One wonders what an artist like Nick Drake would have done in this age of social media, Youtube, and Bandcamp. Would he have found a wider audience for his music during his lifetime? Would that virtual word of mouth, that immediate and direct feedback from listeners, have provided enough of that missing recognition he seemed…
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Book Review: Bug Music
To join To feel The cicada’s song -ancient Maori chant, first written down in 1853 ———————- There’s a species of cicada that emerges from underground only every 17 years. It does this to sing, mate and then die in the few weeks it has in the fresh air and leafy trees. Great swarms of these…
School Bus Memories
It’s funny how we associate certain songs with certain times in our lives. There’s a whole batch of songs, that, whenever I hear them take me back to 1982 and riding the school bus to school each day. I was about 14 and the ride was about 20 minutes each way, through the rolling wooded…
Jabberwocky
“It seems very pretty”, she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas – only I don’t exactly know what they are!…” – Alice, upon reading the “Jabberwocky” poem in Alice in Wonderland Of all the children’s literature published in the last…
Update to “Halloweeny” post
An update to my 2011 Halloween post on scary album covers, revealing the story behind the Sonic Youth “Bad Moon Rising” cover.
My Bloody Valentine: “mbv”
My Bloody Valentine: “mbv” (2013) Swampy purple seismic gentle tsunamis of sound that reverberate and resonate on a molecular level. Hazy power tool washes of humming, purring, and grinding. Ghostly dancing voices weaving and twisting through thick guitar ignition voltage meters. Rising above and falling fathoms below into warm warping murky melting depths. She whispers…
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