Instagram Story Viewer

On my album called "Good Morning Mrs. Sunshine" I allowed myself to do any kind of damn music that came into my mind. This song is called super crisp dream, and maybe you'll find it on the streaming services under-- Gordon Raphael !!

Here's to Quisp cereal, Jimi Hendrix , Albert Einstein, Mr. Natural and my home-guys, "the fabulous furry freak brothers"

when it comes to the rhythm andthe soul, so we can give 'em peace like the people never known.

all around we could be creating that new super dream, open up the gates,then we change the scene.....

LA PISCINE 💧🟡 dans une semaine 🔺💦 12:00 AM

Le nouveau single - LA PISCINE - produit par notre ami @gordonraphael 🌹 Enregistré en Picardie avec @etiwaaa @lalonde_victor & @anotherfourstringsguy et masterisé par @domjrichmond sera disponible en intégralité le 26/05 🌠

Collage Artwork @etiwaaa

#newsingle #lapiscine #band #rockfrançais #chansonfrancaise

I remember when I was 23. I was furiously working away on my music, but still living home at my mom's house after a brief fling of success in Seattle!

this is me in the childhood bedroom that I grew up, in Robinswood. @kelly.gordon.xwas prolifically taking pictures of our friend group at the time and so I'm lucky to have this document indeed!

this was a crazy transition time because all the gorgeous progressive rock music that was on my turntable day and a day out, with suddenly becoming very out of fashion… With punk rock and new wave taking over everyone and everything very quickly!

The person in that picture, me – – was writing songs on piano and acoustic guitar that we're going to be the mental mannequin stuff within a year.

two songs that I wrote that year I actually never got around to recording and those are "work now" and "military man".

One song called "guidelines for a holy life" got recorded on a borrowed 4-Track, but didn't survive the fire in our recording studio/church eight years later.....

The song in the background is magnificent piece by @junkyardtornado

I invited Sarah “Sassy” Maguire to my studio in Limehouse, London to create a cover of David Bowie’s amazing QUEEN BITCH song.

She was very brave, as we’d never worked together before and it was my idea to make a version of this song with her singing.

There were tears, there was laughter, but in the end this came out super cool… a Bowie underground song with me playing guitar
and Roland TR-808 drum machine.

Its up on da streaming services: Queen Bitch on the Gordon Raphael artist page.
YUP… Go TEAM!

#SilverTransporterraumofLondon@s.c.maguire@davidbowienews

in 2006 I returned to living in Berlin after a one year try in London (part 2 of me livin’ in London)

Me and Sassy lived in a huge house
on Schlesisches Tor, and in my music room I got busy creating my album “Space Rocker”.

I wished to revisit some of my first themes and intentions that got me started as a
musician and composer.This was a fantastic re-connection

I was also experimenting a lot with Arturia synthesizer emulations and cool Mellotron plug-ins, surprised at how good they had gotten the characteristics and mood — fer sure.

“INTRO” was new material based on the joy of just cutting loose and
experimenting on SOUNDS.The video was made during a trip toBear Creek Studio in Seattle, joyously running around in a field there with a dog happily chasing me, holding a lime green frisbee.

First Scratchings Of Light is a longer form video I made on my Gordotronic Youtube channel. Filmed in Berlin, New York, London and Liverpool.

Various Trips.

From The Desk of Mental Mannequin:

One of the segments from my recent "Attention Seeker" series. This one discusses books, and early signs of extreme showing off… At the elementary school level.

The series was a lot of fun, and a joy to make. So I'll be showing several more installations soon! Kon Tikiall the way

This version of my song, “I SAID” was produced by the epic Moses Schneider at Transporterraum Berlin. Sarah Maguire did an amazing job of singing it,

Nackt played guitar leads,
I played rude guitar noise and Arp Synth (also chanted the background vocals),
Producer Moses played the bassline, and our friend Tom Marsh played perfect drums.

