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David Bowie and the Droog Superior: Violence and the Dame
Memories of the young Bowie are of his glamour, otherworldliness, and gay / bisexual advocacy. But that's not the whole story – another part being…
 • Andy Wilson
The Light That Burns So Very Bright: A Playlist For MAGA Erasure
The victims of US racism had revealed to them the truth of their society. In refining that knowledge into music, they built some of the great human and…
RBE 40 Years Later: Ruach Demos
After a pause from 1982 to 2025, recent technology has made me interested again in the kind of electronica inspired equally by Lee Perry and the…
 • Andy Wilson
Dance to Your Nobodaddy: Tríd an bpoll gan bun at Sadler's Wells
Folk musician Sam Amidon and Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa's new piece, inspired by Blake's divine dad-gone-bad, Nobodaddy, tells stories of…
 • Andy Wilson
Spectral Promises: Electronic Music 1970-1990
Moving from Stockhausen to Nurse With Wound, in an episode soundtracked by Iancu Dumirtrescu, Bowie and Throbbing Gristle, here's a critical account of…
 • Andy Wilson
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Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Not Stockhausen
A review of David Stubbs, Fear of Music: Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen? Why do people flock to see abstract art but run screaming from…
 • Andy Wilson
Fruit Flies Like a Banana: Extract from Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." An extract from my book Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975.
 • Andy Wilson
Gabriel Kahane, America and the Book of Job
A friend asked me to comment on the mention of the Book of Job is a recent song, Gabriel Kahane's Empire Liquor Mart, from The Apartment Sessions. It…
 • Andy Wilson
The Beautiful One Has Come: Reflections From a Damaged Jukebox
As I'm preparing to write about Job, I thought I'd still the temporary silence with some of the music that set me off: almost a century of esemplastic…
 • Andy Wilson
Kali, Chaos Magic and the KLF: On Black Holes and the Rites of Mumufication
A talk on the KLF's rite of MuMufication, and the background to it all in Chaos Magic and Discordianism. First I note the relevance of Kali, and her…
 • Andy Wilson
Mike Westbrook, Phil Minton & The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble with Sue Lynch: Intimations of a Future for Blake’s Music
In November 2022, The Mike Westbrook Band and The Lo-Fi Improvised Music Ensemble performed settings of Blake’s texts that raise questions about how…
 • Andy Wilson
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