Stefan
Kassel remembers the very first time pop music had an effect on him that was
physical as much as emotional.
“My mother had a copy of Dione Warwick’s album, I Know I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” says the co-founder of the Hamburg-based Marina Records of Warwick’s 1970 collection. “I heard it as a kid and got goosebumps. That never went away.”
Given that the record Warwick’s spine-tingling interpretations of songs by the likes of Jimmy Webb and composer of its title track, Burt Bacharach, Kassel’s response sealed his love of classic pop song-writing forever after. It was the same when a decade or so later he first heard the bands whose records were being released on Alan Horne’s Glasgow-based Postcard record label.
“My gateway into Scottish music was listening to John Peel on British Forces Radio,” says Kassel. “The first time he played Blueboy by Orange Juice and Pillar to Post by Aztec Camera, that was goosebumps too.”
This is presumably one of the reasons why Kassel and Marina’s …
“My mother had a copy of Dione Warwick’s album, I Know I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” says the co-founder of the Hamburg-based Marina Records of Warwick’s 1970 collection. “I heard it as a kid and got goosebumps. That never went away.”
Given that the record Warwick’s spine-tingling interpretations of songs by the likes of Jimmy Webb and composer of its title track, Burt Bacharach, Kassel’s response sealed his love of classic pop song-writing forever after. It was the same when a decade or so later he first heard the bands whose records were being released on Alan Horne’s Glasgow-based Postcard record label.
“My gateway into Scottish music was listening to John Peel on British Forces Radio,” says Kassel. “The first time he played Blueboy by Orange Juice and Pillar to Post by Aztec Camera, that was goosebumps too.”
This is presumably one of the reasons why Kassel and Marina’s …