Tag Archives: 1970s – 1980s

Pierre Guerin (vocals, classical guitar, accordion), Toby Cinnsealac (tin flute, recorders, clarinet) and fiddlers Chris MacRaghallaigh and Elliot Selick shaped Barde in Montreal in 1975. They initial documented their Celtic rock and roll on the 1977 self-titled record. Pictures (1979) and Voyage (1983) implemented, but by enough time the last …

The Golden Eagles certainly are a Mardi Gras Indian tribe that performs in the original vocal and percussion style.

Shusha Guppy channeled the music customs of her local Iran to produce a few of the most beguiling and innovative folk information from the vocalist/songwriter period — she actually is maybe even better known on her behalf award-winning memoir, The Blindfold Equine: Memories of the Persian Childhood. Given birth to …

Led by Prince Lincoln Thomas, the former lead singer of early-’70s reggae strap, the Tartans, the Royal Rasses possess remained focused on their root base reggae sound. Many of their tracks, including “Mankind” and “Like the Way IT OUGHT TO BE,” have grown to be roots anthems.

This pop threesome of Debsey Wykes (vocals, bass), Hester Smith (drums), and Rachel Bor (guitar) formed a sharp contrast against the ruling post-punk and angst accumulating in London around 1979 with bands like Gang of Four getting heralded in the favorite press as the best things. Originally, Dolly Mix was …

It’s a little-known reality that a long time before the ex – members of Pleasure Division find the New Purchase moniker because of their subsequent group, a music group called New Purchase existed in LA. Hardly several unknowns, previous Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton produced the short-lived music group in the …

Dynamic between 1979 and 1984, Tronics was the mostly single automobile for the internal workings of London musician Ziro Baby. Baby began in Star Canines, several kids reported to be somewhere within a glam music group and a road gang. Star Canines failed to obtain much with 16, Baby produced …

Night time was a loose, L.A.-centered assemblage of session positives including Stevie Lange, who sang in back of Graham Bonnet and Elton John; Chris Thompson, who added to War from the Worlds and worked well for Manfred Mann’s Globe Music group (MMEB); and key pad wizard Nicky Hopkins, who used …

Vocalist P.H. Mart, drummer Kevin Wilkinson, bassist Martin Cooper, and guitarists Bobby Carr and Bream had been Those Naughty Lumps. The British post-punk group debuted on Zoo in 1979 using the Iggy Pop’s Coat solitary. Another Liverpool label, Open up Vision, released the four-song EP Down in the Zoo in …

A Japan techno-pop trio of the first ’80s led by singer/songwriter Masami Tsuchiya, Ippu-Do was the missing hyperlink between Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra and England’s Japan — neither as purely electronic as the former nor as prettily atmospheric as the last mentioned. (YMO’s Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborated with Tsuchiya on his …