The World’s Behind You

A VELVET UNDERGROUND COMPANION

MOJO FILTER

YOUR GUIDE TO THE MONTH'S BEST MUSIC

Nothing to fear but fear itself

With producer Daniel Lanois in tow, the Tuaregs venture into the beyond on their ninth album, recorded in LA, Paris and Algeria.

JAZZ

deVon Russell Gray, Nathan Hanson, Davu Seru ★★★★ We

Angelica Rockne

Angelica Rockne: in full bloom. ★★★★ The Rose

ELECTRONICA

BY STEPHEN WORTHY

Soul dressing

Lloyd Cole And The Commotions

Various

Polibio Mayorga: Ecuador’s spaceage music man. ★★★★ Ecuatoriana

The Stan Tracey Quartet

© Analog Africa ★★★★★ Jazz Suite (Inspired By

Joyce Street

★★★ Tied Down NUMERO GROUP. CD/DL/LP The 1970s

The Hidden Cameras

★★★★★ The Smell Of Our Own ROUGH TRADE.

Leon Russell

★★★★ Signature Songs DARK HORSE. CD/DL/LP Leon Russell’s

King Tubby

★★★★ The Roots Of Dub GREENSLEEVES. DL/LP Remastered

Mary Mundy

★★★★ Mother Nature REAL GONE MUSIC. LP 1980

Stills ills!

‘Captain Manyhands’ fights his way out of CSNY and into the spotlight. Casualties multiply.

Marcia Griffiths

Her Royal I-ness: the golden voiced Marcia Griffiths.

Suarasama

★★★★ Timeline DRAG CITY. CD/DL/LP A second volume

Don Cherry

★★★ Hear & Now REAL GONE. LP Avant-garde

Chris & Cosey

★★★★ Muzik Fantastique! CTI. DL/LP The electronic pioneers’

Fred Davis

★★★ Cleveland Blues COLEMINE. CD/DL/LP Rare jazz blues

Grant Lee Buffalo

★★★★ Fuzzy CHRYSALIS. LP A 30th anniversary celebration

Lalo Schifrin

★★★★ Man On A Swing WEWANTSOUNDS. LP Multi-faceted

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Travel agency

Even if you can’t leave the house, you can be transported by music.

World of echo

Joe Gibbs & The Professionals

Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra

★★★★ Space Is The Place: Music From The

Isao Suzuki, Hideo Ichikawa, Masahiko Togashi Akira Shiomoto

★★★★ Approach BBE. CD/DL/LP Latest instalment in the

David Sylvian & Stephan Mathieu

★★★ Wandermüde SAMADHISOUND. CD/DL/LP Ambient remix of Sylvian’s

Various

★★★★ Studio One Space-Age Dub Special SOUL JAZZ.

Technically Ecstasy

Happy go lucky: Pernice Brothers, 1998 (from left)

Neil Young

Somewhere Under The Rainbow ★★★ The Ducks –

A Produce

★★★★ The Clearing INDEPENDENT PROJECT. CD Vital underground

B.E.F.

★★★★ Music For Stowaways COLD SPRING. CD/DL/LP Stylish

COMING NEXT MONTH...

Noel Gallagher (pictured), Squid, Jenny Lewis, Fatoumata Diawara,

REISSUES EXTRA

Desmond Dekker ★★★★ The Essential Collection TROJAN. CD/DL/LP

RATINGS & FORMATS

Your guide to the month’s best music is

Wayne Shorter

A jazz superhero in 10 albums. Rest in power. By Andrew Male.

Queen of The South

Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You

Twist: An American Girl

★★★★ Adele Bertei ZE BOOKS. £19.99 A pulsing,

The Art Of The Straight Line: My Tai Chi

★★★★ Lou Reed FABER. £30 Compelling, surprising portrait

Same Old Girl: Staying Alive, Staying Sane, Staying Myself

★★★★ Sylvia Patterson FLEET. £20 Music writer’s second

To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, And Mystery Of Connie Converse

Howard Fishman ★★★ WILDFIRE/DUTTON. £25 The ur-singer-songwriter (arguably)

It’s The Truth: Making The Only Ones

★★★ Simon Wright SHAKSPEARE EDITORIAL. £12.99 Extraordinary backstory

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

★★★★ Claire Dederer SCEPTRE. £20 What to do

Ready, set, go man go

Little Richard: I Am Everything

ALL BACK TO MY PL ACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING...

Theories, rants, etc.

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I Must Be Travelling On Now

Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s final keeper of the flame, left us on March 5.

MAY 1984 ...Cocteau Twins hit the charts

Pearly king and queen: (clockwise from above) Cocteau

Who named themselves after real people?

Come with us as we answer those nagging questions and solve the conundrums of rock obscuria.

Darling Earbuds

Win! Final audio ZE8000 wireless earphones.

Dele Sosimi and Egypt 80

It began with Fela Kuti in Lagos. It ended when his apprentices followed his example.

