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2015 14 Feb.

Instrumental 14 & 15

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„With its plaiting phrases of reverse guitar dancing on a bed of reverb-soaked noise, “Instrumental 14” captures Pearce eliciting images of the skyline tearing opening at twilight, clumsy evacuations in slow-motion and a growing sea of people cheering on the end; a drunken congregation on the coast. Better still, at just under ten minutes – fittingly, the longest track here – closer “Instrumental 15” swells its beatific splendor one last time, a fizzling out of the final Catherine wheel before flickering away into another faded greeting with oblivion, wordless and without goodbyes.“

2015 14 Feb.

Appetites

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Put on the headphones, take a red guitar or yellow keyboard and then the appetites will do the rest. It rises up from the cellular blueprint of your memories. What have you grown up with, what was the food for your soul? Switching through YouTube, having a look and a listen. An impressive amount of songs cumulated in the recent years in the personal jukebox, without a need for shelfing them, saved on the HD of the PC. Great joy it is: with a sense of surfing and a strong will of clearing up the mysteries of architecture in the chords, the melody-lines, the rhythm structures of music. The favorites are tagged as claims, you´ll treasure deconstructed stuff as trophies. Reclaiming a swamp while diving deeper. Sherlock in his home-studio tries to figure it out. Getting the codes, the hints, the traces. The thrill is: he won´t look at the readymade sheets or the lecture-clips that demonstrate. The autodidactic dilletante is covering and discovering it on his own, listening with the lust of conquering the unclear, unknown. Wether it´s Alanis Morisette (songs like „Hands Clean“, „Big Sur“, „You Learn“ and „Ironic“), Fleetwood Mac or Steely Dan … even Toto, The Allman Brothers or Brazilian Music do it. Apropos: Steely comes from stolen and there is so much worth a robbery crime in this World of Pop.

2015 14 Feb.

Sam Andrew

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Wie ich eben lese, ist gestern der Gitarrist Sam Andrew an den Folgen einer Herz-OP verstorben. Vor ungefähr 15 Jahren gab es auf einer Mailingliste über Jefferson Airplane, der ich folgte, einen Thread über Janis Joplin, und ich hatte dazu irgendetwas gesagt. Daraus ergab sich ein ziemlich langer Offlist-Email-Tratsch mit einem gewissen Sam über Janis. Da er immer nur mit „Sam“ zeichnete, wusste ich zunächst gar nicht, mit wem ich es zu tun hatte. Erst nach einigen Tagen, als ich das „bbhc.com“ in seiner Email-Adresse kapiert hatte („Big Brother & The Holding Company“), dämmerte mir plötzlich, dass ich mit einem von Janis‘ engsten Freunden sprach. Ich habe das nie vergessen.

Ja, das Internet. Immer für Überraschungen gut.

Gute Reise, Sam.


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