“Sing, For Song Drives Away the Wolves” – from Sing, For Song Drives Away the Wolves by Popol Vuh (1993) Can and early Tangerine Dream are perhaps the most well-known purveyors of the (let’s face it) somewhat derogatory term “krautrock”, but Popol Vuh is the band from that genre that’s always captured my imagination the…
Tag: Peter Gabriel
Anthony Phillips – “Field Day” (2018 reissue)
In this age of mega box set re-releases of well-loved albums – the Beatles’ White Album and Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks being two recent examples – sometimes its nice to rediscover (or discover for the first time) a more under-the-radar re-release. Anthony Phillips’ Field Day is one such. It’s really under the radar…I…
Wild Nothing: “Reichpop”
From Wild Nothing’s Life of Pause, released earlier this year, comes “Reichpop”, the lead track. It’s a soundworld enveloped in melodic washes of synthesizer, marimba, drums and guitar. With “reich” a German word meaning realm or empire, the title points us towards a pop realm which contains echoes of the past, while still sounding futuristic…
