Tag Archives: Eccentric

XTC was among the smartest — and catchiest — Uk pop rings to emerge from the punk and new influx explosion from the past due ’70s. Through the tense, jerky riffs of the early singles towards the lushly organized, meticulous pop of the later on albums, XTC’s music is definitely …

Marble Valley was the single task of longtime Pavement drummer Steve Western world, born Dec 8, 1966, in Charlottesville, VA. After participating in senior high school with upcoming Pavement bandmate Bob Nastanovich, he examined artwork at Virginia Commonwealth School before relocating to NEW YORK and working being a Whitney Museum …

Tx songster Henry Thomas remains to be a member of family stranger who made some very nice recordings, then returned to obscurity. Proof suggests he was an itinerant road musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Tx and possibly towards the World’s Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago …

Erik Satie was a significant French composer from your generation of Debussy. Greatest remembered for a number of sets of piano items, including Trois Gymnopédies (1888), Trois Sarabandes (1887) and Trois Gnossiennes (1890), he was championed by Jean Cocteau and helped create the popular band of French composers, Les Six, …

Durham-based singer/guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell includes a background steeped in the original music and folklore from the American Southern. The son of the folklorist, curator, and professional photographer, Fussell led a relatively rambling childhood journeying with his dad to record older bluesmen, research the social vernacular, and collaborate with Local …

An esoteric, unique indie pop task masterminded by Brandon Bethancourt, Alaska in Winter season formed in the first 2000s in Santa Fe, NM. The name offers its origins inside a semester Bethencourt spent in Alaska, where he began recording music inside a remote control cabin. He came back to New …

The jazz avant-garde has produced a large number of notable improvisers (and in addition, since improvisation is arguably the music’s defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is certainly a member of this exclusive club. Along with his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, he’s perhaps …

The term “eclectic” doesn’t quite commence to cover the diversity of styles and influences which come together within the Brooklyn-based ensemble Barbez. The band’s lineup carries a virtuoso theremin participant, a percussionist manning a marimba, and a person who conjures sounds from a PalmPilot. The group’s repertoire contains Russian folk …

Defined by one critic being a “minimal techno supergroup,” Moderat includes Sascha Band, better referred to as Apparat, as well as the duo of Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, better referred to as Modeselektor, using the three first functioning together in 2003. The trio released the 12″ Auf Kosten der …

A member from the thriving Cologne experimental music picture connected with Mouse on Mars, Nonplace Urban Field, Air Liquide, Mike Ink, as well as the A-Music, Electro Bunker, and Karaoke Kalk brands, Markus Schmickler is among the more “composerly” contributors compared to that conglomerate’s developing renown. A formal college student …