Cartoonist Ray Lowry was found dead at his home on Tuesday. He was 64. Over the years, his crudely drawn, but brilliantly observed cartoons have appeared in all sorts of publications – from Private Eye to Mojo. But the ones that introduced me to his work appeared weekly in the NME in the late seventies [...]
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Kwaidan is a one-off download only project by Mat Ranson, better known as Fisk Industries. There are two tracks, each nearly twelve minutes long, inspired by Masaki Kobayashi’s 1964 portmanteau ghost movie. Both are suitably spooky.
With its dub-drenched melange of mangled voices and two-note spaghetti western guitar line, “Hoichi” (named after the lead character in [...]
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