After becoming an involontary psych-folk cult in early 70’s, Mark Fry took over three decades to get back to songs. Now that – after the recent release of “South Wind, Clear Sky” – it seems that he’s keeping on in songwriting, he can look back to his continuous relation with art and music. Here is his peculiar point…
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interview: A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN
“Atomos“, the second majestic album of the collaboration between Dustin O’Halloran and Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie has been published a few days ago. Dustin O’Halloran talks about how the project got started, its creative process and its future persèectives. How did you and Adam first get in touch and how do you realize you wanted to…
interview: MAGGIE ROGERS
Maggie Rogers grows up quickly. After releasing “The Echo” when she was just eighteen, in her latest “Blood Ballet” she showed the changings of an artistic maturity. Here’s her talking about it and her personal approach to music. You started making records very young: when did you started playing music? Have you got any musical…
interview: OLIVER CHERER / DOLLBOY
After many years spent exploring a wide musical range, from folktronica to ambient, under the alias Dollboy, Oliver Cherer chose to use for the first time his own name for his recente, wonderful album “Sir Ollife Leigh And Other Ghosts“. Oliver himself tells about this change and much more, in a conversation about his multifaceted artistic personality…
interview: MYRIAM GENDRON
In her debut album “Not So Deep As A Well“, Myriam Gendron showed an extraordinary skill in building something simple and out of time. The French-speaking canadian singer-songwriter talks about her special relation with music and book, not only focused on the Dorothy Parker’s poems she sang in her album, very peculiar and deeply felt. First…
interview: BARZIN
A couple of months after the release of his fourth album “To Live Alone In That Long Summer” and just before his new Italian tour, introspective Canadian songwriter Barzin talks about the creative process behind his lastest album and about his very special relation with Italy. Our talk has been focused mainly on the recent years,…
interview: MARSEN JULES
A few weeks after the release of”Beautyfear“, Martin Juhls talks about his peculiar approach to music, the upcoming releases as Marsen Jules and his projects as artist and owner of the Oktaf label. What has been your musical training? How did you come to electronic and ambient music? The instrument I started with was the…
interview: CHANTAL ACDA
After taking part in many different projects, Chantal Acda, Dutch-born but long time Belgian resident, recently released the first album under her own name. “Let Your Hands Be My Guide” is undoubltely among this year’s most deeply felt, elegant and emotional records. Here’s how she talks about the making of the album and about her…
interview: PLANTMAN
Matthew Randall’s Plantman is touring Italy for the first time. Here’s what he tells about his nostalgic indie-pop songs, as a matter of authentic passion for music. Which are your musical backgronuds? How did you get the idea of playing together as Plantman? Adam and I both played in Beatglider for 8 years since 1997,we…
interview: GREG HAINES
A few months after his latest “Where We Were“, that somehow departed his artistic profile from neoclassical experimentation, Greg Haines talks about his interest in classical and electronic music. How did you come to classical and electronic music? Are you classically trained? I didn’t have any kind of classical education – in fact I never…
interview: ANGÈLE DAVID-GUILLOU
Her pure voice first appeared in Ginger Ale, then graced several songs of Piano Magic and gave dreamy shape to her project Klima. Angèle David-Guillou just started a new and deeply personal step of her activity, through releasing for the first time a record under her own name, “Kourouma“, mainly focused on piano. Here’s how…
interview: COLLEEN
Recently back on the scene after six long years with the challenging “The Weighing Of The Heart” , Cécile Schott speaks about her long way back to making music and the new one to including vocals in her tracks. What’s been your musical education? Are you classically trained? I’m not classically trained, I took guitar…
interview: CELER
Having released a wide discography, Will Thomas Long is one of the more prolific drone artists of these years. We’ll try to discover through his own words the deep meanings of his records as Celer, the recent collaborations and the future projects of an artist whose sensibility and human experience are definitely out of common….
label spot: SECOND LANGUAGE
After three years of activity, David Sheppard and Glen Johnson of Second Language make a balance of their “particular” experience of running a unique label based on the “revolutionary” ideas of building a sonic aesthetic and keeping records alive. How did you get the idea of creating a peculiar label as Second Language? David: It…
interview: PIANO MAGIC
The new Piano Magic album, “Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet” is going to be released in June on Second Language. Glen Johnson introduce it, also talking about how his feeling about music has evolved in the last few years, from the times of “Part-Monster” and “Ovations“. In fifteen years, Piano Magic crossed many…
interview: BIRDS OF PASSAGE
“Without The World” has been, to me, an astonishing debut because of its extraordinary expressive power: has it been the result of a short time work or is it kind of a collection of songs you wrote over the years? A few of the songs were written and recorded over the period of a few…
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