed You! Dark Emperor for instance.

Turning to David Sylvian we have Blemish which I believe was his first truly experimental album coming in 2003, 4 years after the relatively straight forward Dead Bees On A Cake. Lots more to discover in this unusual sounding record. Apparently, not that I have noticed yet, the ambient instrumental album that featured in Log #185 Wandermude was based on this one. There is also a remix version of Blemish. I will be intrigued to play all 3 together at some future point. Blemish is further reviewed here.

Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
DJ Vadim - Soundcatcher
Four Tet - Rounds
David Sylvian - Blemish
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (CD 1)
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (CD2)

Summarising much of his best music up until the year 2000 Blemish is supplemented this week with a complete playing of the double Everything And Nothing which is a superb retrospective. Lush music brilliantly produced this is a great primer for new fans maintaining a pleasing continuity despite the range covered.

DJ Vadim's Soundcatcher is a superb lo-fi down tempo dubby mashup. Love it. Four Tet's Rounds is a little more reserved with some great melodies. Two top electronic pioneers. I haven't heard any better albums from either artist, so wondering if I have chanced upon their respective bests?

Sunday 19 April 2020

Log #186 - Two Hermetical Geniuses - Hollis and Sylvian

Eddy Bamyasi


Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin
Talk Talk - The Party's Over
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
David Sylvian - Everything And Nothing (CD2)

“I want to write stuff that you’ll be able to listen to in 10 years’ time”.

Mark Hollis

Notwithstanding the slightly overbearing 1986 drums Talk Talk's The Colour Of Spring was a groundbreaking album for the band signalling the way towards the two jazz rock ambient classics that would follow.

They only made 5 albums but 3 of them certainly achieved Hollis' aim and more.

The Party's Over (1982)
It's My Life (1984)
The Colour of Spring (1986)
Laughing Stock (1991)

Not a bad discography for a band who were compared to Duran Duran when they first started out (although this was more a marketing ruse than on account of any wishes of Hollis and his bandmates). Indeed many of the closest neighbours on the Talk Talk music map do relate more to their inception than their later albums:


Interestingly though David Sylvian does sneak into the chart over on the left hand side. I hadn't really related the two before this current run of magazine playing but the connection is now very obvious to me - Sylvian's Everything and Nothing is a brilliant retrospective which manages to cover many of his greatest and best known tunes up to the year 2000 (just before he started going much weirder) including some collaborations and Japan pieces, plus some outtakes and unreleased tracks for the dedicated fans too.

The Nitin Sawhney album (his only I possess) makes fleeting appearances at the blog, mainly on account of the marvellous Tides piano track.

Sunday 12 April 2020

Log #185 - A Wonder Of Mood, David Sylvian's Wandermüde

Eddy Bamyasi


Last week, although I liked it, I bemoaned the fact that David Sylvian's experimental Manafon album might have been better without singing. This week my wishes were granted with his 2013 follow up Wandermüde which turns out to be a pure ambient piece, with indeed no vocals. 



David Sylvian - Wandermüde
David Sylvian - Manafon
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Bonnie Prince Billy - Pond Scum

This instrumental collection is blended throughout and delivers cascades of haunting tones, flooded with pools of tranquil retreats and gentle showers of suspense.


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Wandermude (literally translated as "tired hiking" - not google translates finest hour Ed.) is indeed a gem of ambience, one of the nicest I've heard actually. The record is extremely still, consisting of percussion less drones that hardly change at all, just in very subtle ways. Most movement is heard on the final track Deceleration which is quite startling in comparison with its distorted guitar chords that sound just like Fennesz's work on Endless Summer. I've heard Sylvian has collaborated with the Austrian electronic maestro so no doubt it is him here too although it's very hard to find any information about Wandermüde anywhere.



The album is actually a collaboration between Sylvian and German sound artist Stephan Mathieu and I wonder how much Sylvian was involved actually as apparently the crux of the record is reworkings of Sylvian's Blemish album from 2003. Sounds intriguing and Blemish will definitely be one I'll be checking out next.


Sunday 5 April 2020

Log #184 - Sylvian Span

Eddy Bamyasi

Steeleye Span are another band, new to me, that cropped up through reading the excellent Electric Eden anthology of English music. A shout out on Twitter suggested Below The Salt was a good place to start.  At first it sounded a bit too folky for me but it gradually started to resonate as I tuned in to the Sandy Denny era Fairport Convention vibes.



Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
David Sylvian - Manafon
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Bonnie Prince Billy - Pond Scum


Manafon (a place in Wales) is a very unusual album. Top marks for David Sylvian doing something so left field it defines categorisation. But is it even music? It sounds like improvisations. In fact it sounds like avant garde ambient minimalism (with a jazz flavour) but with singing. Make of that what you will!


The parish of Manafon, Wales

For the first few listens I didn't really like it. But after a while I started to enjoy it, not in the sense of listening to music, but as an... experience.

But I wonder if it would be better just as instrumental music, like previously reviewed avant garde ambient albums by sound artists like Keith Berry and James Joys? Sylvian's very low key singing is sort of superfluous and distracting.

An interview with Sylvian reveals my impressions were well founded: "There was nothing written when we went into the studio – this was very much free improvisation. So, the selection of the group of musicians for each improvisation was paramount. I recognized on the day which pieces could work for me. The process was that I took the material away and then wrote and recorded the vocal line over in a couple of hours. So I couldn't analyze my contribution and that in a way was my form of improvisation – and I enjoyed the rapidity of response."

It sounds like the approach Van Morrison took with Astral Weeks

Genius or pretentious? I can't decide - it's certainly no Astral Weeks but nevertheless an intriguing listen which I will return to, along with some of Sylvian's other recent albums (Manafon dates from 2009).

Not a huge leap from David Sylvian to Talk Talk, especially when we are talk talking the band's final two albums; the "post-rock" masterpieces Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock - two albums of beautiful shimmering magnificent music topped by the late Mark Hollis's sensitive vocals.

More Bonnie Prince Billy listening in the player here with Pond Scum the 2016 offering of  BBC John Peel sessions, reworkings and covers, from this prolific artist aka Will Oldham. The renderings are stripped right back and thus even more relaxed and morose than usual.





Sunday 3 March 2019

The Magic Lives On - Mark Hollis and Talk Talk

Eddy Bamyasi
Sadly Mark Hollis, leader of the visionary Talk Talk, died earlier this week. Eddy revisits a review of the bands 2013 retrospective by Jude Rogers from the BBC archives.
Buried deep in the glitzy narratives of 1980s pop lies the gentler, stranger story of Talk Talk.

Led by Mark Hollis, the group began the decade as a synth-pop stadium prospect. The theory goes that then they took a quieter, more ambient route, spurred by 1988’s astonishing fourth LP, Spirit of Eden.

In recent years, the likes of Graham Coxon, Wild Beasts and The Maccabees have held up Spirit of Eden like a totemic text; at the time, Record Mirror’s Mark Hooper called it “the kind of record which encourages marketing men to commit suicide”.

Twenty-three years on, Hollis returned with Natural Order, his “companion piece” to 1990’s million-selling Natural History best-of. He oversaw the track choices, the order, the mastering and the artwork.

For fans, this reappearance was like the second coming – but that wouldn’t impress the man himself, who told The Wire in 1998 that he never enjoyed the “f***ing glorification”.

Natural Order runs chronologically, from 1982’s Have You Heard the News to 1991’s Taphead, taking us through a dream-world of B sides and album tracks. And what an astonishingly intimate, humane and honest place it out turns to be, revealing that this woozier, weirder side of Talk Talk was ever-present.

Hollis’ uncompromising voice still strikes first, like hot steel. Stylised and nasal, it should distance the listener, but it acts upon the senses like a magnet, eerily drawing the ear in.

The music surrounding it should also sound oddly tasteful. Period electronic-drums and polite, minor-key chord changes are everywhere – but they come together to make something more spiritual, more spectral, more meaningful.

Natural Order also plays like a latter-day prog record, really, although it doesn’t exist completely outside its era. Echoes of early Tears for Fears emerge in slow, stunning epics like April 5th. Ghosts of Joy Division’s Closer – sparse sounds and dramatic silences – lurk in For What It’s Worth. And John Cope has a melodic structure that late-1980s R.E.M. would have loved to fit on darker moments of Document or Green.

Hollis’ lyrics are peculiar and abstract, often about seasons, darkness and changes. He uses them like a painter’s colour-washes rather than storytelling tools. They add even more texture to Talk Talk’s challenging work; but this is work that sinks in so easily, that sticks under the skin.

If magic in music exists, it is here, and never-ending.




