Manafonistas

Think twice if you give a book some chances to steal your time. Would all be wasted milk without surrender and thrill. Oh well, these non-fiction books promise to be high quality time thief units. After „Beatles and Drugs“ I never thought I would come across another gorgeously entertaining book about the Fab Four, but here it is, beautifully translated into German, a highlight of spring‘s releases of The C.H. Beck Verlag. The one and only, good-humoured Gregor DJ Mundt will do a whole show around Craig’s book on May 4th in Stuttgart’s last pirate radio station. And the other ones? In parts reviewed here, like Jan’s Krautrock journeys, in parts offerings for the back of the mind of some of you guys, in case you wanna dive deep into the sound worlds of Mark, Bill, or the second part of an exhilarating, exhausting installment of Jamaican music history.

Ben Wardle: Mark Hollis – A Beautiful Silence

Craig Brown: One, Two, Three, Four – Die fabelhaften Jahre der Beatles

Jan Reetze: Der Sound der Jahre

Philip Watson: Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer

Noel Hawks & Jah Floyd: A History of The Jamaican Recording Industry – Rock Steady To Rockers From Treasure Isle To Studio One 

„Aufersteh’n, ja aufersteh’n wirst du!“
(Gustav Mahler, Die Zweite Sinfonie)

Matthias Grünewald, Isenheimer Altar

Niklas Wandt is again on air, with his second live night of „Klanghorizonte“ at the Deutschlandfunk (April 16),  and on his way to the break of dawn, a lot of new and ancient music will be floating through our ears. For example: Roger Eno*, Petter Eldh, jameszoo, Kaja Draksler, Giovanni di Domenico, Neu!, Amon Düül, Hölderlin, Cluster, Jeff Parker and many others.

Jan Reetze will be reading from his book „Der Sound der Jahre“, one of the most intruiging time travel experiences through „die alte Bundesrepublik Deutschland“ in recent years, musicwise. Anyone remembering Hölderlin, the band, not the poet? The night can be reloaded for immersive listening after it happened, for the next seven days to come. 

 

*Roger Eno‘s album is out on April 22, vinyl, cd, and dl, on Deutsche Grammofon Gesellschaft. Leah Kardos, author of a fine book on David Bowie, sings the praise of „The Turning Year“ in „The Wire“, as Michael Engelbrecht has done here.