Legendary Only Ones front man at Islington Academy 19-2-2025 Take Me Home: Sometimes I go walkin’ in the dark I’m waiting for fate to jump out at me Feels like I’m walkin’ in the shoes of another man Someone who refused to ever follow the plan
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Let’s Go To The Dance: A 60-minute compilation of 20 rocksteady songs from 1967–68, including “Let’s Go To The Dance” and “All My Loving”
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In this historical video excerpt, David Vorhaus talks about two of his analogue inventions - the MANIAC analogue sequencer, and the Kaleidophon from 1979.
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Seminal Romney Marsh Grindcore lunacy from the mid 80’s - “Septik Breth” were two of my friends with a cheap keyboard, a drum machine, some guitars and basses and a karaoke cassette machine in a garage somewhere in Littlestone. Excavated Releases of “Septik Breth” and “Bonjela”
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A collection of songs created by two American expatriates living in London in 1980. Recorded in their living room on a Teac tape machine, Synthesis was entirely composed and performed on a mail order Serge synthesizer kit that Planetary Peace (the husband and wife duo of Will & Kalima Sawyer) had built themselves.
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Tala Vala combine experimental recording methods bridging marginalised genres, synths, brass and strings, jagged guitars and primal percussion. Both the Ep and album were recorded on 2 inch tape and mixed by Jake Jackson who engineering credits include Mica Levi and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.
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Charlene Knight recorded as a solo artist on Pamela Records in 1961 with the sides_If You Pass Me By / If My Dreams Come True. and in 1962 as Bob O’Donnell & The Tru-Tones_Shy Boy / The Magic Trumpet.
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BBC 6 Music - Zakia Sewell - Dream Time
Zakia Sewell is a hidden gem on Sunday evenings on BBC6 Music. 2 hours of themed and expansive radio with an emphasis on dreams.
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The Rainy Daze was a psychedelic pop group formed in Denver, Colorado in 1965. They were composed of singer/guitarist Tim Gilbert with his brother Kip on drums, lead guitarist Mac Ferris, bassist Sam Fuller, and keyboardist Bob Heckendorf.
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By the time drummer Pete La Roca recorded his debut album Basra in 1965 he had already appeared on 9 Blue Note sessions as a sideman and spent time in bands led by Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. But it was another tenor titan, Joe Henderson, that La Roca brought in as the sole horn voice to front a dynamic quartet that was completed by what liner note writer Ira Gitler called “one of the most attuned rhythm sections in jazz” featuring bassist Steve Swallow and pianist Steve Kuhn. The resulting album is one of the great underrated gems of the Blue Note catalog featuring an expansive 6-track set that includes 3 compositions by La Roca (“Basra” “Candu” “Tears Come from Heaven”), Swallow’s tune “Eiderdown,” “Malagueña” by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, and a stunning ballad performance of the standard “Lazy Afternoon.”
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