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Baker's Dozen

An Ocean of Atoms: Lord Spikeheart’s Baker’s Dozen
Alex Rigotti , April 3rd, 2024 07:42

The experimental metal master guides Alex Rigotti through his thirteen favourite albums that explore heaviness, spirituality and love, and that shaped both him and his debut solo album The Adept

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I love Indian music. I’ve listened to Indian music to go to sleep since I was a kid. I like listening to old school Indian music, like really old recordings – the ones that have a lot of instrumentation, tribal and ethnic instruments, the vocals are so soothing to me and so beautiful. I really love the rhythms and the waves they make and how they make you feel. It's like living in some fantasy, like Aladdin or Arabian Nights. So that's how I got into Indian music. Also, when I was a kid, my dad used to take me to Bollywood movies. They were the only ones airing at this theatre back home, so we’d go there on Sundays.

[Kenya’s Indian diaspora] has been there for a long time, they’re the same as us. There’s no difference at all. We grew up together, we live together, go to school together, they’re neighbours. It’s a part of our culture. If you look at metal, metalheads are very tight people. They’re loving, kind people to each other. It doesn’t matter what country or race you’re from; there’s not these boundaries that other genres come with. Metal’s a really open-minded and free community because it’s not a normal type of music. You’re like, ‘Yo – you’re like me!’ I see that a lot in Kenya: we are so mixed up, at some point you don’t even know what’s going on. Everybody is everybody and everybody’s here, so it’s cool.