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Hi folks,
Brand new track, Castalia, from our forthcoming album, International Treasure.

I don’t know how to embed videos, I’m afraid, but if anyone reading this does, perhaps you could re-post...

Doing this in instalments and absolutely loving it. Thank you Sean!

Laibach’s version of Across The Universe is sublime.
Maybe my favourite ever cover, it’s definitely the first one to come to mind when this question comes up.
Voivod’s Astronomy Domine, if not...

Total masterpiece

“He’ll never make it through this intense bombardment. No one could”
Goodnight to my favourite Monkee.

Banging version of one of my favourite VH tunes. What’s not to like?

Thank you! There is a lovely Tim Smith produced Aladdin which remains in our vault. I will get this stuff out eventually!

No idea, I’m afraid. I think it’s only available in the UK at the moment and will probably incur whatever dreary tax gets added to send stuff to the US.
There is an audiobook version with us...

It’s a hackneyed penny dreadful with a typical cast of ne’er do wells, reprobates and recidivists,
You’ll love it!

Hey folks.
There’s been a plan to make all The Monsoon Bassoon stuff available for a few years. In addition to our album, I Dig Your Voodoo, there’s at least another album’s worth of B-sides, EP...

^ Funnily enough they’re a band a few of my friends like and, whenever anyone tells me about them, I really like the sound of but have yet to check any out.
Thanks for the suggestion, I think I...

Re: Danielson, the album ‘Best Of Gloucester County’ is one of my favourite albums released this century. I love all his stuff bit this one has a special magic.

Re: The Gasman

That’s Christopher Reeves. He’s part of the ‘Cardiacs family’ and one of Tim’s all time favourite composers. He came on tour with us in 2007 and played this music before we came on....

One would hate to jump in at this point but hey, from my perspective at least, that’s some good listenin’

I have a nice memory of the last time I saw Roger, which I’d like to share.
It was at the Rock In Opposition festival, I can’t remember which one, I’m afraid.
Present had played an amazing set on...

Very saddened. I got to know James through sharing a bill with Magma in various bands over the years. He was great fun, generous and kind and was always up for hanging out and partying.
His playing...

I love this. Just to see the band playing Non Long, one of my favourite things by anyone, is a treasure.

^ Right on Sean! Looking forward to it.

That was great!

Ha! There’s no going back now.

Hey men,
I just finished part 1 and enjoyed it enormously. The three of you had a real breadth of knowledge. Fascinating stuff. Really looking forward to the next part.

Fantastic!

Absolutely loved this. Hoped it would be good but wasn’t expecting it to be sensational.

I’m a little biased but I think the Teleplasmiste album is lovely.

I would agree wholeheartedly were it not for Big Trouble from Eat ‘Em And Smile.

Although somewhat hampered by the 80’s production, I think it’s Roth’s greatest lyric and my favourite Vai solo. ...

If I could be reincarnated as any piece of music, it would be as the ‘riff’ at the end of Non Long from Celui où y'a Joseph

Dear Lord, about as good as it gets, and I don’t just mean music, I...

Piece Of Mind remains one of my favourite sounding rock records. Adrian Smith’s rhythm guitar and the drums especially.

And just to complete the cosmic circle....
Doninique’s last album was mastered by Bob Drake and called?

Dad Rock

Johnny 4 were a young band from Chichester, who were managed by a friend of mine. I’d seen them in the mid 2000’s a couple of times and enjoyed them but, having heard a couple of recordings they’d...

Hi Sean, Rob and Chad.

I loved my lone experience of Nearfest. It was here I first met my friend for life Steve Feigenbaum, the wonderful Paul Sears (who was one of my favourite drummers) and...

Hi!
The interview I did for this festival, largely about my time in Cardiacs and especially about the Rotten Shed film, is now online here.

https://youtu.be/5O5g6-06QDc

Hi. Thank you for sharing such kind thoughts about my album.

I’m a little reluctant to bump this, inasmuch as it might look somewhat self-congratulatory, but I am all too aware that it is no...

