Two Great Guitar Albums: Marc Ribot, Fred Frith
Filed in Albums, Guitar, Music, Writing, October 29, 2008, 5:10 pmMarc Ribot and Fred Frith are similar guitarists in that they dabble in both austere minimalism (see Marc Ribot’s “Exercises in Futility” – Tzadik, 2008) and frenzied, choppy chaos (see Fred Frith’s work with Bill Laswell and This Heat drummer Charles Hayward in the group Massacre – esp. “Funny Valentine” – also on Tzadik, 1998) [...]
Oslo Oscillator
Filed in Music, Writing, October 24, 2008, 3:26 pmI only ever saw Oslo Oscillator play live twice in Cape Town, but this magnificent self-titled EP, produced by Dirk Hugo, makes me wish i’d done so much more often. Oslo Oscillator is the brainchild of Norwegian guitarist Kaare Ericksen (AKA Jimi), who enlisted several local musicians into creating this swirling, swoony pop gem, which [...]
Happily Printing Away…
Filed in Prints, , 3:03 pm…at Michaelis (UCT Fine Art Department)’s sublimely equipped printmaking department, getting things together for the second edition of “For Astraea”.
Pan African Space Station posters
Filed in Live, Music, Prints, Writing, October 17, 2008, 2:55 pmIt has been my honour recently to be commisioned by Ntone Edjabe, editor of the Chimurenga literary magazine, to design five posters for a series of gigs that ran as part of the Pan African Space Station “30-day music intervention” he set up with Neo Muyanga.
Among the shows I got to see was a beautifully [...]
Jaunted Haunts Press
Filed in Ella Joyce Buckley, Jaunted Haunts Pressings, Music, Ramon Galvan, Righard Kapp, October 16, 2008, 4:38 pmOwing to a healthy dose of ignorance regarding the workings of the web, I managed to delete the entire Intention Deficit blog, in the process of setting up a new database for this – Jaunted Haunts Press. Rest assured that i will be reposting key posts and links to mp3’s in due course.
The agenda of [...]
