“Blaster” Al Ackerman is the greatest writer you’ve never read. But his new posthumous collection, The Complete Works from Lost & Found Times 1979—2005, as compiled by John M. and C. Mehrl Bennett of Luna Bistonte Prods, gives you no more excuses to keep seconding a writer who deserves to be at the top of […]
[Continued from Part 2] GT: Your work, if it’s anything, is complicated and it’s something I love about your work. I get bored very easily with much of what’s created by most people. JH: Yeah, me too. GT: You hear it and you know what it’s doing before it’s even started. JH: I know. I’m […]
[Continued from Part 1] JH: Well, what did you want to talk about with Mexican Blue? GT: I’ve been trying to figure out this album of yours for years. JH: Whoa, what have you been trying to figure out? GT: I’ve been trying to figure out why it has just wrapped around me. It feels […]
Jolie Holland has a new record called Wine Dark Sea. Due for release some time next year, it’s sort of a return, but in the same it’s a continued expansion of an ever-widening grip on the varied elements of music that make up her universe. I spoke with her a week before going into the […]
Recently I got ahold of music for the BBC documentary series Africa and was immediately struck by its quality and talent. Composer Sarah Class, a veteran of BBC as well as many other ventures into disparate territories, manages a landscape of orchestration that is beautiful, compelling, and far beyond what I’ve grown to expect from […]
