Making this album, is also an occasion for me to study about the music I’m making, and find out more about musicians. While researching JJ Cale (I’ve been forever a fan of the…
Category: Music
Heavy metal, and wood
One of the sonic features of Dutch historical centers has always been the Draaiorgel, literally “Turn Organ” (it used to be crank-operated, today they are all electric). It’s a huge, multi-timbric instrument…
Who plays who?
Among musicians, there is an old, quasi magical idea about musical instruments: that they have tunes in them. I often heard it said among guitar players, as in: “This guitar has a…
Of all people, Meryl Streep
I don’t know if you saw it, but I found Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech of the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille award (at the Golden Globes) quite amazing (I’m referring to the part…
A far l’amore è nato Ciro
A very good way to find out where House (and often Techno) comes from, is to slow it down radically and hear what happens. It almost always works, and if you’re a…
Doing Doing
Since I’ve dropped out of the italian cultural landscape (if I ever was actually in) and moved elsewhere, a few people were kind enough to ask what I was doing, and I’ve…