Showing posts with label fennesz. Show all posts
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Sunday 19 July 2020

Log #199 - Discovering Daft Punk

Eddy Bamyasi
  


Matthew E White - Fresh Blood
War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Alva Noto - Unieqav
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fennesz - Venice


I discovered Daft Punk through the animated film Interstellar 5555. The film tells the story of a band who are kidnapped by an evil dictator who wants to rule the world, or something. I'm not sure, but anyway, seeing this (or hearing this) in the cinema (with surround sound at earsplitting volume) was an invigorating experience. At the time I had no idea who did the music to the film, and little idea who Daft Punk were. It transpired that the whole film uses the Discovery album for its soundtrack. 

Not surprisingly neither the album, or the DVD of the film, are quite as mind blowing as that first cinematic experience. The latter, with its bright colours, would certainly benefit from some pharmaceutical enhancement. The album is however still a great piece of work and stands perfectly alone without its associated film.








Sunday 28 June 2020

Log #196 - Textstar

Eddy Bamyasi

Loscil - Submers
 Autechre - Tri Repetae
Autechre - LP5
Fennesz - Venice
Farben - Textstar
Arovane & Mike Lazarev - Aeon

Farben is another name for German glitch producer Jan Jelinek (him of the classic 2001 Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records album which came close to being my album of the year on my discovery a few years back).

Whereas Jelinek centres more on ambience and minimalism under his own name his Farben pseudonym is home to more upbeat house beats (or micro house I've heard it called sometimes, although yet to understand what that means). 

[Jeez, that wiki definition talks about Bit Pop and something called Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass. Ed] 

However although there are more straight forward kicks and dubby basses there are still plenty of Jelinek's trademark clicks and crackles over down tempo organ tones. Textstar (2002) offers a worthy companion piece to its more famous cousin.


Sunday 10 May 2020

Log #189 - This Music Just Feels Right Right Now

Eddy Bamyasi


William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops III
Low - Double Negative
William Basinski - A Shadow In Time
Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records
Aphex TwinSelected Ambient Works Volumne II (CD 1)
Fennesz - Agora

Music for our times?

This Ambient Top 50 list from Pitchfork has opened me to lots of great ambient music over the last 12-18 months: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9948-the-50-best-ambient-albums-of-all-time/?page=5

The William Basinski appears at No. 3. Aphex Twin No. 2. 

Similarly this IDM ("intelligent dance music" as opposed to, or as a sub category within, EDM which stands for the more generic "electronic dance music") Top 50 is great too, and overlaps a fair bit with the Ambient list: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10011-the-50-best-idm-albums-of-all-time/?page=5

Jan Jelinek is at No. 7 on this one. 



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



Sunday 15 March 2020

Log #181 - A Lift To The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Eddy Bamyasi

Why have I not heard this stupendous album before? Loving the The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads album from Lift To Experience and I've only played the first half. Fronted up by Josh T Pearson I was vaguely aware of his original band but had never heard this, their only album. 


This is the story of three Texas boys busy mindin' their own business when the Angel of the Lord appeared unto them.

The double album (I've only just realised there were 2 CDs in the carboard sleeve!) was released by the Texas-based indie trio in 2001. Mixed by Cocteau Twins Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie the album is a marvellous mess of noise casting Texas as the "promised land" in a "second coming of Jesus" concept. Having seen Josh T Pearson live solo where he projected a hardly disguised "messiah" persona I'm not surprised. 


Josh "Bear" Browning's, Josh T Pearson and Andy "the Boy" Young

Indeed Pearson's solo album Last Of The Country Gentlemen is certainly unusual. When I first heard it I couldn't decide if it was the worst or best record I'd ever heard. But The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads is a whole new level. 

Readers' Note - there are two versions of the album, the 2001 original and a "remixed as God intended" version released in 2017 (my version is the 2001 release).


