d’ville
[2022] A collection of song-stories from a small town where dark secrets appear in half-remembered dreams…
dark
CRPT × TRNAH: march 13
The smell of burnt plastic and kerosene, the sight of boarded up houses, factories, and stores, the sound of a distant gunshot…
Gryflet: Mobocracy Mayhem
In late June 2016, we all woke up to the reality of the Brexit referendum. There was a blanketing, quiet awe of both disbelief and gnawing…
Gryflet’s Endless Tempest
Nuno Tavares, the mastermind behind Gryflet is not a man of many words… but his music and song titles say it all. They are narrative riffs…
Gryflet’s Left to the Unknown
We all have voices in our head. In the early 1930’s the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined the distinction between silent…
Gryflet’s #MeToo
The #MeToo movement has been short of revolutionary, even becoming Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year.’ Its ripple effect has…
Shared Hallucinations: Gryflet’s ‘Your Head on the Pillow’
Way before there was such a thing as ‘virtual reality,’ there was music… Its mythologies connected ordinary peoples with the extraordinary…
Gryflet and the Mile High Club
Many people have fantasies about getting it on in an airplane bathroom. I’m not sure why: they’re small, brightly lit, and sometimes…
X-ray of the Past and Future
In the wake of another recently broken bone (this time my foot!) I’ve been thinking again about pain and its role in our lives. It’s indeed an…
dethkaster
I customize all my instruments in one way or another, hopefully in artful and subtle ways, but there are always those extreme cases…
c’ville box
In 1990 I took my first photography course under a die-hard disciple of the Bauhaus (not the band, but the art school in germany ;-) On the…
wept
Before I move on to the 2000’s I have to mention the goth-rock-avante-jazz band that I helped found in 1986 and played in until 1993…