Interviews
Africa Express: Damon Albarn and Moonchild Sanelly

Q&A: Africa Express – Moonchild Sanelly, Muzi and Poté on new album EGOLI

by Michael Hubbard

Africa Express, the sprawling cross-cultural exchange initiated by Damon Albarn and journalist Ian Birrell in 2005 which has since spawned marathon live shows, collaborations, four…


Interview: 75 Dollar Bill – “Build the thing so you can make the sound you ...

Formed in New York in 2012, 75 Dollar Bill have been exploring a part-composed, part-improvised and highly meditative sound world for several years, eventually coming...
Interview: 75 Dollar Bill – “Build the thing so you can make the sound you ...

Interview: Richard Hawley – “We are being led by psychopaths”

Richard Hawley declares himself “well braindead” on arrival. He has been doing a day of interviews, chatting about new album Further, with each one overrunning....
Interview: Richard Hawley – “We are being led by psychopaths”

Interview: David Gray – “These days I’m about dispatches from NW3, walkin...

David Gray is in a chipper mood. There are several reasons for this – the brightness of the cold, wintry morning on which we connect...
Interview: David Gray – “These days I’m about dispatches from NW3, walkin...

Interview: Rocket Girl’s Vinita Joshi – “Music gave so much to me, I ...

Fully 20 years ago in London, after her time with Cheree and Che Records, Vinita Joshi was taking her first steps towards launching Rocket Girl...
Interview: Rocket Girl’s Vinita Joshi – “Music gave so much to me, I ...

Interview: Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper – “We really wanted that souther...

One of the more notable releases of the year so far has been Mercury Rev’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete album, aided by...
Interview: Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper – “We really wanted that souther...

Interview: Shirley Collins – ” I despair of the population who allowed them...

Shirley Collins is truly a force of nature. Now in her early 80s, the folk singer continues to make music and develop as though she...
Interview: Shirley Collins – ” I despair of the population who allowed them...

Interview: Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson – “I try not to take for granted...

What began as a way for Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to document their early musical endeavours back in 1998 has developed into a label...
Interview: Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson – “I try not to take for granted...

Interview: Bernard Butler – “I became like a sponge”

Take a look at Bernard Butler’s discography and you will be surprised. Aside from the obvious entries of his huge contribution to Suede (the first...
Interview: Bernard Butler – “I became like a sponge”

Interview: Sting & Shaggy – “It was very much an accident”

There can only be one question to begin this interview – and it is just one word. Why? Why would Sting and Shaggy hook up...
Interview: Sting & Shaggy – “It was very much an accident”

Interview: The National’s Bryce Dessner on composing, collaborations and minimali...

Bryce Dessner is in town – the Southbank Centre in London, to be more precise. Seizing the opportunity while his colleagues in The National are...
Interview: The National’s Bryce Dessner on composing, collaborations and minimali...

Interview: Erland Cooper on Orcadian ornithology and solo sounds

Erland Cooper is daydreaming. We are sat in his North London studio at the end of a hard day’s rehearsing and recording, nursing a peppermint...
Interview: Erland Cooper on Orcadian ornithology and solo sounds

Interview: Blancmange

2017 is turning into a very good year for the duo whose name is a wobbly dessert. Blancmange began their work together in 1978, and...
Interview: Blancmange

Interview: Nick Mulvey – “We’re touching the miracle of things”

“Someone said, if you want to work on your art, work on yourself. Everything you create is a reflection of where you’re at. Another way...
Interview: Nick Mulvey – “We’re touching the miracle of things”

Interview: OMD

Andy McCluskey is in high spirits. That in itself is an obvious statement, for in a couple of interviews with musicOMH he has never been...
Interview: OMD

Interview: EMA

“I don’t wanna throw shade on anybody, but there have definitely been times when people will suggest, or make it feel like, [my music’s] impenetrable,...
Interview: EMA

Interview: Jane Weaver

Jane Weaver’s story is unlike many others’. Her Britpop band Kill Laura were signed to Rob Gretton’s label Manchester Records when they were teenagers, releasing...
Interview: Jane Weaver

Interview: Rick Wakeman

Pianoman Rick Wakeman on what he’d say to Donald Trump, working with David Bowie, the mysterious excuses of train companies, and his new album Piano...
Interview: Rick Wakeman

Interview: Erasure’s Vince Clarke

What do you get a band for their 30th birthday? Mute Records have the answer, for they have been showering Andy Bell and Vince Clarke...
Interview: Erasure’s Vince Clarke

Interview: Marius Neset

Even after years of practice and a determinedly perfectionist work ethic, saxophonist and composer Marius Neset clearly still identifies an inherent degree of danger in...
Interview: Marius Neset

Interview: Yello

Septuagenarians definitely have more fun. Just ask Dieter Meier, one half of perennial electronic duo Yello, who – believe it or not – are back...
Interview: Yello
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