One of my all-time favorite albums is Peter Gabriel’s “Security” (sometimes just known as Peter Gabriel IV). Here are segments from an almost 50 minute long, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album.  This comes from the long-running British TV program The South Bank Show.
Haunting Ethiopian flutes… field-recorded audio fragments from a local junkyard… the outrageously expensive Fairlight [...]

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I must have listened to this album nonstop for a whole year — my senior year of high school. Another bootleg cassette purchase from my favorite Blok M shopping district in Jakarta. Every night, after arguing with my sister about whose turn it was on our old school Sony Walkman, I’d crank Power Corruption [...]

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Continuing with my occasional ramblings on albums that I love… Manu Dibango’s Gone Clear was the first reggae album I heard. Now that in itself is an odd statement: Manu and reggae? He’s known as the soul makossa man, the jazz saxophonist, original purveyor of African-style jazz and funk. But Manu and reggae?
Well a [...]

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I remember feeling a little disturbed the first time I saw the cover of Talking Heads 1980 release Remain in Light. With the red pixellated face paint covering David, Jerry, Chris and Tina’s faces, and the upside down A’s in the band’s name, the album seemed to be commenting on so many things: technological [...]

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I realized recently that I don’t listen to too much new music nowadays. I attribute this to two things. One, I haven’t been making much of an effort to seek out new stuff. Two, when I’m working on my own music I tend to block out other music. It’s natural to have your sound be [...]

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