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...
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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...
Lewis Shiner Interview: The Author of ‘Glimpses’ on Music, Fiction and a Life in Writing
From Austin punk clubs and the first stirrings of cyberpunk to 'Glimpses', Brian Wilson and the lost music of the 1960s, Lewis Shiner looks back on more than...
Leszek Możdżer Interview: Miłość, Chopin, Komeda and the Decaphonic Piano
Ahead of his appearance at the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Leszek Możdżer looks back on Miłość and the early yass years, his encounters with Chopin and Komeda,...
EABS Interview: From Wrocław Beat Sessions to Komeda, Sun Ra and Stańko
As EABS prepare to open the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Marek 'Latarnik' Pędziwiatr talks about the beginnings of the group in Wrocław, making beats from records, Komeda,...
Denny Zeitlin: Jazz Pianist, Composer and Psychiatrist on a Life of Improvisation
Denny Zeitlin is an American pianist, composer, improviser and psychiatrist who has, for more than six decades, sustained two demanding careers in parallel. Born in Chicago in 1938,...
Peter Hammill Interview: New Album ‘Tears in Time’ and the Van der Graaf Generator Years
As a founding member of Van der Graaf Generator and a prolific solo songwriter, Peter Hammill has spent more than half a century making music with an unusually...