Sorry, I think there’s crossed wires here. Tim is very much not well enough to oversee things.
The idea is to finish the album if/ when he’s ready, which we will, but it’s not imminent.

Charlie Looker has also recorded a set, I believe.

Well, it’s from a lyric to one of the songs.

Being on a jag, is like ‘Hey, I’m on a real Daniel Clowes jag at the moment’ and being hip to that.

It means something to me although not...

A lovely album. A rare ‘LP that plays at 45 rpm’ record.

I am totally into this album.

You bet I did, Frank!
Yeah, it’s all still there to watch on my ‘Kavus Torabi’ Facebook page.

Holy release day!

My album, Hip To The Jag, is out today.
You can listen to it and/or buy it on LP, CD and lossless download from my Bandcamp page here-...

Ok, shameless self-publicity alert...

My album, Hip To The Jag, is out today.
You can listen to it and/or buy it on LP, CD and lossless download from my Bandcamp page here-...

I sure did. It was fantastic

I bought Les Sillons de la Terre from These Records in the early ‘90’s, on the strength of the Fred Frith connection, and absolutely loved it.
What a remarkable band.

Daevid had asked me to join Gong a couple of weeks earlier, having never heard me play, so this gig felt like an audition.
For years I used to do a kind of gliss thing with a drumstick, a la Sonic...

^ I was lucky enough to get a promo.
Heads up...it’s every bit as good as the other two. Really!
I can’t get enough of it.

So far for me-

JG Thirlwell/ Simon Steensland: Oscillospira

Aksak Maboul: Figures

Dear lord. This Thirlwell/ Steensland album is ridiculously good. A total marriage of their two composition styles, Thirlwell’s production and mix is just sensational.
Absolutely magnificent.

Made under lockdown this week, here’s a video for Cemetery Of Light, one of the more upbeat numbers.

https://youtu.be/u_YbgWDWtbY


The album is available through Burning Shed and will be...

^ Man. Waiting for this to show up.
I’m a massive fan of both these guys so the thought of a collaboration with the added bonus of Agren is a dream.

Hey! I’m fine. We haven’t got it. It was just before lockdown we imagined we might catch it.

Hi Ian,
Unfortunately this is down to some rather unprofessional behaviour on my part.

The release date is May 22nd but the physical stock turned up at mine at the end of March as things were...

Thanks for your generosity over at Bandcamp.
This Friday, 27th March, at 6pm GMT I’ll be staging a concert from my living room and live-streaming it from my Facebook page (Kavus Torabi)
I’ll be...

Please tell!
Setzer was the reason I picked up the guitar and I still love his playing. As do I Bill Nelson.

Hey!
Happy ‘No commission on Bandcamp day’ everyone.
I’ve uploaded The Sentinel, an exclusive instrumental which didn’t make it on to the album. You can pay what you like for it or have it for...

Fun fact about that video.
It was filmed in a booth at my favourite pub on my 40th birthday.
We filmed it 3 times over the course of the evening. This was the second time, which was the best. ...

Hi. I’d just like to say thanks for the kind words and the continued support.
I’m really looking forward to you hearing the album.



It looks like it does apply, so that’s terrific news.
In...

Yeah, it’s been talked about. I still feel a bit funny about crowdfunding. I have yet to cross that line.

Regarding Knifeworld, it’s been a mixture of being so busy with Gong and the difficulty of getting eight busy musicians calendars to synchronise.

It comes down to this and economics, Knifeworld...

Thank you! I wasn’t going to bring ‘that’ up, but I’ve just watched the next two months of Gong/ Steve Hillage work evaporate in front of me and I’m expecting that to extend to...who knows?
And I’m...

Hi folks.
Apologies for the spammy nature of this post but these are strange times and I know this will be of interest to some.

My debut solo album, Hip To The Jag, is available to pre-order on...

Finally giving this album the attention it deserves. I think it’s lovely. I really liked his previous album, Peasant, but this one has got under my skin more profoundly.