Track listing courtesy https://musicbrainz.org/

Shared and reproduced under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 3.0



Sunday 20 January 2019

Log #121 - The Twilight World Of The Handsome Family

Eddy Bamyasi


Handsome Family - Twilight
Handsome Family - Through The Trees
Miles Davis - Panthalassa
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
Santana - Caravanserai


It just struck me how the Miles Davis, Santana and Talk Talk albums are surprisingly similar.

The Talk Talk album is gorgeous. It has become a bit of an underground classic over the years. Talk Talk, if you remember, were a pop band of the new romantic age; they scored a few single hits and appeared on Top Of The Pops in the early 80s. Then suddenly, presumably after their success had granted chief Mark Hollis the time and budget to follow his true calling, the band came out with something altogether different.

Spirit of Eden (their 4th album, released in 1988) consisted of extended pieces of largely instrumental music that bordered upon prog, jazz, and ambience. Bizarrely the record company (EMI), typically shortsighted, later sued the band for releasing work that was not "commercially satisfactory"! Where have we heard that before?

In any case the band had the last laugh (their final album released in 1991 was entitled Laughing Stock) with Spirit of Eden now critically acclaimed and even recognised as an earlier pioneer of "post-rock".

Post-rock? Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Tortoise, Radiohead, Stereolab, Sigur Ros, Mono, 65 Days Of Static, Sounds Of The Lid, Explosions In The Sky...

The Santana album here is also their fourth. Here they move from a more "singles" approach from their first three albums - nicely summarised on their best Greatest Hits compilation - to something more progressive and expansive.

From the sleeve notes: Originally released in 1973, Caravanserai marked a creative turning point for Santana. Six years of phenomenal success over three albums and extensive tours, this album would represent an expanding of the band's musical scope. Caravanserai takes fans on a harmonic and spiritual odyssey through jazz. A true document of crystalline imaginative vision, Caravanserai is a milestone in the history of Santana.

The Miles Davis album consists of a bunch of remixes by Bill Laswell of previous tunes. There are four extended tracks from the early 70s era Miles and as such are concentrated on his jazz-rock fusion material. It works well as a standalone album.

I've offered up two albums from the peak Handsome Family period which I see spanning the turn of the millennium with Through The Trees (1998), In The Air (2000) and Twilight (2001).

My threesome with couple Brett and Renee Sparks started on hearing Weightless Again on a classic Uncut Americana cover CD I've mentioned before

Probably the greatest free CD ever given away with a magazine

The music is mainly the responsibility of hubby Brett but the lyrics are written by Renee who also writes short stories. 

The songs are a mix of the macabre;

So the young girl pierced her lily-white breast
Her blood poured over dark weeds
A silver dagger through her burning heart
Cold as the wind in the trees

The surreal;

There are birds in the darkness
That douse electrical fires
Flaring up in nursing homes
And the bedrooms of blind men
Birds you cannot see

The sad:

My ghost drives around with a bag of dead fish
Falling neutrinos drift through the trees
He staggers and reels, runs up credit card bills
And clogs up the toilet with bottles of pills
Here in the bipolar ward
If you shower you get a gold star

The unexpected;

Chicago is where the woman downstairs
Starved herself to death last summer
Her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept
With the gray rats out on the fire escape.
She died in June weighing 82
Her boyfriend went back to New York
The cops wandered through her dusty rooms
One of them stole her TV

And the amusing;

So long to my dog Snickers
Who ate Christmas tinsel
So long to Mr. Whiskers
Who jumped out of a window
And to the family of gerbils
Who chewed out of the cage
And the little brown rabbit
I ran over by mistake

You don't have to search long for great lyrics from Renee. Every song is a masterpiece of bizarre storytelling. I'm sure her short stories would be the same.

Never a band to reach much commercial success the Handsome Family did nevertheless score an indirect hit with the theme tune to the chilling first season of True Detective:




Finally a quick word on the Whiskeytown album.  Like The Handsome Family this group were at the forefront of the emergence of americana and alt-country in the mid to late 90s. They were fronted by Ryan Adams who disbanded the band after only 3 albums in 2000 and moved on to solo fame. Strangers Almanac is considered an early classic of the genre.





