You should probably know this: I secretly adore this band Black Mountain. Their Vancouver-meets-high-desert-rock sound hits me in the yes-yes place every time. “Space to Bakersfield” is the closing track on their latest album, “IV” (2016), and is arguably the best god-damned soul jam I’ve heard in a long, long time. This live session recording …
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Amen
Adverb for agreement and consent. Amen.Statement of “so be it”. Amen.Punctuation to a long prayer. Amen.That is the past. These are our hopes. This is our intent. Amen.Please let us move on, dream on, go forward into the dark night. Amen.Pushing to the sunrise of our souls, of our world. Amen.Leaving all our shadows behind. …
Is Life
I never thought I’d say this, but Banco de Gaia is life. Actually, Toby Marks is a decent fella who has a history of making solid music regardless of fanfare. All told, I can totally respect the guy for being out on the fringes. He keeps going. Given my own history of nothingness, I have …
Deep-Fifty-Fifty
The Roland D-50 is a very popular synthesizer produced in 1987. I found one years ago in a pawn shop and have enjoyed it quite a bit since. Lately I’ve taken to learning a little bit about it so I can actually program the thing instead of relying on the stock patches (some of them …
Never Delivers
Been digging on an electronic music style called Vaporwave, which is a broad term describing music that’s generic but hopeful, yet entirely forgettable if it was in the background. It’s like ambient, but with a beat (usually). It’s named after “vaporware” which is a kind of software that promises but never delivers. It has the …