Alcatraz

Alcatraz interview

May 3, 2019 Uncategorized 0 Comments

The band was founded in the spring of 1970 by Klaus Holst, Rüdiger Berghahn, Ronny Wilson and Jan Rieck. Klaus Nagurski and manager Willy Jahnke joined the band...

Birth – “Live In Tucson” (Cardinal Fuzz, 2019). Birth is the project of Grant Beyachau and Nik Rayne from The Myrrors who performed as Birth for this live improvisational performance in Tucson (USA). The performance was captured onto a handheld recorder as Birth, seated on the floor, journey towards a state of transcendence in front of a small but appreciative audience. Taking cues from Terry Riley, LaMonte Young as well as Spacemen 3 (Dreamweapon) – minimalist artists who offer no concessions to the listener except to surrender yourself to the drone. Grant creates swirling cyclic passages via analogue synthesizer and tape machine loops as Nik conjures subliminal notes via guitar and space echo.