Sunday 2 July 2017

Log #40 - Ravi Shankar

Eddy Bamyasi


1. Ravi Shankar & Friends - Towards the Rising Sun
2. David Bowie - Black Star
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. Radiohead - Best Of
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Led Zeppelin - III

Sunday 18 June 2017

Log #38 - Talk Talk - From Popstars to Jazz Proggers

Eddy Bamyasi



1. Matthew E White - Fresh Blood
2. Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud
3. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
4. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Talk Talk did a sudden about turn with this album rather like David Sylvian did after leaving Japan, or Spinal Tap in their jazz fusion period! Having been Top of the Pops fodder in the early 80s this departure to an album of extended largely instrumental progressive jazz pieces was the last thing fans were expecting... and it's rather gorgeous!


Sunday 11 June 2017

Log #37 - Kraftwerk in Brighton!

Eddy Bamyasi

Kraftwerk returned to Brighton this week for the first time in 36 years. Playing at the Brighton Centre the "group" "played" a crowd pleasing set of greatest hits from Computer World, Man Machine, Electric Cafe, Tour De France, Radioactivity, Tran-Europe Express, and of course Autobahn - the original 1974 album that really announced their arrival.

Kraftwerk land in Brighton

So what of this? Well a number of things spring to mind...

It was an event! The "event of the season" as Buffalo Springfield once said? Possibly, although here in Brighton we are spoilt with many events. Kraftwerk concerts (and appearances of any sort) have been rare over their career although recently with their 3D tours and residences at various art galleries they have become a little more common place perhaps diluting the significance. It is still super hard to get a ticket though. I had failed a number of times before securing a side circle seat for this event.

Kraftwerk are one of those groups universally admired, not just for their music, but for their influence. In this way they are a bit of a sacred cow, immune to criticism. Listening back to the music they created in the 70s it really is remarkable - so different to anything else at the time and, although it is a cliche, still sounds as if it could have been produced yesterday. I was at school at the time and although the first pop synthesizer bands were starting to emerge in the wake of pioneers like Kraftwerk my interests remained firmly rooted in rock music. I didn't get these new synthesizer bands (Depeche Mode, OMD, Gary Numan etc) or Kraftwerk at all. But oddly Kraftwerk were one of the few electronic bands that many rock fans did like. Apparently it was not uncommon to see fans in denim jackets with Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin patches at Kraftwerk concerts. Apparently they were really loud too...

...which is why I was surprised that the music was quiet at the beginning as the house lights dimmed and neon green numerals danced across the backdrop and the band started with three numbers from Computer World. It was almost like it was still the background house music.  Later on people started shouting out that it was too quiet and amazingly someone must have heard as the volume was turned up from Radioactivity onwards.

Having got a seat to the side (it is a case of first come first served with seat selection on the internet for such a popular event) I was also wary of the effectiveness of the 3D. As a green number 4 launched towards my head at the start these fears were allayed. The crowd cheered. Later on a satellite floated above me during Spacelab from Man Machine (one of the musical and visual highlights). A UFO hovered in front of the i360 and the Brighton Centre before moving off to the Pavilion - nice local touch. More cheering.

However I continued to wonder if the 3D graphics would have been more impressive or evident from front on. I think probably not as I did have a look on my way to a bathroom break. Also, surely, they would have checked these things, and there were many seats much more to the side than mine.

Boom! Boing! Tschak!

I say "played" but that's a relative term. The four musicians (they are no doubt consummate musicians, not just technicians, having written the music at least in the case of original member Ralf Hutter, even if it is debatable how difficult it is to "play" it on computers) stood mostly motionless behind four stands and you could not see what they were doing from my angle. But their arms were moving up and down (punching some drum pads and things) or from side to side (keyboards), and Hutter (far right) was "singing" (speaking) in German and heavily accented English into a head mic. The screen helpfully showed the words to many of the "songs".

The Man Machine robots play to a full house at The Brighton Centre

At the start of the extended "encore" the real musicians were replaced by the famous Kraftwerk robots from Man Machine and "played" Robots. Humourously one of the robots wouldn't move at first. Eventually his arms rose - more crowd cheering. At the end the robots were unceremoniously pulled off stage by crew. This could have been more slick - for instance I did think the robots could have done a bit more visually although their virtual playing was exemplary. The humans returned and finished off, leaving the stage one at a time to tumultuous acclaim.

