Generally I think of Thursday as the penultimate day of a given Quarterly Review. This one I was thinking of adding more days to get more stuff in ahead of year-end coverage coming up in December. I don’t know what that would do to my weekend — actually, yes I do — but sometimes it’s […]
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty. Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the […]
I’m glad there’s a new Conny Ochs on the way. I don’t care if it’s in German or English or anything else. If you can get down with Trialogos, there’s probably not much in Ochs‘ folkish solo work that’s going to alienate you. The PR wire informs of that below, and I can’t help but […]
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short or long, and that reveals something in itself, but the most important factor is honesty. Based on the Proust Questionnaire, the […]
German singer-songwriter Conny Ochs is no stranger to a place between genres, and he would seem to be acknowledging that with Doom Folk, which has been unveiled as the title of his upcoming long-player to be released next month on Exile on Mainstream. Ochs, also known for his collaborative work alongside Scott “Wino” Weinrich in the duo Wino & Conny […]
Though of course he’ll be known to readers as the Conny Ochs half of the Wino & Conny Ochs troubadour duo, the German singer-songwriter now has two solo offerings under his belt, each one emotionally resonant to and beyond the point of catharsis. His third outing is titled Future Fables — the cover art is below — and is […]
Seems a fair guess that between Wino and Conny Ochs, it’s the latter who brought the idea of covering Chris Whitley to the table. The relatively underappreciated singer-songwriter, who passed away in 2005 from lung cancer, had a discography of more than a 10 full-lengths to his credit by the time he died at the […]
The duo Wino & Conny Ochs released their second album, Freedom Conspiracy (review here), on Exile on Mainstream at the end of March, and it’s still pretty fresh in mind in terms of the feeling of growth within the collaboration, the uptick in production value and of course the on-point individual performances and more meshed feel of how they work […]
