• Music,  Solo

    So Long, Myspace

    By my reckoning, it has been well over 12 months since I last visited ‘Myspace’, even longer since I posted anything there and longer still since I found anything new or made any sort of connection with other artists. Usually…

  • The Lunacy Board

    Xenochrony

    One of Zappa’s favourite tricks around the “Joe’s Garage” era and beyond was the practice he called “xenochrony” or “strange synchronisation”. This involved him taking a piece of music (often a studio backing track) and overdubbing it with a totally…

  • The Deserters

    Your Place or MySpace?

    Seems the place to be these days is over at MySpace.com. Or so I’m told. Whilst I don’t really want to end up being scattered all over the place when it comes to providing a web presence for the Deserters…