One frustration I find with a lot of concerts, especially ones like this, is the insistence on seating only. Although there are great visuals to watch, it's not a classical concert. Standing (and dancing) would have been much more exciting - I know the band are too big for such a venue but a Kraftwerk DJ set at the Concorde2 for instance would be immense! Health and safety is important of course, and in the circumstances the increased airport-like security on the door was welcome, but I do get a bit annoyed when the bouncers ask you to return to your seat if you go walkabout. Some brave souls did dance a bit in the aisles before the inevitable.

Over 2 hours of Musique Non Stop

But what of those tunes? They are all very familiar. I don't have all the Kraftwerk albums but reckon I recognised 90% of the set list. The music is simple yet perfect  - chunky repetitive bass lines and hypnotic drum beats overlaid with catchy 4 bar melodies. The tracks played live were respectful to the originals - perhaps slightly beefed up in places more akin to the remixes in The Mix album. The more recent (still old but relatively recent in Kraftwerk years) tracks from Tour De France and Electric Cafe (or Techno Pop as it is now renamed) sounding particularly current. Autobahn was the slightly edited version which appears on that album - the opening car door slam and horn receiving one of the loudest cheers of the night. Greatest hit The Model was welcomed with glee and accompanied by the original black and white video - Hutter's voice equal to the original single which strangely was officially only the B side to a track from Computer World not released until 1982. Pete Paphides explains -
Though it originally appeared on 1978's The Man Machine, The Model made more sense in a pop scene reconfigured by a rouge-streaked generation of androgynes who paid as much attention to the mask as to the emotions that it sought to conceal. In the world of Spandau Ballet, Gary Numan, Duran Duran, Visage and Scary Monsters-era Bowie, some people called themselves futurists; others preferred the term New Romantic. In terms of sound and subject, The Model was the exact point where the two intersected.
Kraftwerk at the time were a secret known only to the cool kids at school. The Model became a no.1 hit and blew that cover.


My choice from Kraftwerk this week is the Trans-Europe Express album - one of their best from their 70s hey day/decade. The music sounds fresh and vibrant, mathematically perfect, and decades ahead of its time.  Showroom Dummies is the consummate Kraftwerk tune (one of the few favourites missing from the Brighton setlist actually). The full log this week:

1. Henryk Gorecki - Miserere
2. Kings of Convenience - Quiet is the New Loud
3. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
4. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti CD 1
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach



Sunday 4 June 2017

Log #36 - Bonobo's Animal Magic

Eddy Bamyasi


1. Caitlin Canty - Reckless Skyline
2. Budgie - The Best Of
3. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
4. David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
5. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
6. Bonobo - Animal Magic

