Hi musical mates ! Here to introduce this underground synthpop gem from “Identity”, the only album released by ZEE a short-lived side project of Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright in partnership with Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984. “Strange rhythm” is a relatively simple electronic piece, with an obsessive synth rhythm,…

Tom Zé (11 October 1936 Irarà, Bahia) was one of the most original and independent figure in the Brazilian 1960’s Tropicàlia movement. Zé contributed, along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, and Nara Leão, to the watershed Tropicália album/manifesto Tropicália: ou Panis et Circenses (1968). He also participated in a series of…

The Sound were an English band formed in south London in 1975 and dissolved in 1988. Probably at the same level of the well known Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sound, while never commercialy successful, can be considered a landmark of English post punk scene.The original lineup of The Sound consisted of…

Zebra Crossing was a band of seven musicians founded in 1978 by Mario and Giosy Capuano brothers, one of the few italian disco band produced by an english label, in this case EMI Records. Mario and Giosy Capuano were successful producers and authors for many italian pop by performers, like Mina, Bobby Solo, Loretta Goggi…

“Chatka” probably is the greatest record released by Riccardo Zappa, an italian talented guitarist that deals with classic guitars, 6&12 strings guitars and electric guitars enhanced with astonishing sound FX ! He took lessons from Miguel Abloniz (a Greece-born guitarist who established in Milan in the late 50s) and during his thirty-years career he experimented…

Streaking is the first album of singer Loredana Bertè, one of the most representative icon of the italian pop rock scene. Published in 1974 on record label CGD, it is a concept album about the sexuality lived in a free and provocative way. The term “streaking” indicates the practice of naked exhibitionist to break in…

Bruton Music is a dream for all music collectors. Based in London and founded in 1977 by Robin Phillips, it is an astronomical library label with hundred of quality music productions.  A rich and varied archive of sounds for film, television and radio projects. The 3 tracks i want to propose come from Contemporary Motion LP. Realesed…

Alston Cyrus is a Caribbean singer and songwriter known as “ABC of Calypso/Soca”. He started his career in 1975 under the pseudonym of Beckett. In 1977 he began a long term collaboration with the legendary keyboardist and arranger Frankie McIntosh. The first album realized by this joint-venture was Disco Calypso, a reggae and disco funk…

This post is our tribute to the huge figure of Mr. David “Thin White Duke” Bowie.  We chose the first Bowie’s 12’’ to have been released in UK, that is the funk-influenced version of “John, I’m Only Dancing”, a song originally issued in 1972, only as a single, not included in any official full-lenght album. …

The pioneering indian musician Charanjit Singh sadly passed away at his home in Mumbai on Sunday, July 5. In 1982, after decades spent working in Bollywood and releasing cover albums of popular Indian songs, Singh purchased a Roland Jupiter-8 keyboard, a Roland TR-808 drum machine and a Roland TB-303 and decided to make a record…