Picture This

THE HOT NEWS AND BIZARRE STORIES FROM PLANET MOJO 

QUACK! IT’S NEIL YOUNG’S ’77 SANTA CRUZ BAR BAND THE DUCKS. BUT HOW?

High flyers: The Ducks (from left) Johnny Craviotto,

DEXYS RETURN WITH THE FEMININE DIVINE

Divine inspiration: Dexys’ (clockwise from above right) Kevin

ANDREW LAUDER

The legendary A&R man talks about the psych/pub rock/punk ’70s, The Stone Roses, and missing the Fabs’ last gig.

David Thomas

Pere Ubu’s trenchant mastermind considers the majesty of Van Dyke Parks’ Song Cycle (Warner Bros, 1967)

MEMPHIS AND NEW ORLEANS SOUL-FUNK ROYALTY, IN EAST ANGLIA?

IN EARLY JUNE, British festival-goers will have a

’60s FACE AND IMPROV EMINENCE JULIE TIPPETTS FORGES ON

Keeper of the flame: Julie in 1968 and

Lukas Nelson & Potr

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MEET THE TUBS, BUZZSAW FOLK ROCKERS WITH A FINE LINE IN DIRTY LAUNDRY

Full disclosure: The Tubs (with Owen Williams, second

FETED BY BOB DYLAN AND BILL CALLAHAN, SARABETH TUCEK RETURNS AT LAST – AS SBT!

Trunk rock: Sarabeth Tucek, AKA SBT, delivers remarkable

MOJO PLAYLIST

The month’s best organic funk, garage pop and molten bossa.

The Clash’s bass smasher and style icon on reggae roots, punk violence, jail in Greenland and his quirky new album. But why do we never see him at award ceremonies? “I don’t want a pat on the back,” insists Paul Simonon.

Portrait by TOM OLDHAM ON ASUNNY FEBRUARY AFTERNOON,

SOLDIER of the HEART

Junkie, jailbird, genius: tragic JUDEE SILL loved hard, lived fast and wrote songs like no one else. As a film about her life looks set to hip a whole new audience, friends and lovers help MOJO tell her story. “She liked the edge,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN. “She just went over.”

THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS’ TIME HAS COME TODAY

Family harmonisers from the Deep South, they sang for Superman, played with Lightnin’ Hopkins and met electric Dylan at Newport. Mixing the blues, folk and rock’n’roll, the racially mixed group duly achieved nirvana with 1968’s Number 11 US hit Time Has Come Today, an 11-minute acid-soul call-to-arms which declared “my soul has been psychedelicised.” Then, the hippy dream faded and the Mob moved in. “We were putting everything into it,” the band and their intimates tell MOJO. “We knew it would be remembered for ever.”

MOMENTS OF TRUTH

JASON ISBELL'S new album combines fears for America with lessons learned from sobriety and Scorsese. Its songs about abortion and activism, bad love and loneliness, have driven him to painful places - but, as he tells GRAYSON HAVER CƯRRIN, that’s where the real stories are: “What’s the point of all this if you’re not terrified?”

the world turned upside down

In 1963, The Beatles a force that remade pop, and Britain, in an instant. Sixty years on, their subversive spirit shines through the maelstrom of incandescent fans, outraged MPs and hyperbolic media. And their records weren’t bad, either. John Harris flips his (Beatle) wig all over again

no sad tomorrow

10 beatles recording that cut through the screams of 1963. by john Harris

"we all felt it was their swan song"

On August 3,1963,the beatles played their last ever show at The Cavern. It was a bittersweet watershed, reports danny eccleston

Cheer up, Brian Christinzio – it’s already happened, and, as BC CAMPLIGHT, you’ve likely written a song about it. Death, drugs, disease, demons, deportation, dashed romance, and, for this man of the eastern US, unlikely sanctuary in the north of England: “My story is pretty warty,” he warns MARTIN ASTON.

"HOW WARTY DOES MOJO LIKE TO GO?” ASKS

BETWEEN THE GUTTER AND THE STARS

A 20-PAGE CELEBRATION

“THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY THEM!”

LOU REED KNEW THAT BERLIN ’S CINEMATIC PORTRAIT OF FUCKED-UP LOVERS MIRED IN DRUGS AND VIOLENCE WOULD CHALLENGE FANS OF HIS CAREERMAKING TRANSFORMER. FIFTY YEARS ON, IT’S TIME TO COUNT ITS TRUE COST, AND MEASURE ITS TRUE GENIUS. “IT WAS A ROCK TRAGEDY,” LEARNS DAVID FRICKE. “BUT IN THE EARLY ’70S, NOBODY GAVE A SHIT ABOUT A ROCK TRAGEDY.”

“I SAID, EXCUSE ME. ARE YOU LOU REED?”

JONATHAN RICH MAN REMEMBERS HIS APPRENTICESHIP WITH LOU REED AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: “MY PARENTS, BLESS THEIR HEARTS, LET ME GO SEE THESE WEIRDOS.”