Articles by Chris Wodskou

Spectral Visions

Pursuing Ghosts Through Country's Otherworld

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

This is a land of myths and ghosts, this America. God and the devil loom large over the land, and the land looms large over the mind. This...

Bill Laswell

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Scanning Bill Laswell's prodigious discography is like reading a concordance to the last 20 years of funk, free jazz, ambient, dub, spoken...

Jimmy Bosch Wants To Move You

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

His razor-thin sideburns connect him to the rougher edges of Latino youth culture, but Jimmy Bosch is the best kind of throwback. While the...

Small World

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Brazilian music, in the form of samba, bossa nova and tropicalia, has always drawn from and interpreted global sounds. Almost forty years l...

Italian For Beginners

Lone Scherfig

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

The last thing most people would expect from a film produced under the auspices of the Dogme 95 manifesto famously penned by Lars von Trier...

Greyboy

Mastered the Art

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

Once a Stateside acid jazz kingpin, Greyboy now ranks as one of the few who made it through the acid jazz meltdown with his credibility int...

Bill Janovitz

Up Here

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

"This town ain't got the heart you wear on your sleeve," sings Bill Janovitz, on "Long Island," a song about feeling restless within the cl...

Swell

Everybody Wants to Know

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2001

There's always been something a little prickly and snarky about the lyrics and persona of Swell's multi-purpose leader David Freel, but his...