“We were living the dream” | Leo Lyons and Ric Lee on Ten Years After’s ‘Cricklewood Green’
Leo Lyons and Ric Lee remember the making of ‘Cricklewood Green’ and Ten Years After’s 1970 Fillmore East set. By the time Ten Years After began work on...
Interview
Nelson Pass on Pass Labs, First Watt and the Art of Simplicity
Nelson Pass has been designing amplifiers for more than half a century, but he still talks about them as if the interesting part is finding out what happens...
Simon Kirke on Free, Bad Company, Paul Kossoff and starting again
Free’s music depended on space, and Simon Kirke understood better than most drummers when not to fill it. Alongside Paul Rodgers, Andy Fraser and Paul Kossoff, he helped...
“We Had to Put Swallow Away for Many Years”: Swallow on 4AD, ‘Blow’ and Finding Their Way Back
Louise Trehy and Mike Mason look back at Swallow, making ‘Blow’ for 4AD, reworking the album as ‘Blowback’, the years that followed and returning to the music more...
Simo Lazarov and the Birth of Electronic Music in Bulgaria
Simo Lazarov has spent more than half a century working where music and technology meet. Born in Sofia in 1948, he grew up at a time when electronic...
Jad Fair of Half Japanese | “David and I Just Wanted to Sound Like Ourselves”
In 1974, Jad and David Fair rented a house with no other houses close by. It was useful for two young men who wanted to make a lot...
Savas Christie on ‘Savvas’ | The Rare 1974 LP Returns on Golden Debris
Originally released in 1974 in a pressing of just 300 copies, 'Savvas' has spent most of the past half-century out of sight. The record was made in Melbourne...
Alan Braufman: “I’m still trying to clarify that sound”
From hearing Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders as a teenager to 501 Canal Street, the rediscovery of ‘Valley of Search’ and the new ‘Anthem for Peace’, Alan Braufman...
Jan Lankisch Interview | How Marshall Allen’s ‘New Dawn’ Came Together
There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real...
Makara Interview | Bangkok’s Neo-Molam Trio Find Their Own Sound
Makara didn’t really become a proper band until their third album. Before that, Q had already made music under the name, often working alone and recording at home...