July 23, 2010 at 10:14 pm
‘Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
~Joaquin Miller, Ina
- Cerati / Melero -Cozumel
Colores Santos (1992)
- Dj Krush-Big City Lover
Krush (Shadow Records, 1994)
- Thom Yorke-Black Swan
The Eraser (XL, 2006)
- Modeselektor-Edgar
Happy Birthday! (BPitch Control, 2007)
- Motor City Drum Ensemble-Raw Cuts # 6
Raw Cuts Vol.1 (Timothy Really, 2009)
- Fudge Fingas-It’s about time
Prime Numbers 3 (Prime Numbers, 2010
- Outkast-Prototype
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (La Face, 2003)
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
This Midnight Tempo is a jump to beats more rythmical but no in another tune, all is arund the midnight.
It’s bed time with the right mood.
July 18, 2010 at 9:46 pm
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson
This is the first of the “Midnight tempo” series. You can find some rhytmical pop sound to surfing or traveling across the midnight.
See you in the next time. While enjoy it.
Photo: Twentyeight
July 7, 2010 at 1:09 am
Photo: Nickolas Muray via GEH.
Allez donc vous faire bronzer
Sur la plage, sur la plage.
An all-weekend getaway to the beach. A subtle and clumsy dance on the pool. I love this Nickolas Muray photograph. I had no idea they had such bright, colourful photographs in 1932. I’d love to lie and tell you I created this playlist inspired by it. Maybe I will.
I created this playlist inspired by today’s photograph. Manouche jazz, soul funk, rare groove… it’s a nice, vibrant soundset for warm summer days. It might just scare the rain away.
June 30, 2010 at 7:36 pm
The trees were draped with an astonishing assortment of household goods: jackets, tires, chairs, bicycles. It became something of a contest to see who could find the most amazing item in the branches. Except for an occasional Humvee full of National Guard members and some Spanishspeaking workers, we were the only people in the area. It was eerily still. (A New Orleans Times-Democrat account of the Mississippi flood of 1882 described this sort of post-diluvian silence as “the quiet of dissolution.”) Near the town of Empire, two fishing boats, the Sea Falcon and the Sea Wolf, both a hundred and fifty feet long, had landed across all four lanes of Highway 23. - Watermark
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” Cowpunk vs. Mother earth. 2010. ”
01. Eli et Papillon - Une chanson pour tout dire
(Demo 2010)
02. Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
Harvest (1990)
03. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Before You Accuse Me
Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
04. Holly Golightly - Mother Earth
Slowly but Surely (Damaged Goods, 2004)
05. The Black Keys - Do the Rump
The Big Come Up (Alive Records, 2002)
06. Reverend Horton Heat - Marijuana
Holy Roller (Sub Pop, 1999)
07. Jimi Hendrix - Crying Blue Rain
Valleys Of Neptune (2010)
08. The Coral - Dreaming of you
The Coral (2003)
note: It’s burning summer blues, cowpunk. Something slow, but not mellow. Blues but not sad. Slow burn, perfect to listen while fighting 4 pounds of crawfish and a big cup of sweetened tea. Maybe yelling at TV for all the wrong things that goes on in the world. The war, the oil spill, the recession, neighbor’s dog and the clunking fridge.
see also: Cow punk
image: mickiky
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June 24, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Photo: moS.nap
It wasn’t until we were well past the middle of it that we realized the old dull pain, whose stitched wrists and clammy fingers, far from being subverted, had only slipped underneath us, freshly scrubbed.
Mirrors and shop windows returned our faces to us, replete with the tight lips and the eyes that remained eyes and not the doorways we had hoped for.
His wounds healed, the skin a bit thicker than before, scars like train tracks on his arms and on his body underneath his shirt.
Richard Siken, Little Beast.
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June 20, 2010 at 6:24 pm
From far away. Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown
- The strangler.
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” Summer 2010. It’s not a good year, but we stick together. ”
01. Alternative TV - Nasty Little Lonely
The Image Has Cracked (Anagram Punk UK, 1978)
02. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Switch
The Scream (1978)
03. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
04. Wire - Fragile
Pink Flag (Restless Records, 1977)
05. The Adverts - Newboys
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts (Fire UK, 2002)
06. The Damned - New Rose
Damned Damned Damned (Stiff, 1977)
07. The Stranglers - European Female
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
08. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Crazy Rhythms (Bar None, 2009)
09. The Jam - Smithers-Jones
The Sound Of The Jam (2002)
Ah, sorry guys, been a little slow. I am trying to keep up. How about something to play for hot summer afternoon? I collected few early punk and new wave. That distinct British sound from late 70’s. I like them when it click, specially the melody and lyrics. “Every time just like the last // On her ship tied to the mast // To distant lands // Takes both my hands // Never a frown with golden brown” It can sing in my head over and over again softly like a lullaby. (Or maybe it’s the heat stroke.) Who says punk is all harsh. The root is all folks, songs, and blues, the things that children will sing for ages to come to fend off bad time.
Anyway, explore the web, entertain yourself while I am sorting up stuff. This can take a while, Moka will hold down the fort, so be nice to her.
see also: new wave, punk
image: Punk ‘n’ Love by ~tingfinder
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