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The music magazine I grew up with comes back from the dead (RifRaf)!  There's a new issue out which featured lost music gems.  This week's album is, shockingly, not rock music! This is early electronic music and probably one of the first ambient album releases ever by the Canadian Mort Garson.  The album was released in 1976 after the eccentric musician had been one of the first owners of a Moog after meeting Bob Moog in 1967.  For full details, read RifRaf (dutch only)! Support the last of the independent music magazines here:  https://www.wearerifraf.be Mort Garson - Mother Eearth's Plantasia (1976). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vrsO3_HpU Darn, can't help it.... AC/DC - Riff Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXbMB9R5-0

You most likely know the song Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.  Or so I thought. So you start reading into what Wikipedia has to say. Then you end up reading an article in Rolling Stone ( https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/flashback-johnny-cash-releases-ring-of-fire-204815/ ). So the song seems to be co-written by June Carter, who would later on become Johnny's wife.   She sang with her sisters, hence sister Anita recording the song "Love's the ring of fire".   The title supposedly being an underlined passage of a poem by her uncle.  Anita didn't get successful with the song, but what a voice she has! Anita Carter - (Love's) Ring of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWGsaorj6U Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY

This the first in a series where I will try to show you songs where the cover is way more known or remarkable as the original.  This series attempts to show that much of  the knowledge we have might be wrong.  I've learned this by watching QI on the BBC for many years: what we believe to be a fact today might in the future no longer be.  Hence the retro adjusting of end scores of old shows when facts change.  This is massively important, and I am convinced, that it is a key feature of successful businesses: to be able to change your mind based on new evidence.  I see it as a strength to be able to change your mind when facts are presented rather than doggedly staying with one's story, just because changing feels like losing face. In this post I'm taking you back to when I was writing my thesis with a friend (whom I fail to keep close in life, a serious character flaw of mine) in 1998.   We had cable tv in my room and had MTV on all the time.  At that time MTV had songs i

There's a new song by this hidden gem called "Son of Town Hall", a two man band with a fantastic set of voices.  I've seen them live at Dranouter in 2018 and they were a revelation.  Apparently there's a new album called "California" coming soon, maybe by the time this post appears we will know more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njfMjkju_i0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TLGUDJgpo

Remember Arthur C. Clarke's Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyissey?  For those who only watch films, you will know Stanley Kubrick's version.  This is one of the few times where the movie is as good as the book.  Anyway, calling from Switzerland is today's band The Kompressor Experiment .  I've come across this EP while randomly roaming the interwebs on a Saturday evening in July.  I am sitting here now, in a pitch dark room with open windows so that the chill evening breeze caresses my neck while I labour over this post.   The Monolith EP meanwhile keeps me company. The noise isolating phones allow me to focus on the music and the hot summer street noise is not messing up the experience. The EP  refers to the book/film and tries to capture that enigmatic and almost threatening presence of the Monolith.  Mystery and suspense are definitely part of this music. Why did I choose this one?  Because it fits my mood, dark, sometimes heavy, with a clean guitar melody or a lig