August 2020

The band ALL THEM WITCHES achieves much more with one man less

Although music has much in common with mathematics, sometimes the art of sound confidently defies mathematical laws. An example of this is the American band All Them Witches. On their last album they performed as a quartet with guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, on the new CD "Nothing As The Ideal" they lost the keyboard player, and yet they sound fuller and more diverse than ever before. For drummer and band founder Robby Staebler this is the logical consequence of a natural development.

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JG THIRLWELL and SIMON STEENSLAND explore macro and micro worlds on "Oscillospira

The New York-based Australian JG Thirlwell has regularly released exciting records between postpunk, experimental rock and noise since the early 1980s, for example with his one-man project Foetus and with Wiseblood. He has also made a name for himself as a classical composer (e.g. for the Kronos Quartet) and as a remixer (e.g. for Faith No More and Nine Inch Nails). His current album "Oscillospira", which he recorded with the Swedish multi-instrumentalist Simon Steensland, is now possibly his most impressive and fuses avant-garde prog with modern chamber music

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With their debut, the English newcomers ANOTHER SKY rehearse the uprising

It was overdue: Another Sky from London are the first band of the Generation Fridays For Future/Brexit/Black Lives Matter generation to get a contract with a major label and use this platform to make their views heard - just like the folkbards of the American civil rights movement and the punk rockers of the 70s did: They serve up protest music for the army of the young frustrated

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The Art Of Sysyphus Vol. 110

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1970 - Awakening in a year of ruins

It was the zero hour after the turbulent 60s: The year 1970 gave the furious starting signal for the decade of rock. When the last calendar page of the Woodstock year 1969 was torn off, the dreams of the Love & Peace generation were already lying on the floor like broken toys. Because one thing was clear: a new society could not be built with all-encompassing love and mind-expanding drugs alone. Nevertheless, the impulses of youth rebellion continued to have an effect and gradually changed the culture of the Western world.

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BOB DYLAN - Legend with many facets

Bob Dylan's back. Eight years after "Tempest", his last album with his own songs, the Nobel Prize winner presents, seemingly out of nowhere, a new work that hardly anyone had expected. After three tiring American Songbook albums, "Rough And Rowdy Ways" is also a qualitative surprise: a multi-layered, thoroughly successful late work by someone who has remained young forever.

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BLUES PILLS - "We think that we now know exactly what we want ourselves"

A band has found itself new: "Holy Moly!" is the third longplayer of the Blues Pills, and this time they had the ambition and the know-how to do and produce almost everything themselves. In two phone calls with frontwoman Elin Larsson at the beginning of the year and a few weeks ago, they not only talked about the new album to be released on August 21st, but also about the departure of guitarist Dorian Sorriaux and his band-internal successor.

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GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA - Under high voltage

"Konkret Musik" is the name of the sixth studio album of the instrumental dervishes of Gösta Berling's saga. Concretely this means: The Swedes create an even more intensive sound cosmos than before.

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STEVE HOWE - Old hippie ideals with new topicality

Yes, the Corona crisis has also thwarted the calculation: Their "Relayer" tour had to be postponed until spring 2021. At least now guitarist Steve Howe shortens the waiting time with his new solo album "Love Is". In the interview he talked about love of the earth as a life principle, Alexander von Humboldt and his pleasure in using his voice in addition to his guitar.

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URIAH HEEP - Forever 49

Uriah Heep, active since 1969 (originally under the name Spice), belongs to the founding generation of British hard rock alongside Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and UFO. Had it been up to the US-American "Rolling Stone", the band would not have even made it to the end of the historic rock year 1970 - that's how devastating the critique of the influential magazine was about their debut album "Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble".

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