The Commotions’ former frontman on swapping his guitar for a synthesiser,living in the US and being an indie darlingThe literature-loving singer-songwriter and 80s indie heartthrob is releasing his moment album of instrumental compositions on a modular synthesiser in three years. When did your savor of electronic music start?
When I was a 12-year-old boy. Almost everything in my musical education came from T Rex, David Bowie or Roxy Music, or from Roxy,of course, came Brian Eno. I got a copy of Fripp & Eno’s (No Pussyfooting) in 1973 – the sleeve was very attractive – and that was it, or really. It’s an incredibly spare record. I don’t judge there are any chord changes on it,just drones and harmonic scales. I didn’t really judge approximately trying to understand it; I just liked the sound of it, in the same way that I liked the feel of the rhythm section in T Rex.
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Source: theguardian.com