We’re moving up to the mountains
December 27, 2006 at 10:15 pm
01. Nancy Wilson - lucky trumble
(Almost Famous OST, 2000)
02. The Poppy Family - a good thing’s lost
(A good thing’s lost 1968 -1973, 1996)
03. Blind Faith - can’t find my way home
(Blind Faith, 1969)
04. Manassas - Johnny’s Garden
(Manassas, 1972)
05. Fuhrs & Frohling - street dance
(Ammerland, 1978)
06. Amorphous Androgynous - divinity
(The isness, 2003)
07. Panda Bear - comfy in Nautica
(I’m not/comfy in nautica, 2006)
08. T. Rex - afghan woman
(My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair, 1968)
With the passive/aggressive issues worked out through intense family planning, the Moka family and friends will spend the weekend up on the mountains living in collective rooms with five, six or twelve people, unbathed, hungry like the wolves, going out at night to caress tree’s crust, getting stung in places we haven’t yet discovered, making drunken expeditions into the heart of the wood and dancing around bonfires. Some of my younger cousins have practiced their spear throwing throughout the week, prepared to raise the bloodlust at the bi-annual white-toothed shrew hunt (but be tranquil readers, as for the fourth year running noone has ever found one).
Still on winter break so it seems, sorry for the irregular updates, I’ll be returning January 2nd, may you all have a safe and happy new year.
Photograph: Vitadolce. Please be warned that staring at it for long periods of time might cause retinal detachment.
hi,have just discovered yr blog and am busy downloading some choons: this is a great opportunity to hear some of the music that has been turning up on a lot of end of year lists - thanks!
it is good to see such a mix of genres too: despite our supposed inhabitance in postmodernity many blogs are not as eclectic as yours which is a real shame. keep up the good work, thx agin!
This list reminds me of the old days, classic Motel, y’know, like earlier in the year.. I dunno, am I wrong…
Moka me encantaron las canciones, me las llevo para la carretera. yo tambien voy a estar en la sierra este fin de semana en el rancho de los tordos, espero verte por alla.
i am very confused about the amophous androgynous and the future sound of london, i thought the ‘alice in ultraland’ album was cancelled or at least they changed the name
[confused face]
Chris: thanks so much for the kind words, please enjoy your stay.
Mkrgk: I loved that joni mitchell and golden avatar tracks you posted on “another night on earth” they would sound good mixed with this ones. I definitely find the list warmer than most of the music we’ve been having up here lately, but it really must be the time of year.
fk: they’re the same band. Amorphous androgynous was a sort of psychedelic side project from FSOL, they released two albums under the moniker: “the isness” which is a great album from which the track above comes from and “alice in ultraland” released 2005, that one is very unfocused, i didn’t like it. I haven’t heard any news about them dont know if they plan to release something new soon.
and here i was all mixed up and confused! thanks moka
Hey, just listening to them, great songs Moka! A couple of years ago someone once gave me a mixtape with lots of stuff like Jackson Browne and Gram Parsons on it and I remember this Manassas track being amongst them. Great track, I love that early 70s sound! Hope you’ll have a good time up there in the mountains.
I think I need to master this Dreamhost business so that I can do a post on here. I actually did one but gave up trying to upload the tracks. Mr. Keyz will help me I’m sure, cos he’s got broadband at home and such. Y’know he’s actually one of my oldest friends and we finally bumped into each other again after about 10 years or something. He makes music videos for dance labels in the U. S. and elsewhere. I didn’t even realise, he was just telling me the other day all blase like, and I was like, huh? Weird, I probably should pay more attention or something. Should have realised something was up, he knows Franscois K. and Larry Heard and all these other people. Anyway I’m just overjoyed that we’re friends again.
MK,
if you run XP, you also can use the “built-in” ftp application.
after you make the connection, (as in the email)
then you should be able to drag and drop file, just as you do inside your own computer.
I don’t even have a computer at home, I work with them and they are no longer welcome in my house, hee hee. I used to rely on the unintended charity of Internet Cafe’s previously but I got fed up with it. Christopher from Another Night On Earth is doing all the uploading for me for his blog. All the stuff I’ve posted there has been from vinyl that I own, cos he has a setup to do that kind of thing. I wanted to post both Dreamland and Golden Avatar on here awhile ago already but I never could cos I couldn’t record them. The track by Movement In The City that was posted today is an ultra rarity and it was really cool to get that one online, especially since it’s from South Africa. I’m hoping Chris will let me do some short mixes, podcast style, which I intend to post here when it all comes together. We’ll see how that goes. He was actually a fan of the Motel before I met him again and he was pretty surpised that it was me posting all along. Oh yeah, we do both have the same first name just in case anyone thought I may have lost my mind and started blogging with two personalities… you never know…
Johnny’s Garden was the very first tune I wanted to play when I bought a (cheap) 12 stringed guitar in the 70’s. Thanks for the memories…!