"When I was at college, I learned all his tunes on the piano. His music has all those extensions, but it also has this amazing groove and it’s very melodic. Hearing him play by himself is beautiful."
#SebRochford on #TheloniousMonk - Thelonious Alone In San Francisco
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Cecil Taylor - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 album cover. Close up of the artist's face on the left hand side of the image, with titles at the level of his eyes angling upwards.
"It completely blew my mind. It’s a whole other way of playing and writing music. It’s so melodic and has amazing rhythm to it, but it’s such a brave way of not doing what people have done before."
#SebRochford on Cecil Taylor - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
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Prince - Purple Rain album cover. A scene from the movie of the same name. The artist, wearing purple, sat on a motorcycle, also purple.
"I probably know the lyrics to every single song, and it’s an album I can’t help but sing along to – there’s very few albums that do that to me. I just think he was a genius – he created at least 10 classic albums."
#SebRochford on #Prince - Purple Rain
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Slayer - South Of Heaven album cover. Illustration with a skull at the centre.
"I think Dave Lombardo is an absolute genius – his drumming has been very influential on me. Coming from a Cuban background, he’s coming from a completely different place in that music, so all his fills and beats are so unique"
#SebRochford on #Slayer - South Of Heaven
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Teenage Jesus And The Jerks' eponymous album cover. Lydia Lunch with black hair, eye make-up and lipstick, against a vivid pink background.
"I discovered it in the last 10 years, probably. I was into Sonic Youth’s Confusion Is Sex, which I still love, but then I heard this and joined some dots. It’s just got so much attitude."
#SebRochford on Teenage Jesus And The Jerks
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Godflesh - Godflesh album cover. Black and white close up of a face.
"He’s such an important person for me, Justin Broadrick. I used to learn all the beats on this EP when I was playing drums – they’re on a drum machine but I learned so much from them"
#SebRochford on #Godflesh - Godflesh
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#SebRochford and #FindingWays' 'Maybe' to start Sunday. From the new album
sebastianrochford.bandcamp.com/track/maybe
🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
Aldous Harding & John Parish & H.Hawkline & Seb Rochford:
🎵 Passion babe
#AldousHarding #JohnParish #HHawkline #SebRochford
All songs played on #fip as a #Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3esxovxKyF5QcUG...
