interview Archive
16 Sep 2026
Phil Manzanera: Roxy, Rock en en Español y Mucho Más (Part 1 of 3)
Portions of this interview were published previously on The Tonearm. While he’s best known as the innovative guitarist with Roxy Music, Phil Manzanera’s musical endeavors have long extended far beyond […]
14 Sep 2026
A Clusterchat with Wolfgang Seidel
An edited version of this interview first appeared in The Tonearm. In the narrow but influential slice of the music universe that is krautrock/kosmische music, Cluster looms large. Founded as […]
28 Aug 2026
Faust: Proudly Outside (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Werner “Zappi” Diermaier readily admits to his Zappa fandom. “Around 1968, I came to the Grünspan club with a Frank Zappa album under my arm,” he […]
27 Aug 2026
Faust: Proudly Outside (Part 1 of 2)
One of the most outré and boundary-pushing musical acts of the 1970s, West German band Faust exerted influence that far outstripped its own popularity. Between 1971 and 1975 the band […]
26 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: What kind of synthesizer gear did you use on Flower of Life? Steve Hillage: Well, there’s quite a bit of our antique EMS. And […]
25 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: From my perspective, your guitar work seems to be more integrated into what System 7 does on Flower of Life than it perhaps was […]
24 Aug 2026
System 7’s Second Summer of Love (Part 1 of 3)
A shorter edit of this feature was first published on The Tonearm. Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy embarked on their fascinating musical journey several decades ago. They began working together […]
17 Aug 2026
A Chat with Roedelius
An edited version of this feature was first published in The Tonearm. Hans-Joachim Roedelius is a towering figure in music. A founding member of groundbreaking bands Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia, Berlin-born […]
13 Aug 2026
Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… What other synthesizers did you use on these tracks? The main one is the one that we’ve always used in Beak> as well, which was one […]
12 Aug 2026
Billy Fuller’s Kosmische ‘Fragments’ (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Something you just said made me think about this. When I talk to artists, it often comes up that they consider sequencing to be nearly as […]