July 30, 2006 at 10:45 pm
First of all, let me thank my dear friend Moka for letting me get started in this prominent blog!
So this is to be my initial post, and with this I begin my new life as a blogger. Some of the staff may know me as DeadFishy, I made 2 guess posts a while ago :D, so “Hi!”.
Now… let us ‘cut to the chase’… songs for Nighttime, songs that help me sleep when my insomnia ruthlessly attacks me.
Enjoy.
Vashti Bunyan - here before
Alpha - Firefly
Mr.Projectile & 1010 - A1 Wild Orchids
Kathryn Williams - In a Broken Dream
New Roman Empire - Injured Ninja
Beck - Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime
Image is a LotusOverWater selfportrait… I guess you can call it a selfportrait… oh hell, I took the picture ok?!
July 28, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Some dub and reggae flavored music for these melting days we’ve been having here lately at my city. I’ll start with the classic reggae tune “I chase the devil” from Max Romeo which was later used as a sample on a certain Prodigy song and it comes from the album “The War in Babylon” which is an excellent album from start to finish and you should hunt it down immediatly if you like this sort of music.
Next comes a track from Moderat, which is a collaboration between Modeselektor & Apparat (therefore, moderat, get it?), the song comes from a compilation german magazine De:Bug released and will very probably have an official release by the end of the year (at leats I hope it does, the collaboration sounds very promising based on this track).
Since the past song counts with the collaboration of Paul St. Hilaire, I thought it’d be nice to have something from the legendary “Rhytm & sound” catalog. I’d suggest you to hunt “See Mi Yah remixes” (released in March 2005) which is basically the original instrumental “Rhythm & Sound” track plus 10 vocal versions of the song remixed by well-known electronic artists. I chose the Willi Williams as it’s the one I fancy the most but the other vocal renditions and remixes are worth your money (well, as long as you don’t mind listening to the same song reversioned eleven times), check the playlist and album info here.
“Ganja smuggling” from Eek-a-mouse’s “Wa-do-dem” is a real fun track sung in eek-a-mouse’s own vocal style called “sing-jay” and then comes Manu Chao. I admit I’m constantly burnt-out at his music but in all the simplicity and naive optimism he injects on his songs lies precisely its deceptively strong appeal. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve been forced to listen to his album “Clandestino” in parties around here. The song I offer to you comes from his last year’s album “Siberie M’etait contee” which was recorded as an accompaniment to a book of illustrations done by cartoonist Wozniak and which was only printed in limited amounts. The reggae and latin influences are gone for the most part in this album, as it is a sort of homage to Paris. “Siberie fleuve amor” is the most recognizable song from the release with a xylophone thrown in over the usual percussive driven elements Manu Chao is well known for.
The dub part ends with two leaked goodies from the Easy Star All-stars Radiodread tribute out on November: “No surprises” and “Let Down”. The former counts with the participation of the Meditations and the later with the ever hyperactive Toots and his Maytals. I was honestly expecting much less from this tribute, ok computer taken to the ever dangerous kaya territory sounded a really bad idea to me. Turns out these two songs work in their own tedious kind of way. Judge for youself and hope you have a nice weekend. Oh and also sorry for any writing inconsistencies, I’m in a bit of a hurry and I don’t have the time to double check the write-up, I’ll try and edit the post tomorrow.
Noches.
Max Romeo - I chase the devil
Moderat - let your love grow (feat. Paul St. Hilaire)
Willi Williams - see mi yah
Manu Chao - siberie fleuve amor
Easy Star All Stars - no surprises (feat. The Meditations)
Easy Star All Stars - let down (feat. Toots and the Maytals)
Image: Herve di Rosa
July 25, 2006 at 1:13 am
Nico, últimamente no puedo parar de escucharla o, más bien dicho, sentirla… ¡Me está trastocando! Aquí van mis tres favoritas:
Nico - These days
Nico - The fairest of the seasons
The Velvet Underground & Nico - I’ll Be Your Mirror
July 25, 2006 at 12:00 am
Our mother had sold every piece of furniture we had to pay our trip to Cyprus while leaving all of her savings intact.
My brother and I, back at home were watching the moon that entered lavishly into our room. For the past 2 days our house had been emptied without criterion.
Our mother was asleep, or maybe half-asleep. We turned the lights off (for mosquitoes). There were still a few things left: One closet, our beds, the refrigerator and some lamps. Those nights, without our father and all the furniture, our life felt like a parenthesis. None of us could sleep.
My brother was drinking lemonade on one of the two balconies we had, and I was on the other one listening to the ice on his glass. We were both watching the same sky, as if we were guarding our mother’s sleep, as if we’d been adults all of our lifes.
I don’t know if I felt happy or unfortunate, but I absorbed that last summer as a summary of my childhood, like the score of an age closed loudly by a door.
Cuong Vu - it’s mostly residual
(it’s mostly residual, 2005)
Asche & Spencer - under the stars
(monster’s ball OST, 2001)
Gogi. ge. org. - kampolina
(post-industrial boys, 2005)
Christian Vogel - neon underground
(station 55, 2005)
Noze - yucca
(Crafts, sounds & noises, 2005)
Moondog - lament 1
(Moondog, 1969)
The High Llamas - calloway
(beet maize and corn, 2003)
Image: Ghost ship by Carson Ellis.-
July 22, 2006 at 1:39 pm
A mix from weeks ago. I put this list together to capture a vague unsetling mood, sort of end of time - Rome is about to fall at the of its madness- mood. The era is sophisticated like no other time before yet it’s devoid of energy that push us forward as a creature. Everything seems to devolve into madness, an orgy toward destruction of some sort, even the expression of love. …anyway, much of the list is from 2 albums: Jazz Passangers and The Last Time I Committed Suicide soundtrack. Mainly freejazz and be-bop with extreme tempo change, layered rythm and that long progression. I like it, tho’ probably this is a bit less popular than other list I posts before. An Imitation of a Kiss is an interesting Blondie cover, a small poignant song about having to sustain the charade of it all. PET probably is the point of this list. enjoy.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving
hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry
fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the
starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the
supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of
cities contemplating jazz,
who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels
staggering on tenement roofs illuminated,
who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkan-
sas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes
on the windows of the skull,
who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in
wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall,
…
- Allen Ginsberg, Howl
“Meet Me Downtown for Green Tea”
01. Jazz Passengers - Syncretism
02. Hubert Laws - Yoruba
03. John Coltrane - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
04. Jazz Passengers - Immitation of a Kiss
05. Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser
06. Javon Jackson ft. Cassandra Wilson - Country Girl
07. PET - Ride My heart
note: one or two tracks has imperfect rip, but I am too lazy to re-upload 20MB files. see also: Motion Under Motion-Shimmering (part of a loose series)
image credit: Christdigital
July 21, 2006 at 5:55 pm
This is a Friday Fun emergency Broadcast. Please do not panic and proceed with pre -mind evacuation.
Thank you and have a good day.
01. CocoRosie - Good Friday
02. Morcheeba - Summertime
03. Rachel Fuller - Into My Heart
04. Langhorn Slim - In the Midnight
05. Lemon Jelly - Jelly-88 aka Come Down On Me
06. LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (I Need You)
image credit: Andrew Mason
