Jeff Williams on Ant Trip Ceremony’s ‘24 Hours’, Stan Getz and Lookout Farm
Jeff Williams recalls the making of Ant Trip Ceremony’s ‘24 Hours’, the jazz musicians he met as a child, and his years with Stan Getz and Lookout Farm....
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Roger Knott | ‘Gateway Songs’ and the Nashville Recordings | Interview
Roger Knott discusses his new album ‘Gateway Songs’, revisiting material from his Lifeblud days, working with Nashville musicians, and the recordings he hopes to release next. Some of...
Gentle Giant Interview: “We Took Our Music Seriously, But We Didn’t Take Ourselves Seriously”
Dereck Higgins has been listening to Gentle Giant since he was young. He remembers the records he bought, the bass lines he tried to learn and the comfort...
Tamio Shiraishi on Fushitsusha, Tokyo’s Minor and Playing Saxophone in New York Subway Stations
Shiraishi recalls his early performances with Keiji Haino, the unusual way he acquired his first saxophone, and why he prefers playing in deserted subway stations. Born in Japan...
Burnt Hills: ‘My Home, My Jam, My Concept’ | Jackson Wingate Interview
Jackson Wingate has been making music in and around Albany since the mid-1980s. He played in Hunger Artists and Hunters of Gracchus before becoming co-owner of ERL Records,...
Cyrus Faryar Interview | From Greensleeves to The Modern Folk Quartet
Cyrus Faryar’s story runs from Tehran and wartime England to Waikiki, the Modern Folk Quartet, Fred Neil, Monterey Pop and the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s....
Allen Wyler on Neurosurgery, AI and the ‘Deadly Odds’ Series
Allen Wyler came to fiction after a long career in neurosurgery. He treated epilepsy, worked directly with the electrical activity of the brain, helped develop the neuroscience programme...
“Liverpool’s Loudest Band” | Caliban and the Early ’70s Heavy Underground
Caliban came together in Ormskirk in 1971, after Liverpool had moved beyond the first Merseybeat years and harder music was filling its clubs. Guitarist Keith Hubbard had already...
ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 31: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Frans de Waard
ALICE NOT JOHNEpisode 31: A Fictional Radio TransmissionGuest: Frans de WaardHost: Joeri Bruyninckx A conversation I overheard in a record store: Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”Record shop owner:...
William Davenport Interview | Problemist, ‘Unsound’ and the Cassette Underground
This article by Jerry Kranitz traces William Davenport’s work from Problemist and ‘Unsound’ through filmmaking, writing and his more recent experiments with AI. William Davenport wears many artistic...