One night as many others I was reading a book lying on my bed. That book was “My tunes” by Maurizio Blatto, a tale in which are described in a personal and brilliant way those songs, according to the author, which are able to “change the world”, or in an easier way, those songs that…
Not so many infos about this unknown Dutch band. I accidentally found their record while walking cheerfully in Milan. In a tiny side street, an old man was holding a Garage Sale in his home and among the other stuff, there were an handful of vinyls. I remember I’ve taken them all at once and saw distractedly the LP -Zig-Zag-…
The Scottish Post-Rock tradition have new performers after the Mogwai, here are the Errors, a fresh synth-addicted band formed in 2004 in Glasgow by Simon Ward, Greg Paterson, Stephen Livingston and James Hamilton. They produce 6 albums from 2006 to 2014 and a new work will be released on the 23rd March, always with the…
Usually i’m not a great lover of orchestral-driven disco, i find it too many cheesy and sometimes boring even…in that style there’s a lack of groovy fat bass, and, you know,…that brings into an annoying flat sound…no good. But in this particular case, Monsieur Jean Claudric, a french bandleader, arranger and composer who worked mostly for…
Demon Fuzz was an afro group active in Britain from 1968 to 1972. We definitely have to thank them because in their short career they released in 1970 one of the greatest masterpiece of fusion music: Afreaka! I use the term fusion to describe their sound like a powerful combination between funk, soul, progressive, psychedelic…
The Clash is one of my all time favorite band, so it was so hard to choose one song from their multi-sided discography. Anyway, other songs will surely be posted in other circumstances. This time my choice went to “Overpowered by Funk”, a white funk track included in 1982 album called “Combat Rock”. The cut…
It was around 2008 when I heard this song for the first time under the pseudonym of “Eden Rock”, taken from a release of edits made by Alexis Le Tan for the French label Les edits du Golem. And… i felt in love immediately with it. The sweet voice, the soft and groovy bass and…
About Righeira there’re not so many spoken words and even less written words. Hurriedlly they’ve been sold off as a typical Italian 80s freakshow band and surely they can’t boast an electro-maudit background like Krisma, but only two or three tracks engraved in the collective memory of the Italian XX century culture. So the Turin-based…
Young Marble Giants are an obscure band formed in Cardiff in 1978. Their only LP “Colossal Youth” was recorded in just four days for £1000 and released in 1980 on Rough Trade Records. The band was able to record fast and cheaply by using many of their first takes, in a deliberate attempt to keep…
If you decide to call your band as the main feeling that rules the universe you are probably aware to have something special inside: ego, talent, love? Love is a rock band from Los Angeles, operated in 60-70’s, leaded by Arthur Lee; they had only modest success on the music charts but definitely considered by…