Songs can be many things. In written literature there are names for them, but songs, we seem to think, are … More
Category: Music
Posts about music.
An unforgetting shout
I’m not very familiar with the music of Kevin Martin, also known as The Bug, despite his prolific output, and … More
Get it while you can
Vanguard Street Art is an exhibition charting the development of street art in Bristol from the 1980s, when American hip-hop … More
Have you heard the news?
Since the 1940s, when big bands were last big business, few of them have had any longevity. The orchestras of … More
Simply present
Having taken a total break from playing music at the onset of the pandemic, I’ve been gradually coming back to … More
Party in the temple
I spent a while back there in the early noughties thinking that all the fusions had been tried, and that … More
Risks and growth
There are a few bands or musical artists of whom it’s possible to say that ‘their first album is the … More
Smart roots
I’ve been following the work of James Beaudreau since he sent me a trio of beautifully packaged CD albums for … More
Specifically dense
Michael Woodman is a lover of words. On his most recent album in particular, his lyrics display an affinity for … More
Between bodies and speakers
Sampling became one of the most significant new techniques in record production during the 1980s, and although its influence on … More
Ordinary voices
Ordinary voices get so little time and exposure that we tend to forget what they sound like, despite the fact … More
Mumbling in the pocket
On the last day of last year, the death was announced of one of the most enigmatic and under-recorded figures … More
Open worlds
Aladdin Sane was my first Bowie album. Not the first Bowie I heard, and not even the first of his … More
A joy
One of the leading South American festivals of electronic and experimental music, I gather, is Novas Frequências, held somewhere in … More