Cluster - '71
Cluster - II
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Brian Eno - Ambient 4 On Land
Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (CD 1)

The Lift To Experience offering is opposite to the other records in the player this week where we have 5 ambient favourites - although maybe not completely opposite. Where last week's Eno album Apollo is no doubt lovely musically, his Ambient 4 On Land is much more experimental in terms of soundscapes and odd noises. Then the Cluster albums, certainly the debut '71, is the industrial sound of an electrical power plant. The Fennesz album Endless Summer has its moments of beauty but these are submerged in plenty of grating clicks and fuzzes, and the strings heavy Zeit comes from the discordant school of classical mininalism.



Sunday 26 May 2019

Log #139 - Gentle Nighthawks

Eddy Bamyasi

This week I take in an early and oft overlooked album from Tom Waits - his 1975 outing Nighthawks At The Diner - an atmospheric whole greater than the sum of its insignificant parts. Eccentric English prog rockers Gentle Giant are given short shrift with their most famous album Octopus

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The Alan Parsons Project Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner
Fennesz Endless Summer
Tord Gustavsen Trio The Other Side
Emilie Simon Vegetal
Gentle Giant Octopus

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Oh, what can I say? It’s a shame to write off a whole band’s career in a short paragraph but I’m afraid it’s gonna happen here. 

I was made aware of Gentle Giant through some positive reviews on a Facebook forum I follow. I was also aware that one or two of their album covers were Roger Dean designs - most famously the Octopus one below which is the subject of this brief review - the album, their 4th, indeed entitled Octopus.

The music is incredibly busy, taking in elements of Genesis, Traffic, ELP, Atomic Rooster (lots of piano) and Yes. It's a real prog rock soup with all sorts of vegetables thrown in but they aren't liquidised very well and, despite the obvious instrumental chops of the band, it's all a bit of an unpalatable stew.

In fact the group's stated mission statement was to:

Expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular.

Perhaps this is why, in their decade of existence (1970-80), they never achieved the fame, fortune and admiration bestowed on many of their contemporaries.

I'm not a massive Tom Waits aficionado but feel that (like a lot of artists) he had a 70s phase, and an everything afterwards phase (not that I'm aware of much that he has done since the 80s). When he started out he sang conventional ballads and love songs - some of the tracks on the early albums like The Heart Of Saturday Night are beautiful. Even the singing was tuneful.

Then something happened around the turn of that decade. Waits went industrial. His music became dominated by clanking rhythms and gravelly barking vocals. The main album I was aware of that demonstrated this new sound was Swordfishtrombones. Actually this makes perfect sense. Waits had changed labels, his initial label Asylum dropping him for "failing to move beyond cult status". Swordfishtrombones was released in 1983 - his first album for the new label Island and his 7th overall.

This album was doing the rounds when I was a Uni student. There was even a track on the jukebox at our main drinking hole, the Red Cow in Exeter. How many jukeboxes have Tom Waits on them? Not many but this was no ordinary jukebox, and the Red Cow was certainly no ordinary pub (sadly no longer there). The track was the drunken sing-a-long In The Neighbourhood and would be aired nightly.

As a fan of hard rock Tom Waits remained a bit of a mystery to me (I was much more acquainted with the AC/DC numbers on said jukebox). But eventually I got the album, and followed it closely with Frank's Wild Years, Raindogs, Small Change, The Heart Of Saturday Night, Foreign Affairs, Big Time, One From The Heart and my favourite, Blue Valentine, which I think perfectly bridged the two types of Tom Waits.

Note not much from the late 80s on. This is an oversight on my part yet to be rectified - as indicated by the ranking below (Waits' output is so consistent it is hard to find a consensus for such a list - maybe one for me to tackle in the future?).

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-tom-waits-albums-list/reference

Also interesting to note that Waits lags behind other celebrated singer-songwriters (Young, Dylan, Morrison etc) in my overall frequency rankings with just the 5 to date.

Tom Waits tops my bucket list of artists I want to see live.

To be fair the gravel vocals came first and were already in place before the industrial clanking which coincided more with the powerful barking delivery which has remained in place ever since those 80s albums. When Waits recorded Nighthawks At The Diner it was only his 3rd album and he was only 26 although his voice sounds like a weary old man of 62 who has seen it all.

