I need to ask you about one close up you choose to send me, that seems to show LPs from “F” to “H”. I wonder why you chose that, but my first though was: “It’s for John Fahey, uh!?” Working here for Concrete Shelves, I keep noticing some recurring name in shelves and conversations, and…
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Yann Novak – “I am encouraging the audience to misinterpret me in exchange for their own deeper, more personal relationship to the work”
The first shot shows a beautiful golden (painted, I suppose) amplifier with a statue (Buddha?) on it. Where does it come from? You did it? It’s gold leaf! That is actually a piece my partner Robert Crouch made years ago that I just love. The Buddha was a gift from my mother. I have casually…
Chris Forsyth – “I’m pretty deadly sincere, musically, but I have a lot of mixed emotions and a very sarcastic sense of humor”
The most evident stuff is the Velvet Underground box (just above the Dylan one): are you among the many that see Velvet as a very big influence? Or is just ‘a big box that stands out over other stuff’? Both. There’s really no one who’s not influenced by the Velvet Underground, whether they know it…
Matteo Fiorini – “I’m thinking about organizining performances in total darkness, but first I need to learn how to play without seeing a thing!”
What’s that book “How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life”? Are you influenced by Appalachian music, or blues in general? Listening to your tracks, I can say yes… what do you find in common in the spirit of black people of those places and you, now? “How bluegrass music destroyed my life” it’s the first book…
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