Sean Westergaard

Sean Westergaard was created in the wilds of Phoenix, AZ, time before it became the bustling metropolis it really is today, although the majority of his youth was spent only outdoors Chicago. His early musical education was predicated on longer vehicle journeys and eight-track tapes, using the Beatles getting especially prominent. Finding Frank Zappa in primary school through a family group friend was simply the start of his still energetic “odd music” obsession, which includes since spiraled to add dozens of Sunlight Ra albums, Conlon Nancarrow, and an excessive amount of foreign-language psych. A fairly extended undergraduate education on the School of Michigan led to a geological sciences level, which clearly pertains to his like of rock and roll music. During his last senior calendar year, Westergaard became included being a free-form disk jockey on WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor, a posture he still retains well over 2 decades afterwards. Upon graduation, he proved helpful for a lot more than a decade in the record/small disk retail globe (much towards the joy of his parents), but were able to look for a “true work” as an AMG editor in 2000. In what of 1 of his heroes, “Music may be the greatest.” Musical FAQ First Record Bought: Eight-track: Caribou; LP: YET ANOTHER Music group from L.A. Initial Concert: Elton John’s Goodbye Yellowish Brick Street tour Preferred Music Film: The Wizard of Oz Preferred Music Publication: Space May be the Place: The Lives and Instances of Sunlight Ra Preferred Songwriter: Frank Zappa Preferred Maker: Bob Thiele/Teo Macero (at the mercy of change) Preferred Arranger: Sunlight Ra/Gil Evans Preferred Record Label: Impulse! (at the mercy of change) Preferred Music Article writer: Eugene Chadbourne Preferred Journal: Mojo Preferred Recording Cover: Playboys/Agharta (Japanese edition) Favorite Teenager Idol: Bobby Sherman Vocalist Who Makes YOUR SKIN LAYER Crawl: Mariah Carey/Josh Groban Vocalist Who ENABLES YOU TO Swoon: Bryan Ferry Recording YOU POSSESS That NOBODY Else Will: Lure from the Desert Traditional Album YOU POSSESS But CAN’T STAND: Blue Teach Artist You’re Likely to Like But Don’t: Leonard Cohen A Couple of Albums I REALLY LIKE That YOU ALMOST CERTAINLY Haven’t Noticed (in no particular purchase) Sunlight Ra Nights the Crimson Moon John Convenient/Ali Akbar Khan Karuna Supreme Brij Bhushan Kabra Lure from the Desert Pete LaRoca Sims Turkish Ladies at the Shower Frank Zappa Rest Dirt (unique LP edition) Sunlight Ra Sleeping Beauty Shivkumar Sharma Contact from the Valley Sunlight Ra On Jupiter Frank Zappa Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Acoustic guitar Jody Harris/Robert Quine Get away Doctor Umezu Music group with Kiyoshiro Risk Seikatsu Kojo Iinkai Orchestra THAT IS Music Is usually This? Erkin Koray Elektronik Turkuler Wayne Horvitz/The Chief executive Bring Yr Video camera Sonny Sharrock Acoustic guitar Nicky Skopelitis Following to Nothing at all Mike Keneally Hat Tipographica God Says I CANNOT Dance Highways to Space Travel Ballad Jazz Waltz Henry Kaiser It’s an excellent Existence Kiss Me Screaming Kiss Me Screaming Hampton Grease Music group Music to consume