Important The paths of western musicians dabbling in world / global music or whatever you call it these days is strewn with heroic and not-so heroic failures; Bill Laswell please stand up. So when I first heard that members of Earth, Asva and Burning Witch( three personal favourites) and other Seattle luminaries including the great Alan Bishop were embarking on an ethno music voyage under the infantile moniker […]
Daily Archives: 02/04/2011
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Sonic Youth Recordings I can still remember the electric thrill that jolted through me on first seeing the picture of Sonic Youth on the rear cover of Bad Moon Rising: clustered around that Ed Gein Halloween scarecrow, under a bruised mid-Western sky, the look of sneering distain on Thurston Moore’s face beneath his thatch of blond hair, awkward yet threatening in his combat jacket. The feeling was crystallised […]