My first version was with 505 drum machine and recorded by myself on a 4-track reel to reel. Second version was Colour Twigs, song 1, done with Synclavier and 24 track 2 inch tape at Triangle Studio in Ballard (Seattle).

3rd version was this one with Sassy Maguire
singing —I love all the versions. YES!

@mosesschneiderofficial @sassy_von__plastik @tommarsh@pcnackt 🔱✈️👋🫶

Before I met The Strokes, and before my great years with Sky Cries Mary-- I had two killer bands in Seattle called Colour Twigs and.... Mental Mannequin. Both of my albums with these bands can be found on streaming services under the Gordon Raphael musician platform!

You can order my book quite easily on Amazon, or if you want to get a signed copy sent from me from England, go to Wordville Press website and order the book, and be sure to put in the comments that you want me to sign it. Easy as that really!! ✈️⭐️❤️👋##

pS: the lovely song playing in the background is my tune called "Savage Flower". This song was written in Seattle, but I recorded it in London and Berlin

it's from my album "Floodlight Of The Moon" available everywhere online

You can order my book quite easily on Amazon, or if you want to get a signed copy sent from me from England, go to Wordville Press website and order the book, and be sure to put in the comments that you want me to sign it. Easy as that really!! ✈️⭐️❤️👋##

pS: the lovely song playing in the background is my tune called "Savage Flower". This song was written in Seattle, but I recorded it in London and Berlin

it's from my album "Floodlight Of The Moon" available everywhere online

You can order my book quite easily on Amazon, or if you want to get a signed copy sent from me from England, go to Wordville Press website and order the book, and be sure to put in the comments that you want me to sign it. Easy as that really!! ✈️⭐️❤️👋##

pS: the lovely song playing in the background is my tune called "Savage Flower". This song was written in Seattle, but I recorded it in London and Berlin

it's from my album "Floodlight Of The Moon" available everywhere online

You can order my book quite easily on Amazon, or if you want to get a signed copy sent from me from England, go to Wordville Press website and order the book, and be sure to put in the comments that you want me to sign it. Easy as that really!! ✈️⭐️❤️👋##

pS: the lovely song playing in the background is my tune called "Savage Flower". This song was written in Seattle, but I recorded it in London and Berlin

it's from my album "Floodlight Of The Moon" available everywhere online

You can order my book quite easily on Amazon, or if you want to get a signed copy sent from me from England, go to Wordville Press website and order the book, and be sure to put in the comments that you want me to sign it. Easy as that really!! ✈️⭐️❤️👋##

pS: the lovely song playing in the background is my tune called "Savage Flower". This song was written in Seattle, but I recorded it in London and Berlin

it's from my album "Floodlight Of The Moon" available everywhere online

RED MARTIAN brought me to ElectroKitty studio in Seattle to record their heavy influenced music stuff. Their leader, Stephen Jones is a genius on guitar AND synthesizers ... he also perfectly repairs all analog synthesizers, woah!!!
ANYWAY, I think people should know about some of the things I produce and work on, and how I exist

check out Ghost Into The Fog by Red Martian on all streaming things

@redmartianofficial and @peaveyelectronics

Calling anyone who ever wanted to make a scene. This event brings together Southampton’s most exciting young bands and Gordon Raphael, the producer of Is This It and other records that have shaped the sound of indie rock for the last 25 years. The night will culminate in a live discussion that draws on Gordon’s experience of the birth of grunge in 1990s Seattle and New York City’s 2000s indie sleaze movement. It will also feature electric live performances from self-styled ‘vampire oil refinery autotune rock’ artist Wall Street, and poetic post-punk legends Frontwoman. We aim to inspire local musicians and fans alike to launch themselves into this budding scene. Tickets live on the Heartbreakers website.
#livemusic #indierock #wallstreet #grungecity #isthisit

My deeply personal current opinion from my heart about the topic of AI producing music oh yeah! Thank you 100×2 @sondermdia and genuine human being @jademread who kindly had me on his show last week!

everybody have a great weekend, do your best!!