May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
The OH sent me this link the other night (yes, I know. We can communicate via social media even when living in the same house). Knowing how much I love Kometenmelodie 2, she guessed I’d love this steel band cover of it. Which I do. It’s gorgeous! I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying! Enjoy.
There is only one piece of music to play…
A great and rather open interview with Michael Rother in Uncut magazine, exploring his music career, focusing on his time working with Klaus Dinger on Neu! – a rather fractious and strained musical partnership by Rother’s own account, moving on to Harmonia and finally working solo. It has given me more musical off shoots to…
Another book I am about to download onto my Kindle. I must have about 200 unread books on there now. As slow a reader as I am, I used to read regularly. At least 10/12 books a year. That’s not a lot for you speedy reading types, but that was a good pace for me…and…
This is just playing over and over in my head today. Melodic and beautiful. Beautiful soothing music that is stnging my eyes with tears ?
A great piece on one of the defining albums of the 20th Century.
A fab article inside this month’s Electronic Sound magazine marking the 40th anniversary release of the 7th album by the “Godfathers of Electro-pop”.
Last night, as I picked up tools to begin working on the design for This Fear Of Gods, I thought, “You know, I never really listen to much Kraftwerk, as much as I like what I hear…I don’t take the time to just…sit and listen”. So, I decided to play Autobahn. And can I just…
Kraftwerk’s Computer Love has been playing in my head DAILY since Sir chose it as one of his tracks to play on his most recent radio show. Today, a fan I follow on Facebook shared one of my favourite pictures of him…and well, I then looked down at my laptop bag thinking, “Yes…there is my Compter…
Wolfgang is my favourite – I’m assuming he’s represented by the second from top? Better go and have a look. Assuming the “bookends” are Ralf and Florian? Florian smiling gives me the creeps! Lol