The album is set up like a live recording made in a seedy jazz basement. Actually it was set up, literally. The recording was made in a LA studio in front of a small audience of select guests, friends and record executives. Backed by seasoned jazz session musicians Waits slurs his way through a series of down tempo cabaret numbers interspersed with spoken asides, banter and his trademark humour, playing the role of the barfly troubadour to the max.

As the album goes, and the songs within, it's certainly not his best work, and doesn't reach the heights of the similarly jazzily improvised Astral Weeks. But despite its contrived origin, it does have a tremendous smoke filled atmosphere you could cut with a knife, and reminds me why the tour shy Tom Waits tops my bucket list of artists I want to see live. There is very little chance of this happening unfortunately.


Edward Hopper's famous 1942 depiction


Sunday 19 May 2019

Log #138 - The Other Sides Of Jazz

Eddy Bamyasi

A couple of new jazz albums in the player this week. Quite different.

Firstly Kamasi Washington who seems to be a bit of a poster boy for the "new jazz revival". His latest album Heaven and Earth is of epic proportions, as was his previous release, the appropriately entitled The Epic. In fact it topped many "best of" lists for 2018. For me, I've tried to get into it, but so far I've been left slightly cold by the myriad of different tones which include samba beats, stage show numbers, soul, gospel, vocals and, most disturbingly, 80s style electronica. Kamasi seems a big personality and this is big music. I must try harder.

Much more my tea at the moment is a beautiful album from Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen which I discovered by chance after overhearing the track Re-Melt at a Brighton Festival Open House (I stood transfixed by the speaker unable to move until it was over). Fittingly from the ECM label The Other Side is Gustaven's eighth album.


The Alan Parsons Project Tales Of Mystery And Imagination
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner
Fennesz Endless Summer
Tord Gustavsen Trio The Other Side
Emilie Simon Vegetal
Kamasi Washington Heaven And Earth


In contrast to the Washington album this is gentle minimalist jazz all about the subtle ebbs and flows and the space in between. Gustavsen explains:

There is this idea in the title of the way the trio plays as being the other side of virtuosity, a kind of paradoxical virtuosity where you don’t play all the notes you can but merely the notes that are really needed. It’s about subordinating your ego to the flow of the music – and that takes a kind of ‘radical listening’ – listen more than you play. That’s a passion the three of us share.

Indeed the trio display admirable restraint through twelve modestly lengthed tracks of sparse beauty. The piano playing is melodic and recalls the Debussy preludes - the classical influences are confirmed with three arrangements of Bach pieces. The piano leads but is backed by perfect double bass and drum accompaniment. 

Although potentially verging on the Keith Jarrett type easy listening stylings the album's sheer beauty, perfectly encapsulated in the lilting opening track The Tunnel (below), overcomes any accusations of "imperceptibility" as levelled at The Cinematic Orchestra last week.




Easily my album of the week, I've pretty much had this little gem on repeat play all weekend.





Sunday 12 May 2019

Log #137 - At The Dawning of a Neu! Age for Invention and Imagination

Eddy Bamyasi


The Alan Parsons Project Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur
Fennesz Endless Summer
Neu! Neu!
Manuel Göttsching Inventions for Electric Guitar
Ashra New Age Of Earth


The Alan Parsons Project album was another one of those albums that was knocking around my latter school and early uni years, but wasn't one I ever possessed or recall fully hearing. I knew Alan Parsons became well known after engineering The Dark Side Of The Moon and also, less so, The Year Of The CatHe then, evidently by accident, went on to record a number of his own albums (11 up to 1990 and a comeback one in 2014) beginning with Tales Of Mystery And Imagination in 1976:

"We never expected the Alan Parsons Project to become the name of an act. The phrase was designed to describe the identity of the album you are now holding in its orginal form. We would never in our wildest dreams have thought that at least ten albums would follow, performed by this anonymous outfit that never played gigs!"

Alan Parsons writing in the sleeve notes to the remastered release of Tales... in 1987.

