Seoul Report: Musicians as Global Curators
couple late nights were spent at the iconic Banjul Schale in Jong-ro. Gaining notoriety in the 60’s for…
tired of strawberry leaves
as Wept fell apart as all bands do, this song became a metaphor for distance – for that mad and meditative…
going dry
Many failed attempts at writing a ‘dry’ song on guitar and voice revealed my bad technique. So I…
wept
Before I move on to the 2000’s I have to mention the goth-rock-avante-jazz band that I helped found in 1986 and played in until 1993…
the blind piano tuner
jack sprinkle was a talented, blind piano technician that for years would tune our family’s small upright and make it sound like…
Backwards and Forwards
The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see, it presciently read…
shadow men
a lost recording from 1986 emerges… ‘shadow men’ was recorded live with myra pearson who…
resonance
[1987] Resonance extends the direction of Animus with improvisation-based jazz compositions that…
Infrastructure to Nowhere
I’m hoping that all of this is like an empty auditorium before the show…
animus
[1986] One of the original albums on the then all home-grown, all-cassette label Carrier, Animus was an early foray into…
recycle bin
Sometimes the extra songs and sounds that were never placed within an album become like stray cats. They wander through the…
statik 1
[1989] “I’m dead” proclaimed my old friend Brian Johnston aka Ireverend Brainskan. It was the summer of 1988 after one of his last…