“Ghost Box is the debut release by The Raudive, a band named after the scientist Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian writer and intellectual with a particular fascination with parapsychology. His “Ghost Box” was based on an idea that by recording dead air, or the white noise emenating from an ill-tuned radio, you could pick up the [...]

“Check out this stylish black and white picture of me, I look fucking great don’t I!! Yeah, I do!! That’s a Fender Jagstang I’m playing, possibly the coolest looking guitar in the world, it was designed by Kurt Cobain, and that means that I am as cool as Kurt, but he shot himself when he [...]

“Scottish-born, Yorkshire-bred Shona Foster left the desolate beauty of the moors and travelled south to Brighton, and set about bringing to life the songs that would characterise her unique musical direction. Shona’s work defies easy categorisation…”
Listening to this E.P. is a fascinating experience as it reminds me of some of my favourite female singer/songwriters;  Sophie [...]

“Welcome to the world of frYars. A universe of duelling strangers, deserted lakehouses, speeding cars, and a lonely mail-order bride. A place of violent encounters with bakers, where simpletons and the treachorous mingle in a dreamland of the absurd. A place where a blissfully electro-pop song can hide dark and turbulent lyrical depths under it’s [...]

A couple of years ago a friend in London and avid myspacer emailed me about a female singer/songwriter she had seen performing live on her favourite website. Having never received an album to review and not being a Radio 1 or 2 fan, Pallot passed me by. Now sometimes this can be a good thing [...]

John Blum (piano), William Parker (bass), Sunny Murray (drums)
IN THE SHADE OF SUN is released on 4 October 2009 on Ecstatic Peace!
John Blum was born in New York City on April 15, 1968 and has been a mainstay of the free-jazz community there for over 15 years. While in Europe in 1992, he recorded with [...]