Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Not dissimilar to Shiniseki e no Unga, another album covered in this column, After Dinner’s Paradise of Replica is […]
Fossil Records: Tim Maia’s Racional Vol. 2
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Though thought of as a national treasure in his home country, Tim Maia remains something of an obscurity in […]
Fossil Records: Guernica’s Shinseiki e no Unga
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Sometimes you write a review of something and it reads more like a weird bedtime story than a critical […]
Fossil Records: Lee Hazlewood’s Requiem for an Almost Lady
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. In the beginning there was nothing. But it was kinda fun to watch nothing grow. In the end there […]
Fossil Records: Aphrodite’s Child’s It’s Five O’Clock
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Aphrodite’s Child didn’t put out “fossil records” so much as they were a full blown “fossil band”: best known […]
Fossil Records: Igor Wakhevitch’s Hathor
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. There’s a certain type of music that I’ve taken to referring to as “story music”—stuff that lends itself to […]
Fossil Records: Theme from Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation
If My Mine’s Stone, discussed in this column two weeks back, is the type of ‘80s dance music which befits a party in a teen movie, the tracks found on Theme From Radius: An Italo Spacedance Compilation are more in tune with the cocaine-and-strippers aesthetic of the era, the type of music you might expect […]
Fossil Records: GAA’s Auf Der Bahn Zum Uranus
In all honesty, I’m a bit surprised it’s taken me as long as it has to feature a progressive rock album in this column: given how quickly prog flamed out, and the low standing in popular music it carries to this day, it’s no surprise that there are dozens if not hundreds of records from […]
Fossil Records: My Mine’s STONE
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Let’s be real: not every out-of-print album is going to be a profound work of heartrending majesty. Sometimes, for […]
Fossil Records: Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Sometimes, for whatever reason, great art slips past audiences and remains woefully underappreciated. Which is why we’ve created an essay series called Fossil Records, devoted to helping people discover lost and obscure work that never got its due. Ambient music, though conceptually simple, perpetually walks a tricky line: make it too minimal and it risks being boring […]