Interview – Ghostpoet
“Explicitly personal insights have become wider perspectives: after 2013’s ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ LP purged London-based Obaro Ejimiwe of lingering spectres born of a relationship breakdown, ‘Shedding Skin’ allows him to refocus on what he loves: sitting,…
Interview – Cid Rim
“The world of Cid Rim circles around the boundless magic and mythical formulas of funk. When speaking of his influences and musical socialisation, the 28 year old viennese producer and drummer ends in the 70ies of the past century. Think…
Interview – Vague
“Die 1990er feierten in den letzten zwei Jahren nicht nur in der Modewelt ein großes Comeback. Grunge, Garage Rock und Lo Fi wurden auch wieder an populär. Natürlich haben sich auch neue Bands gefunden, die jenen Genres frisches Leben einhauchen…
Interview – Nowhere Train
Eigentlich ist der Nowhere Train eine Band, die es gar nicht geben kann. Ein Gegensatz durch und durch. Eine Fleisch gewordene Unmöglichkeit. Paradoxon per se. Sie sind ALLE Alphatiere. Jeder Einzelne ist es gewohnt, in seinem jeweiligen Hauptprojekt den Ton…
Interview – Isolation Berlin
Die Trostlosigkeit hat uns zusammengeführt, wir sind versunken in der Isolation Berlin. Vier gebrochene Herzen, die die Wogen der Großstadt wie Abfallprodukte der Spaßgesellschaft in die rauchigsten Bars der Stadt geschwemmt hat. Wo wir das Fassbier gierig wie halb verhungerte…
Interview – The Districts
The Districts will be your new favourite band if you like ragged US rock, country-tinged Americana with elements of blues and folk. If you like music made by young men who appear to have just stumbled out of bed. For…
Interview – Hiss Golden Messenger
Hiss Golden Messenger is Durham, North Carolina-based songwriter M.C. Taylor and multi-instrumentalist and recordist Scott Hirsch, who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The pair has been making music together for twenty years in various incarnations, including six records with the…
Interview – Viet Cong
It takes less than sixty seconds of album opener “Newspaper Spoons” for you to decide that Viet Cong is a winter record. The album has barely begun, and the guitar doesn’t snarl until the end of that opening minute, but…
Interview – Emily Jane White
After releasing three albums in three years (“Dark Undercoat“, 2008; “Victorian America“, 2009; “Ode To Sentience“, 2010), she wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012. Blood / Lines is a selection from these songs. The setting of…
Interview – Sleep Party People
The masked Danish electronic dream-pop outfit, started as an idea in the head of Copenhagen based multi-instrumentalist Brian Batz. Taking inspiration from the work of Boards Of Canada, David Lynch and Erik Satie, along with some classic movie soundtracks, Brian…