Recently I got back into playing guitar, it’s so nice to have an actual hobby that is not just more work. I got back into actually studying how the instrument works and techniques, it’s really fun… and I bought a new guitar! A Fender Mustang 90 🙂 really nice to play with. What I found […] The post My new axe appeared first on Alessandro Muraro.
There’s no reason for this title, it just happens to be what the lyrics to this song sound like. Five Things 1. The idea or the thing A core position of my thinking, generally on futures and technology, is that the idea of things has more impact on shaping real-world experience than actual things themselves. […]
It's of Montreal & underscores season here.
Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley bow”, which is a sort of homemade one-stringed zither. The player uses a bottle as a bridge for the string, and changes the pitch by sliding the bottle up and down. When you hear about blues artists whose first guitars were homemade, this is often what was meant:…
How Aphex Twin Created Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (reverbmachine.com) Amazing in depth dissection and replication of the famous Aphex Twin record. There’s no end to the amount of gear chatter you can find regarding Aphex, but this article goes the distance and makes pretty good impressions of the tracks themselves! modsamplemaster.thegang.nu What’s extra cool about … Continue reading January / February Web links
Reflecting on February and looking ahead to March’s genre(s), Baroque.
Light from a dying sun on radio.l0wl1f3 is a mix of dark ambient, drone, etc. Listen to "Light from a dying sun S01E07": Download audio
Debut album of AI generated electronic music by neonspectra — 8 tracks and their associated stories
“In the year 5555, your arms are hangin’ limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin’ that for you.” Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead of schedule, it’s never been easier to tell the world “I didn’t care about this and I don’t care about you.” More »
It took me a little while to get this one out the door, but I can at least say that I decided on this list around the new year! This list is of my favourite listens of the year, not necessarily the best albums. Some are situational, but I'd say all are enjoyable in their own ways. Aesop Rock - Black Hole Superette Aes has been prolific lately, but the quality hasn't suffered. I slightly prefer this album over the other one he dropped this year, but both are worth your time. aya - hexed! It took…
The complexity and calculated elaborations of the instrumental play are worthy of admiration. The soundscape is finely tuned in a delicate cacophony. All that careful attention paid to the sampling is successfully populating the undergirding of the song’s structure and acts to center some direct and cunning hooks, complementing and following the form. The richness … Continue reading "TRACK | King-Mob – Pendulum Days"
Heute gibt es mal nochmal einen richtigen Oldschool Track aus dem Jahr 1995 auf die Ohren. „Livin‘ Proof“ von Group Home. Group Home sind zwei Rapper aus dem Dunstkreis von Gang Starr. Dementsprechend dope ist dieser Track, checkt den mal aus!
(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) I turned to my wife in the car the other day and said, out of nowhere: “You know, I love a bit of sax in a song.” She laughed. But I was deadly serious. Coincedentally, while looking through the Tidy Tuesday archives for some data to play around with in R after not using the language for a while, I found the Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones data set. And it conta...
His (real) way or the highway. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Lee Morgan (trumpet), Jackie McLean (alto saxophone), Bobby Timmons (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Art Blakey (drums) Recorded on April 28, 1960 at Rudy van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Released as BLP 4034 in 1960 Track listing Side A: These Are Soulful DaysRead more
This 2026 record is the seventh by American indie artist Mirah whose musical career has spanned more than a quarter century though this is the first time I had heard of her. This album took many years to make having been thrown off course by the pandemic, the death of
When I typed The Guillotine into my music programme’s search bar (yes, to me applications are still programmes), Escape the Fate‘s version began playing. But as soon as it ended, another track with the same name started – this time … Continue reading →
I was recently asked to participate in a super-cool livestream series being put on by the Spirit of Gravity collective out of Brighton, UK. They’re hosting streams every third Wednesday “to experience new sounds from performers across the world.” That’s me! I’m across the world! I’m working on new album material at the moment, so ... Read more
Had fun recording this appearance a few days ago on the Kim Komando radio show & podcast about my AI books and albums.
One of my favorite Henderson titles on Milestone. ...
This is the second half of what I’d planned for this edition of the newsletter. It was done first, and ran long, and the first half isn’t done yet, so how about I send what I have out into the world now. (I should these out more often anyway.) Impromptus that aren’t so prompt Fresh off his win at the 2025 Chopin Competition (which results were a bit controversial), Eric Lu is now getting some critical heat for his new album of Schubert impromptus, out last month from Warner Classics. Norman L...
Along with Opeth, Lacuna Coil are another of my absolute favourite bands and I was extremely excited last year when I saw that they were touring here again, since they haven’t been out since 2016 when I last saw them. Prior to that I saw them (twice) in 2007, then 2008, and 2009, and I…
I went looking for some relaxing background music for the housework and stumbled into a bizarre genre I didn't know I needed. What started as a standard Gregorian chant playlist took a sharp turn when the monks started singing John Lennon.
It’s perplexing that a 52-card deck has more combinations than atoms in the known universe, meaning every shuffle is likely the first time that specific order has ever existed. If you apply that conundrum to a music playlist, even a "Top 10" would result in a distinct playlist from everyone on Earth (if we all made one). My top 10's top 1 was Olivia Dean, and I'm sure many others (it's been her year), but my favorite track of the year is actually "Drink the Ocean" by Gabi Hartmann ...