Ah, the sleeve notes...at first glance on this CD release they are impressive and comprehensive (so few artists even bother at all these days) - Parsons (I assume they are his words) says himself sleeve notes have fallen out of fashion but then the annoyances creep in. There are obvious typos and a particular reproduction clanger which unfortunately renders the notes disjointed, inconsistent and repetitive. I have no idea how this is allowed to happen. Even when I produce a crappy throwaway  spreadsheet for work, which will be read by hardly no one and confined to the recycle bin within a few weeks, I proof read it 100 times. But this stuff is there forever. I don't get it. Such an easy thing to get right.

The music is so-so. Yet to really form an opinion on it. There is a range of music from rock to prog to classical. It reminds me a little of Meatloaf in the more bombastic moments, and Supertramp in the softer rock numbers. Apparently there was some kudos to having no synthesizers in the original recording of Tales... (I remember this was stated on Queen albums up until the 80s after which time they certainly made up for it!). For this reissue synthesizers have been allowed.

Much more immediately appealing are the Manuel Gottsching albums. Gottsching was the main man behind Krautrock band Ash Ra Tempel and the follow up group Ashra. In fact this album, his first official solo release in 1975, is subtitled Ash Ra Tempel VI thus doubling up as the sixth and final album under the Ash Ra Tempel name. After Inventions For Electric Guitar Gottsching formed Ashra and recorded the landmark New Age Of Earth album in 1976.

Inventions is a fascinating record with 3 long tracks, each of significantly differing atmospheres. For its time the heavily flanger and echo treated electric guitar loops must have been very groundbreaking, and it still sounds fresh and original today. The style is reminiscent of Steve Reich (particularly his Electric Counterpoint for guitars) and Steve Hillage (particularly Rainbow Dome Musick) and even Alex Lifeson (La Villa Strangiato) and John Martyn (Small Hours) with the long sustained notes that build and fade.

New Age Of Earth is essentially another solo album. This one veers off into more Tangerine Dream-like sequencer territory. It's different but equally beautiful and melodic and has been frequently nominated as one of the most influential ambient albums of all time:

Göttsching’s style of looping notes into sequential echoes has inspired a generation of musicians to mimic this process, but in this recording you hear the master at play.


These two albums together make a very pleasing pairing. In fact they would have made a masterful double album, and are prime candidates for a 2 on 1 CD release.

I orginally had the Alan Parsons cover as my head shot for this blogpost but to be honest it was a bit dull and the Ashra cover above is awesome! Before looking closely I thought this was a sunrise over a mayan temple or pyramid. A homage to the sun god if you like. It's actually something even cooler. A sunrise over a derelict block of flats set in wasteland and against barbed wired fencing. Like the urban monoliths in High Rise or the shocking tragedy that was Grenfell. The ultimate juxtaposition of nature and man (Led Zeppelin did something slightly similar (but less striking) on the cover of their IV album). I have found no information on the actual location for the Ashra cover shot.




The album title too, potentially overblown in some contexts, is entirely fitting with the cover and the music.

The 4 tracks are entitled:

Sunrain
Ocean Of Tenderness
Deep Distance
Nightdust

Neu! were another German krautrock band from the 70s. As revered as the likes of Can but much less prolific although founding members Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother (both ex-Kraftwerk) were involved in other bands including Harmonia and La Düsseldorf. They only produced 3 proper studio albums Neu!, Neu! 2, and Neu '75, although an unoffical Neu! 4 was later released as Neu! '86. Their debut album is probably the one to start with for beginners and contains the celebrated Hallogallo and Negativland tracks - spacey melodic explorations over driving motorik beats so influential to Hawkwind.

As regular readers will know I chanced upon a whole raft of excellent experimental ambient music towards the back end of last year. I discovered a wide range of new artists and immersed myself in a number of albums. 6 months on it is interesting to see what has resurfaced from the deluge. The favourite to date seems to be the fascinating Fennesz album, Endless Summer, which I keep returning to. A correspondent likened the sound of this album to that of the dying of a distant star. A brilliant and entirely apt description. It is out of this world.

Well I may aswell. Nearly covered all 6 albums in the player this week so here goes with The Cinematic Orchestra. This album is simultaneously beautiful and slightly, dare I say, boring? It's so down tempo it is rendered almost imperceptible. Yes, that's the word...



