Author Archives: Zac

i haven’t a clue

Best Albums of 2009 0

The indestructable beat of Africa seems to loom larger in a lot of this year’s music and that’s probably why I hear a more prominent influence of the Talking Heads. Together with Brian Eno they were progenitors of a pop songcraft that used african elements while pushing at the boundaries of popular music and new [...]

Palermo 1

Palermo is a hard city to forget – I’ve still got the bedbug bites as reminders – but an even harder city to figure out. It is a tumultuous, urban, energetic mess sprawling like a hardy weed at the foot of jutting rocky cliffs and choppy ocean waters. In the middle of September it was [...]