Brian and Roger Eno aim to take things slow with their new collaboration Mixing Colours. Roger, a centerpiece in the ambient genre in his own right, has been working in the music industry since the early 1980s. While not procuring as much…
From the Record Crate: Laraaji – “Ambient 3: Day of Radiance” (1980)
During a performance in Washington Square Park in the late 1970s, Laraaji was looking through the money he had made and saw a little note among the rattling change. It said, “Dear sir, please pardon this scraggly piece of paper,…
From the Record Crate: David Bowie – “Heroes” (1977)
David Bowie released “Heroes” exactly nine months after his previous record Low. “Heroes” is the second of what would later be deemed the “Berlin Trilogy,” because of its conception and recording taking place in Berlin’s Hansa Studio by the Wall. It…
Melody on Music: Sleeping Beauty
Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…
From the Record Crate: David Bowie – “Low” (1977)
Between addiction and sobriety, between indulgence and discipline, David Bowie traveledl to Berlin as a way of imposing change upon himself. It is fitting that the album, then, contains a famous stylistic split. The pop songs of the first half…