Nurse With Wound – Concrete Shelves

Aidan Baker – “There is so much more music now and it is so much more readily available, that it takes more effort to glean out that which is worthy of attention and appreciation”

I hope this will not sound as an offense, but your set of records looks like one of the most tidy and structured I’ve seen through this blog. I’m not referring only to the fact that all records seem to be put in strict alphabetical order, but I get some sense of ‘balanced organization’. Your…

Benjamin Finger – “Most of the albums you see in the basement had a rough life, some of them have even lost their normal shape. But I have bought new copies of most of them, those that I could still find”

I see quite a lot of albums I like, including the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch “Dead Man”, for me one of the best album of Neil Young. I’ve listened to your collaboration with Mia Zabelka and James Plotkin, with great dark reverberating atmospheres, slow guitar tunes on the first side… I see a sort of…

Simon Balestrazzi – “When it comes to experimental, obscure and unconventional music, Italian musicians were and still are among the most interesting in the world”

Well, you told me that you ran out of space for records and… they look really packed, I must admit. How are they organized? Or disorganized? In strict alphabetical order. But with a few twists… being a potentially compulsive record buyer I forced myself to a rule: no record can be placed in the “archive”…

Graham Crowley – “I can’t listen to music when I’m in the studio painting. Any response to the music would modify my judgement and behaviour”

Well, is pretty clear that among the vast collection you have, Captain Beefheart is the boss. You told me that you’ve recently also been invited to speak about the paintings of him as Don Van Vliet at The Captain Beefheart Symposium at The Bluecoat Gallery… what was your speech about, and why do…