Farewell (for now) Brian Johnston {1969 – 2021}
“Human solidarity is to be achieved not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers…” Farewell (for now) my dear friend.
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B3ND3R: starting over again
I’ve gone on about being addicted to Reverb, my drug of choice. My previous recordings and collaborations were drenched with…
nakamichi bx-1 cassette deck
So many of us geeks that grew up in the ’80s and ’90s were moved by Rutger Hauer’s ‘Tears in the Rain’ monologue at the end of the…
statik 3
[1993] After years of playing ambient jazz and new wave, the alternative folk single Statik 3 remains an anomaly…
c’ville box
In 1990 I took my first photography course under a die-hard disciple of the Bauhaus (not the band, but the art school in germany ;-) On the…
40 Days: Songs and Suicide
Maybe the new year isn’t the best time to breach the topic of suicide. Then again if Robin Williams’s tragic death taught us something it’s…
statik 2
[1992] My musical mentor from my teenage years, the late George Horan taught me that navigating the elusive difference between…
valentine: there’s no escape from the beat…
I could barely stand it. It was the summertime in the early ’90s and there was only one beat on the airwaves. Even…
16:16 an imaginary intersection
Some of these songs go too deep into ’90’s New Wave territory, but like a rescued cat, I love them anyway…
16:16
16:16 is a collaborative EP by area C X jh0st originally released in 1991. It is also a place in time. As a…
the art of ambience: volume not decibels
I learned the basics of sonic-psychology: That ‘volume’ and actual decibels can be separate aspects of sound…
#ThrowbackThursday: New Waves
Whether you’re 15 or 55, New Wave is always about adolescence. Adolescence in its most raw, awkward…
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…
Backwards and Forwards
The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see, it presciently read…
resonance
[1987] Resonance extends the direction of Animus with improvisation-based jazz compositions that…
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…