Archive for May, 2006

para despedirse

dibujito por mou

he andado un poco ausente.
me he estado despidiendo de unos cuantos.
mini soundtrack para un mundo donde todo duele.

rachel’s - last thing last
lali puna - grin and bear
azure ray - november
brian eno - by the river
telepopmusik - love can damage your health

la rola extra,
mucho más rockera pero no menos nostálgica
a.f.i. - days of the phoenix

y una recomendación. escuchen a jög. él también hace musiquita triste y la tiene disponible en su myspace.

[post #300!]

Posted by issa in Motel de Moka
 

Elegant No.23a

That Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem,
An outward show of things, that only seem;
But that fair lamp, from whose celestial ray
That light proceeds which kindleth lover’s fire,
Shall never be extinguished nor decay;
But, when the vital spirits do expire,
Unto her native planet shall retire,
For it is heavenly born and cannot die,
Being a parcel of the purest sky.
Edmund Spenser

One idea I tried to explore early at MdM was the idea of ‘elegant’. It was in tandem with some of Moka’s earlier series. (elevator/downtempo and kinky) But after A. E. no 2b post, I quickly moved somewhere else. Here is another try

No. 23a explores two ideas. One is musical, the idea of elegant in musical expression. The playlist backbone is soulfull voices interspersed with songs that swerve between pop, jazz and blues. Feminine elegant, the relation between great voices, context of times and music styles. Pulse of history. These songs are exquisite, with carefull dynamic control, melody, ever changing rythm and texture. Above all it’s craftmanship, great techniques done seemingly effortless. Everything necessary without being excessive, each moment is pure. It is an economical equilibrium between form and function. Second idea, is simply trying to find all combination of post forms, anything that cannot easily fit within traditional print or radio, be it subject or type of music. So here is Elegant No.23a.

01. Etta James - At Last
02. Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd - Density Of The 19th Century
03. Sun Ra - Angels And Demons At Play
04. Medeski, Martin & Wood - Ekoostic Hooka (Live) (rp)
05. The Gossip - Dark Lines
06. Cassandra Wilson - Voodoo Reprise
07. The Avalanches - Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life

image: brightsoulphotography

Posted by squashed in Motel de Moka
 

Distant sounds of summer II

Si algun día despertara de esta siesta de fauno
Entre breñas bañada a cielo abierto.
O ya en la tarde,
acostada en el suelo de alquitrán,
escuchando a las tres magdalenas
contando rumores y goteando sangre,
me saco la pelusa del ombligo.

Rodeando el redondo calor de la canícula.

U oscilando arrítmicamente sobre la punta de un pie.
Miriápodo verde y negro,

precesión de un equinoccio.

O en el fondo de un hoyo neón,
oliendo despaciosamente cigarros de clavo.
Si algun día despertara…

Yo la tengo - today is the day
(Summer sun, 2000)
Paul Giovanni & Magnet - willow’s song
(the wicker man ost, 1976)
Pink Floyd - a pillow of winds
(Meedle, 1971)
Espers - dead queen
(Espers II, 2006)
Faun Fables - I’d like to be
(The transit rider, 2006)
Linda Perhacs - hey, who really cares
(Parallelograms, 1970)
mv & ee - beautiful mountain
(mother of thousands, 2006)
Wendy & Bonnie - by the sea
(Genesis, 1969)
Four Tet - Look after your mermaid
(No more mosquitoes single, 2001)
Psapp - tricycle
(The only thing I ever wanted, 2006)

Notes: Due to some further time complications I’ve decided to delete “Venus de Tlatilco”. I’m sorry for the few people who were following but I honestly wont have time to update it that much so I think it’s better buried somewhere for now. Secondary Mp3 blog “Caravana de Acuario” is still on the making, expect it to be fully functional in a pair of weeks (I’m rethinking it over and over again and I’m still considering squashed’s idea of doing it on blogsome).
I also added a podcast and radio stream section on our blogroll, I’ll keep on adding more of these next week (exams are almost over, yey!), so if you have some podcast or radio streams recommendations for us I’ll gladly add them to our blogroll first update.

Kahlo has opened a new blog called “Las mujeres impares” on which she’ll publish (weekly or so I guess) her comic strips about three miró-styled women representing different body parts (tits, ass and belly, as you may have guessed). General opinion is that Kahlo is attempting to draw some sort of porn for kids. Go see for yourself ;D

Speaking of, I’d greatly recommend you to visit “Historietas reales“, a blog on which 16 cartoonists have joined forces to post comic strips about their everyday experiencies. The comics are in spanish but don’t let it keep you from enjoying the great artwork and ideas in most of these works. Also try Cartoon Modern, a recent blog I bumped to and which is apparently only covering 1950’s animation design and was created by Amid Amidi to promote his new book with the same name. Amidi also runs the marvellous weblog Cartoon Brew with Jerry Beck. I think I’ll go back to my drawing obsession this summer…

Also visitCarl Kruger’s blog for a quintet of his own experiments in noise music (remember to turn your speakers all the way up before playing).

Eye Candy: If you have the time and the speed connection I’d strongly recommend you to check “THE TALE OF HOW” a mostly CG animated short produced by the South African animation collective Blackheart Gang which features amazingly dense and layered visuals. I find the song a bit annoying but still, one of the most beautiful shorts I’ve seen in a long time.

