MAINE’s ‘IV’ Gets Gorgeous Vinyl Reissue With Midnight Mannequin Records

My first experience with MAINE, the all-analog electronic music project of France’s Michel Dupay, was with 2017s V. There was something haunting, enchanting, and all-encompassing about the songs on that record. Dupay records with all analog synths, real drums, and real strings and without the use of MIDI, so the songs sound and feel organic […]

Jason Priest : For Your Consideration

Jason Priest, the Brit Rock alter ego of electronic musician/composer Antoni Maiovvi, has returned for yet another chance at music redemption in the form of For Your Consideration. Jason Priest Is Missing was Priest’s comeback album after spending the 80s lost in pills, booze, and self doubt. Newly sober, Priest made good on the promise […]

Jason Priest : Jason Priest Is Missing

You know the saying, “role of a lifetime”? Well I feel that musician/film composer Antoni Maiovvi has found that role in the worn-out, leather boots of post-punk/new wave survivor Jason Priest. Priest is the nom de plume which Maiovvi has taken for his latest musical project, which is an all-out jagged pop album with edges […]

Jason Priest Returns With Debut Full-Length ‘Jason Priest Is Missing’; Listen To “When The Clown Cries”

Jason Priest is the synth pop/post punk nom de plume of prolific composer/musician Antoni Maiovvi. While Maiovvi works in the shadowy world of underground disco and Giallo(he is a co-founder of Giallo Disco Records), Priest lays waste in the world of early 80s synth pop and post-punk. Sort of a pill and alcohol-fueled musical one […]