Beyond the Black Crack was the concept of Reverend Dwight Frizzell, a musician, film maker, Doctor of Metaphysics and minister in the Universal Church of Life. It remains a little known classic, and one of the most unique listening experiences in modern experimental music. Recorded between 1974 and 1976 in locations as diverse as […]
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Anal Magic and Rev. Dwight Frizzell – Beyond the Black Crack: Insane as Insane gets
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Alternative TV – The Image has Cracked:
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Alternative TV (sometimes known as ATV) were an English rock band, formed in London in 1976. Their punk rock and post-punk sound was influential for several musical artists. 01 Alternatives 02 Action Time Vision 03 Why Don’t You Do Me Right? 04 Good Times 05 Still Life 06 Viva La Rock’n’Roll 07 Nasty Little Lonely 08 Red 09 Splitting In Two bonus […]
The Breadwinner – Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet make art out of the everyday.
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A regal soul, inadvertently surrendering to the crab of lust, the octopus of weakmindedness, the shark of individual abjection, the boa of absent morality, and the monstrous snail of idiocracy! Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldoror The Breadwinner musical settings for common environments and domestic situations I did a review on here around Christmas time of […]
Alles ist gut – DAF give us sound sex.
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Alles ist gut is the third album by the electropunk/NDW band D.A.F. from Düsseldorf, Germany. It was released in 1981 and was the band’s first album on the British Virgin label. The album Alles ist gut received the German “Schallplattenpreis” award by the “Deutsche Phono-Akademie”, an association of the German recording industry. Track listing Sato-Sato (“Sato-Sato”) Der Mussolini (“The Mussolini”) Rote Lippen (“Red lips”) Mein Herz macht Bum […]
Music That Accentuates Life
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I wanted to share some art and music highlights for me over the last year and a half or so. I know it’s an odd, random sort of post, but Music became very important to me – quite suddenly a year and a half ago, and the how’s and why’s of that journey can be […]
Bear Ground – The sound of objects / the object of sound.
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I’ve had the most glorious day today with this CD caressing my ears. My assumption on this blog is that I speak mostly to those who don’t know much about this sort of music, but a fast analysis of my stats on the weekend revealed that (sigh) my experimental music posts are not very popular […]
Alien City – Alien City (1979): A little pre-punk in the post -punk era.
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“Alien City was composed over a period of five years. It is a song cycle of epic proportions centering around the incarnation of Celestial Visitors to this planet. They take youthful bodies with the soul mission of increasing the intelligence of the human race. Alas, in their compassionate endeavors they become trapped in the pernicious […]
Biglietto per l’Inferno: Italian Prog takes the world by storm – eventually!
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Biglietto per l’Inferno (literally ticket to hell) is an Italian progressive rock band whose album Biglietto per l’Inferno, in spite of the limited success it scored in the 1970s, is today considered a cornerstone of the genre. Biglietto per l’Inferno’s members were from Lecco, Lombardy, coming from the bands Mako Sharks and Gee. The year 1972 marked the band’s first concerts. In 1974 the band released […]
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