Image: Illustrated Apocalypse of 1313 from the “Bibliothèque nationale de France”.

Posted by Moka in Motel de Moka
 

Amparanoia

Amparanoia” para empezar con ritmo una semana con gafas de sol y tirantes ;D

Amparanoia - Caravane
Amparanoia - Buen rollito
Amparanoia - Que te den
Amparanoia y Manu Chao - Bella Ciao

tra la ra …

Posted by kahlo in Motel de Moka
 

// Siempresente — - if everpresent now.

(comienzo del instante)

I’m
no longer willing to
will my life,
NOW I just am.

- . - - . -
. - - . - .
- - - . - -

“partiendo de la idea de que el tiempo fluye, el tiempo sólo existe en movimiento, por lo tanto debemos entender que el futuro no existe en realidad - quizás existirá pero nunca podrá existir hoy, y lo que hoy no existe simplemente no existe - y que el pasado es una idea sólo referencial, pues el ayer en algún momento fue hoy, y cuando dejó de serlo dejó de suceder; si hemos de ser concisos, el tiempo existe solamente en presente, es decir que es, por acuñar un término apropiado, siempresente.”

Passengers,
Always Forever NOW.
Gustavo Cerati,
Aquí & AHORA (por 3 Mins.).
His Name Is Alive,
Here Forever Always.
Icebreaker & Manual,
Into Forever.
The Flaming Lips,
All We Have Is NOW.
Passengers,
Beach Sequence.

(fin del instante)

Arte: Maggie (The Blue Shadow).

Posted by GiL in Motel de Moka
 

Summer List No.3

First playlist post for summer. Yes, there are actually 2 playlists preceeding this one, but this goes first because it fits the mood. As a whole, I can’t decide yet how the entire set will go, but most probably brit-pop, hip-hop and a dab of j-pop. Public enemy at MdM! New in this list The Picture, a british britpop by way of Brooklyn. Pretty fun. The classic: YYY and Noodles.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with A Night
Noodles - Lite Pop
Hot Hot Heat - Middle Of Nowhere
Pinetop Seven - On the Last Ride In
The Picture - Walking in Flight

image credit: Feuillu

Posted by squashed in Motel de Moka
 

Distant sounds of summer

Solamente existen tres poetas estadounidenses que valen la pena, como bien decía Pound: Marianne Moore, Williams Charles Williams y Mina Loy. Esta última es desde siempre mi favorita.
Hoy le he regalado al polvo debajo de mi librero el poemario de Yeats que compulsivamente compré en un aeropuerto y lo he intercambiado por “Lunar Baedecker and time tables”.

El verano me da una pereza infumable…

I
Spawn of fantasies
sifting the appraisable
Pig Cupid his rousy snout
rooting erotic garbage
“Once upon a time”
Pulls a weed white star-topped
among wild oats sown in mucous membrane
I would an eye in a Bengal light
Eternity in a sky rocket
Constellations in an ocean
whose rivers run no fresher
than a trickle of saliva

These are suspect places

I must live in my lantern
trimming subliminal flicker
Virginal to the bellows
of experience
Colored glass

II
At your mercy
our universe
is only
a colorless onion
you derobe
sheath by sheath
remaining
a disheartening odour
about your nervy hands

[Mina Loy]
(Psst: you can find the entire text of Lunar Baedecker in here.)

1. Tindersticks - Walking
Red House Painters - Smokey (Demo)
Susumu Yokota & Rothko - Brook And Burn
Songs Of Green Pheasant - I Am Daylights
Atahualpa Yupanqui - Punay (Mi pastorcita perdida)
Migala - The guilt
Neil Young - down by the river
Tara Jane O’ Neil - the phoenix
Devendra Banhart - Hey Mama Wolf
Beirut - the canals of our city
11. Neil Halstead - high hopes

Image: Henry Darger, who by the way never met Wolfi in person nor his work and listened to too much Neil Young on his last 3 years of life. His lucky number was 11 and apparently he had the same sleeping disorders that I have ( insomnia and light hypnopompic hallucinations).

Posted by Moka in Motel de Moka
 

Breaking : Soul Asylum - Stand Up And Be Strong

We have just received new track from upcoming Soul Asylum Album, Silver Lining.

Apparently planned for July 11 by Legacy.

“Drummer Michael Bland (Prince, Dixie Chicks, Sons Of Almighty) contributed to the album as did the Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, who stood in as bassist for two tracks (”Bus Named Desire” and “Oxygen”) and sang on four. According to a spokesperson, Bland and Stinson will join Murphy and vocalist Dave Pirner on a spring tour, which begins April 12 in Minneapolis and will run through August.”

Soul Asylum - Stand Up And Be Strong

Track listing:
“Stand Up and Be Strong”
“Lately”
“Crazy Mixed Up World”
“All is Well”
“Bus Named Desire”
“Whatcha Need”
“Standing Water”
“Success Is Not So Sweet”
“Great Exaggerator”
“Oxygen”
“Good for You”
“Slowly Rising”

see also: Soul Asylum, Billboard news.
image credit:

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