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Music of the week: one of the musicians who influenced me the most is Marc Ribot. I saw him on stage in the early 1990s - a little bit by chance, all I knew about him was that he was playing for Tom Waits - and he blew my mind: it was like nothing...
- Dirty Primitives Go No Pop
Dirty Primitives just released a new single that is quite surprising in many ways - though not betraying the sound we've discovered on their first album. Obviously they don't play by the rules - that's probably why their music is good...
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Music of the week: I recently discovered French jazz saxophone player Guillaume Perret, a powerful and creative musician who's first album was released by Tzadik in 2012, for good reasons... my next CD. ...
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Musik of the week: I've been listening to several Radiohead concerts from the 1990s and 2000s on YouTube... Back in the 90s I wasn't listening so much to pop/rock, I was mostly into noise and experimental music, Japanese easy listening, cosmo-pop...
- 10 Best Guitar Solos - A Slight Tangent From My Usual Blog Posts
This post is a little side treat for my readers - I found this list of 10 BEST GUITAR SOLOS at a site called http://www.lab404.com/ while doing some research on the Robert Fripp solo on "Baby's on Fire." I have no interest in generating...
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music of the week: I recently discovered a great album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp by Giles, Giles and Fripp - you may never have heard of this band but they would later rename themselves King Crimson after a slight personal change. This album released in 1968 had very little audience, probably too bizarre, but it's a real gem, I strongly recommend it.
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Music of the week: one of the musicians who influenced me the most is Marc Ribot. I saw him on stage in the early 1990s - a little bit by chance, all I knew about him was that he was playing for Tom Waits - and he blew my mind: it was like nothing...
- Dirty Primitives Go No Pop
Dirty Primitives just released a new single that is quite surprising in many ways - though not betraying the sound we've discovered on their first album. Obviously they don't play by the rules - that's probably why their music is good...
- More Sketches
Music of the week: I recently discovered French jazz saxophone player Guillaume Perret, a powerful and creative musician who's first album was released by Tzadik in 2012, for good reasons... my next CD. ...
- More Sketches
Musik of the week: I've been listening to several Radiohead concerts from the 1990s and 2000s on YouTube... Back in the 90s I wasn't listening so much to pop/rock, I was mostly into noise and experimental music, Japanese easy listening, cosmo-pop...
- 10 Best Guitar Solos - A Slight Tangent From My Usual Blog Posts
This post is a little side treat for my readers - I found this list of 10 BEST GUITAR SOLOS at a site called http://www.lab404.com/ while doing some research on the Robert Fripp solo on "Baby's on Fire." I have no interest in generating...