David Lynch, Chris Cunningham, Luis Bunuel, Joel Peter Witkin, the train set I had when I was a kid, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend / The Who, Orson Welles, Robert Fripp, Stanley Kubrick, Dead Can Dance, Bill Hicks, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Lynne / ELO, Meshuggah, Bret Easton Ellis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Wilson / Beach Boys, sprawling double vinyl LPs in gatefold sleeves, Japanese bondage, Joy Division, XTC, Nick Drake, Can, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Abba, Mikael Akerfeldt / Opeth, The Necks, Red House Painters, Massive Attack, The Smiths, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Arvo Part, Lindsay Anderson's "If" and "Oh Lucky Man", The Cure, Carpenters, Underworld, Hawkwind, almost all 70's progressive rock (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, VDGG, Yes, Camel, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Ange, SBB, Rush, Magma, Hatfield and the North / Egg, Gong, Focus, Henry Cow, Area, PFM...etc), but virtually no progressive rock after that. The same applies for Krautrock (Faust, Embryo, Cluster, Popul Vuh..etc). A lot of electronica, especially the holy Warp trinity of Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Squarepusher, but also Monolake, Plaid, Bola, Scorn, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares, Photek, Jan Jelinek, Brothomstates, Arovane, Panacea, Gas, 2nd Gen, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay, and Murcof. The so called minimal techno of Plastikman, Surgeon, and Ricardo Villalobos. A lot of industrial music from the late 70's / early 80's especially Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, MB, Whitehouse, SPK, Zoviet France, Nurse With Wound, Esplendor Geometrico, Muslimgauze. A whole lot of experimental / drone-based music, especially Richard Chartier, Thomas Koner, The Hafler Trio, Uton, Asmus Tietchens, VidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, William Basinski, Organum, and Mirror. Eno, The Waterboys, Prince (80's vintage), Neil Young, SLAB!, Swans, Black Sabbath, Lasse Hoile, Public Image Ltd (especially Metal Box), Neurosis, The Fall, Linda Perhacs, Free, Bjork "Vespertine", Magazine, T-Rex, Wolf Eyes, Khanate, The Police, Wolfgang Press, Fritz Lang, Chris Morris, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Cardiacs, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Isis, The Durutti Column, Oval, Franz Kafka, Donovan, DJ Shadow, OMD, Gary Numan, A Certain Ratio, The Doors, Soft Machine, Steely Dan, Circle, Momus, Mew, Roy Harper, John Martyn, Magna Carta, Trans Am, Terry Riley "A Rainbow in Curved Air", The Moody Blues, Will Oldham, Alan J Pakula, Aphrodite's Child "666", Vangelis "Earth" and "Beauborg", Santana, Todd Rundgren, Smog, Scott Walker, Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica", Family, Deep Purple, Mansun "Six", Portishead, Jim O'Rourke, Paul Schutze, Steve Reich, Vivian Stanshall, George Harrison "All Things Must Pass", Slayer "Reign in Blood", Metallica "Master of Puppets", Talking Heads, Godley / Creme "Consequences", Air, Oceansize, Fovea Hex, Donna Summer, Ivor Cutler, Wendy Carlos "Sonic Seasonings", Third Eye Foundation, Tarkovsky, Alice Coltrane, James Joyce, Jimi Hendrix, Esoteric, Sunn O))), The Byrds, CSN, Cardiacs, Wire, Bruce Cockburn (70's vintage), Meat Beat Manifesto, Faure "Requiem", Alanis raging against her ex-boyfriend (and "Thank You" of course), Fleetwood Mac, Astral Social Club, Tim Hardin, my hatred of iPods, Earth, Frank Sinatra, Kate Bush, Orbital, Dom "Edge of Time", Morton Feldman, Keith Jarrett, Jean Cocteau, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, "The Wicker Man" (not the abysmal Hollywood remake), Chic / Sister Sledge, Alain Resnais "Night and Fog", Philip Glass, Love, Sly and the Family Stone, Cocteau Twins, The Mars Volta, Terje Rypdal, Marvin Gaye, Gojira, Faith No More, Katatonia, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, DAF, Univers Zero, Rod Stewart / The Faces, Morbid Angel, The Stranglers, Asian Horror Movies (especially Shutter, and Ju-On), Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead", Shit N Shine, Jeff Wayne "War of the Worlds", Mastodon, Serge Gainsbourg "Historie De Melodie Nelson", "The Company of Wolves" (Neil Jordan movie), Sun Ra, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prefab Sprout, Oren Ambarchi, Lard Free, Queen, The Blue Nile "Hats", Joni Mitchell, Set Fire to Flames, Tom Newman "Faerie Symphony", Man, Chemical Brothers, Corrupted, LCD Soundsystem, Harmony Korine "Gummo", Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Burzum, Pharoah Sanders, Killing Joke, Birchville Cat Motel, Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain", Boris, The Bee Gees, Merzbow, Stars of the Lid, The Bonzo Dog Band, Heldon.
And everything else.
Sounds Like
Words are trains, for moving past what really has no name
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Hey man, we´ll be really crying by emotions if you heard our new songs and left a comment telling what you think. We are still waiting your call to produce our new record. Have you lost our number maybe? "NIL Recurring" is... amazing. Keep it Obsolete in the Trees!!! P.
See, I was watching at youtube your interview in Australia last May and... well, Australia is definitely not the last frontiers for PT: you'd be amazed how people expect you guys here in Brasil, specially Sao Paulo (I'm from Porto Alegre... but we don't expect that much! it's kind of a small city, out of the circuits, though huge bands like Rush have recently played here;). Seriously, we even have listened to some of your songs on television shows, like tv magazines and also journalism... Óõ
So... next time you plan a tour... keep it in mind! Kisses!
Thank you very much, not only for the add, but above all for you music, which is always made with "class, wit & soul" & thanks because you're a source of ispiration for a musician like me.
Greetings from Italy!
Andrea/Captain Binki
P.S.: I'm looking forward for your next performance in Rome
Thank you, Thank you for giving me the song Thank You!!! This song is amazing. I heard it on Lonn Friend's page. Sending you good, good, good vibrations.
Thanks for the add. Love 'Schoolyard Ghosts' . Hope to see you in New Zealand with Porcupine Tree, Blackfield or No-man in the near future. Best Wishes Fran
hi steven, love the version of Stars Die on here... i was at the Orlando show in October but missed the next day's instore appearance as i had a long drive back to South Florida. still, at least i get to hear it now. hope all is good. cheers, eric
