Archive for October, 2008
The Analog Girl “Melodious Ritual”
The Analog Girl released this year her second album, the EP “Songs from Sometime Next Galaxy”, reviewed here, mastered by Mandy Parnell in London who has worked with rock and pop luminaries like Feist, Sigur Ros and Depeche Mode.At the beginning of 2008 she was tagged by Time magazine as one of the five music [...]
Interview – Fabi’s mischievous Rock & The Rogue Transmission
Monday night Logo was very quiet around 11pm. The Rogue Transmission (TRT) was rehearsing somewhere around the French Concession and I was taking a break while waiting for Fabi, TRT’s drummer, to interview him.
It was a little less than one year ago when we were talking in the same place I was waiting for him [...]
The Long-Awaited Alec Haavik Interview: Part 1
Alec Haavik has been our Featured Artist here at Layabozi for some time, now. You probably already know all about his killin’ saxophone playing and composing already, and that his band plays most every Thursday at JZ Club, and that he also features in that fine institution’s Big Band, Blue Koi Collective, and others. This [...]
Saucy
1. The first tune you loved : Mister Know-It-All - Stevie Wonder.
2. The band that opened your ears : Orbital.
3. The instrument(s) you play : Piano.
4. Your song : Hello Cleveland! – Mono.
5. Favorite song + band from your country of birth : Mediate – INXS.
6. Your Shanghai theme : Zeal [...]
Lola Dutronic “In Berlin” on the way to Shanghai
Given the high quality of the work coming out of Paris it seems that getting word of a new group can lead to either joy at the thought of hearing the next big thing, or fear at the concept that it won’t match up to it’s Parisian counterparts. Considering that some of my favourite music has [...]
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Layabozi is a web magazine about music in Shanghai today, with a sprinkle of the extra-mural and a tart sassiness—without ever being cloying. We take our inspiration from the snack which is both exotic (to us) and down home, and from which we take our name: Spicy Duck Necks. We are led by an exuberant, [...]
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Jon
1. The first tune you loved… “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” – Smashing Pumpkins.
2. The band that opened your ears… Charlie Parker.
3. The instrument(s) you play… Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet.
4. Your song… “Inner Urge” by Joe Henderson.
5. Favorite song + band from your country of birth… “East of The Sun” as played by Stan Getz.
6. Your Shanghai [...]