Maybe this is far too harsh and within the lilting jazz piano and dreamy singing there are hidden depths but I've had this album for years so it's time for it to reveal itself. I'm seeing the group at a festival this summer so it will be interesting how they reproduce their music live.


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Books! Books! Books! There so much to read! I've got 3 on the go at the moment, with a bunch stacked in the queue. I'm cruising slowly through Why Bob Dylan Matters by Richard Thomas. This is all about the lyrics and is a take on why Dylan is as important as the ancient classical writers. I think the author is making a case for his degree course on the subject.

More fun is Julian Cope's twin autobiographies Head On (the trip from zero to hero and back to zero again with The Teardrop Explodes in the matter of only 2 or 3 years) and the follow up Repossessed which promises "shamanic depressions" in the 80s wilderness years.

And finally I've just started the impressive Electric Eden by Rob Young - a lengthy tome on the history of English (folk) music from Vaughan Williams through to Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, and all that Joe Boyd stuff. 100 pages in and it seems to be a cut above the usual surface music writing.



Sunday 10 February 2019

Log #124 - Introducing Gas and Fennesz

Eddy Bamyasi

Radiohead - Amnesiac
Gas - Pop
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night Live At The Roxy
Fennesz - Endless Summer
David Bowie - Black Star
Bear's Den - Islands

A couple of albums here that I now consider near the best of the particular artists in question: David Bowie's final album Black Star and Radiohead's Amnesiac. 

With it's jazz honkings and strident bass and drums Black Star couldn't really be more different to Bowie's heyday albums of the early 70s, except for the ever distinctive voice which remained strong to the end. A very powerful final statement from an amazing artist. 

Amnesiac is probably not many Radiohead fan's first choice for favourite album but I much prefer it to the celebrated Ok Computer



Also two albums from the ambient/electronic genre which I've been reading a lot about - Gas and Fennesz. 

Gas is the stage name for German electronic musician Wolfgang Voigt. Pop (2000) is the third in a trilogy of albums he produced with 1997's Zauberberg and 1999's Königsforst. The instrumental music is heavily layered mostly without beats or perceptible changes. The dense soundscape of repetitive loops and drones reminds me of the William Basinski albums I've heard, particularly The Disintegration Loops, although this is much more easy listening. It's actually very peaceful to listen to - hypnotic, and yes, I would say, beautiful. I think I'll play this album a lot. 

I think the boundaries between "musical" and "non-musical" are in a state of flux. Otherwise, I do not really care about any "musicality" related to GAS. Emotions, structure, aesthetics are more important to me. Melodies in the classical sense are not supposed to be in GAS, although they exist, as hidden and over-layered as the chord changes. But you have to notice them.

Christian Fennesz is an Austrian musician whose modus operandi is heavily treated guitar. Endless Summer is his third album released in 2001, and his most critically acclaimed work. The music is more demanding than Gas and at first I found it quite grating but am now starting to warm to its appeal.

A grainy, blissful album that resembles easy-listening music coming through on the broken broadcast of a distant star.
Mike Powell, Pitchfork

Again, some of the looped droney pieces like A Year In A Minute remind me of Basinski whereas a more melodic piece like Shisheido with it's pleasing chord changes reminds me of the brilliant Four Tet or Blue States. The final and longest track is a fast keyboard loop over loud static from the Terry Riley/Philip Glass school of minimalism. It gradually begins to distort like My Bloody Valentine, or, yes, again Those Disintegration Loops. Like the Gas I have a very strong feeling I'm going to be playing this album a lot this year.

The clip below should be (youtube have changed their software again) a playlist for a couple of tracks from both Fennesz and GAS (capitals applied this time):




Retaining it's place in the player the Tonight's the Night Live album is proving very popular at Bamyasi Towers. With the title track occurring twice on the album the catchy bass riff and vocal chorus seems to be getting more than it's fair share when the player is on random repeat. Members of the Bamyasi family have even started repeating: Tonight's the night, tonight's the ni-ni-ni-ni-night...



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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)