Monday, January 25, 2010

Axolotl Roadkill and other reading suggestions

- Der Tagesspiegel (23 January 2010) writes about ("Axolotl Roadkill"), seventeen year old Helene Hegemann´s first book. The book seems to be peppered with rock references, and Robert Wyatt is in there somehow. In Germany they say it like this: "Hinzu kommen Popmusik-Referenzen mit hohem Retro-Anteil. Einige Kapitel sind nach Zitaten von Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen oder Steve Miller benannt. Patti Smith, Kim Gordon, Robert Wyatt spuken durch die Dialoge, und ein Hit der britischen Beat-Combo The Zombies ist an einer Schlüsselstelle als emotional aufgeladene Geste inszeniert".
- Paul Morley on the new hyped music. Will it survive, will the artists bloom, will there be another Wyatt (OK I´m pushing it a bit here)? Read all about it in The Guardian (24 January 2010).
- Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) "obsessing about Robert Wyatt"
- Swedish artist Nicolai Dunger names Ivor Cutler the coolest artist ever in ABCNYHETER (in Norwegian).
- Stuart Nicholson interviews Jan Garbarek in jazz.com.

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