Down tempo mellow beats from Brighton's very own Simon Green aka Bonobo.
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(3) palace brothers (3) philip glass (3) popol vuh (3) quantic (3) rodriguez (3) rokia traore (3) rolling stones (3) rory gallagher (3) roxy music (3) rush (3) simon and garfunkel (3) sly and the family stone (3) steve hillage (3) suede (3) sufjan stevens (3) the comet is coming (3) tim buckley (3) wagon christ (3) wilco (3) 4hero (2) abc (2) ac/dc (2) al stewart (2) amon duul II (2) aphex twin (2) arctic monkeys (2) baka beyond (2) band of horses (2) belle and sebastian (2) blue oyster cult (2) blue states (2) bonzo dog band (2) boris salchow (2) burial (2) cardigans (2) carlos barbosa-lima (2) charles mingus (2) chemical brothers (2) chris rea (2) cinematic orchestra (2) compilations (2) crosby stills nash (2) david darling (2) death in vegas (2) debussy (2) dj shadow (2) doors (2) earl sweatshirt (2) eloy (2) emilie simon (2) erik satie (2) farben (2) festivals (2) fleet foxes (2) francois and the atlas mountains (2) fripp and eno (2) gas (2) gong (2) granados (2) green on red (2) griffin anthony (2) jazzland (2) jean sibelius (2) jeff buckley (2) john coltrane (2) johnny flynn (2) josh t pearson (2) julian cope (2) kamasi washington (2) kanye west (2) kate bush (2) ketil bjornstad (2) la dusseldorf (2) lambchop (2) larkin poe (2) little feat (2) ludovico einaudi (2) magma (2) marianne faithfull (2) marvin gaye (2) mike lazarev (2) money mark (2) morton feldman (2) nektar (2) nightmares on wax (2) ninja (2) nirvana (2) nitin sawhney (2) peace (2) porya hatami (2) prefuse 73 (2) prem joshua (2) randy newman (2) robert fripp (2) ryan adams (2) scorpions (2) scott and maria (2) scott matthews (2) servants of science (2) soft machine (2) steve miller (2) susumu yokota (2) talvin singh (2) the who (2) thievery corporation (2) traffic (2) truckstop honeymoon (2) ufo (2) up bustle and out (2) weather report (2) wiley (2) willard grant conspiracy (2) wishbone ash (2) wyclef jean (2) yes (2) abba (1) acid mothers temple and the cosmic inferno (1) aimee mann (1) air (1) alabama 3 (1) alice coltrane (1) amadou and mariam (1) andy shauf (1) anthony hamilton (1) april wine (1) arcade fire (1) ashra (1) asia (1) badger (1) barber (1) beach boys (1) bee gees (1) beirut (1) bert jansch (1) beuno vista social club (1) bill laswell (1) biosphere (1) bjork (1) blow monkeys (1) bob geldof (1) bob holroyd (1) bob seger (1) bombay bicycle club (1) boubacar traore (1) broken social scene (1) bruce springsteen (1) bruch (1) byline (1) captain beefheart (1) cardi b (1) cast (1) cat stevens (1) catfish and the bottlemen (1) charles and eddie (1) chopin (1) chris child (1) christine and the queens (1) chuck prophet (1) climax blues band (1) cosmic jokers (1) crowded house (1) d'angelo (1) daft punk (1) david goodrich (1) davy graham (1) dexy's midnight runners (1) dolly collins (1) donald fagen (1) dreadzone (1) dub pistols (1) eagles (1) echo and the bunnymen (1) eden espinosa (1) eels (1) elbow (1) electric ape (1) emerson lake and palmer (1) erlend oye (1) erukah badu (1) essays (1) euphony in electronics (1) faust (1) feist (1) flaming lips (1) future days (1) gamma (1) gang of four (1) gentle giant (1) goat roper rodeo band (1) godspeed you black emperor (1) gorecki (1) groove armada (1) grover washington jr. (1) gun (1) guru guru (1) hatfield and the north (1) hats off gentlemen it's adequate (1) heron (1) hiss golden messenger (1) hozier (1) human league (1) idles (1) india arie (1) iron and wire (1) isaac hayes (1) james brown (1) james joys (1) jamie t (1) janelle monae (1) jayhawks (1) jean-michel jarre (1) jerry paper (1) jim croce (1) jimi hendrix (1) jjcale (1) john cale (1) john mclaughlin (1) jon hassell (1) jurassic 5 (1) kacey musgraves (1) keith berry (1) kid loco (1) king tubby (1) king's consort (1) kings of leon (1) kirk degiorgio (1) kodomo (1) lenny kravitz (1) lighthouse (1) love supreme (1) luc vanlaere (1) lumineers (1) mark pritchard (1) mark ronson (1) me'shell ndegeocello (1) messiaen (1) metallica (1) micah frank (1) michael hedges (1) michael jackson (1) mike west (1) mitski (1) modest mouse (1) moody blues (1) morte macabre (1) motorhead (1) national health (1) nick drake (1) nusrat fateh ali khan (1) oasis (1) omd (1) orb (1) orquesta reve (1) other lives (1) oval (1) paco pena (1) paladin (1) panda bear (1) pat metheny (1) paulo nutini (1) pentangle (1) pierre bensusan (1) portishead (1) proprio (1) protoje (1) purcell (1) pussy riot (1) queen (1) rainbow (1) ramsay midwood (1) rautavaara (1) rem (1) rhythm kings (1) richard strauss (1) robyn (1) roni size (1) ryuichi sakamoto (1) sada sat kaur (1) saga (1) sam jordan (1) sammy hagar (1) santana (1) scaramanga silk (1) shakti (1) shirley collins (1) shostakovich (1) snafu (1) snatam kaur (1) sparks (1) st germain (1) stanford (1) steeleye span (1) stereolab (1) steve reich (1) styx (1) supertramp (1) susumo yokota (1) t bone walker (1) terry riley (1) the band (1) the clash (1) the jayhawks (1) the streets (1) the wreks (1) tricky (1) tycho (1) uriah heep (1) velvet underground (1) venetian snares (1) vladislav delay (1) whiskeytown (1) whitesnake (1) william ackerman (1) yngwie j malmsteen (1) zhou yu (1) μ-Ziq (1)