Vic Mars
Musician Vic Mars takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
Ananda Shankar ‘Ananda Shankar’ (Reprise, 1970)
In Ananda Shankar’s relatively short lifetime, the Indian sitar player was never afraid to push boundaries.
Atka
Pop polymath deals a debut doozy
Donna Summer ‘Once Upon A Time’
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Donna Summer’s ‘Once Upon A Time’
Andrew Weatherall: “He was the funniest man I’d ever met”
An extract from ‘Punkadelic!’, a forthcoming book detailing Nina Walsh’s madcap adventures with Andrew Weatherall, including some epic high jinks at the legendary acid house club Shoom
Pierre Bastien
On ‘Baba Soirée’, his new collaborative album with Michel Banabila, mechanical instrument maestro Pierre Bastien revels in unusual ways to manipulate the sound of his cornet. His influences are a steady diet of artistic rule-breakers… and tiny circuses
Amor Muere
Meet Mexican “experimental supergroup”
Amps Kill
Big noise to get your neighbours knocking
Leah Kardos
Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra’s Leah Kardos on the first and last albums she bought, and an all-time favourite