February 14, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.
~Catherine of Aragon, 1535
“All My Loving, Rita Lee”
Supreme Beings Of Leisure - Never The Same
Macromantics - Apple Crumble
M People - Moving on Up
Oakenfold - Motion
Bjork - One Day
Rita Lee - All My Loving
see also : love connection, loveless, How can I put into words what I feel?
image credit : Moranga
February 14, 2007 at 10:28 am
slowdive
live at the sentrum scene in oslo, norway
october 10, 1993 thankyou to torsten.
image. pink sherbert
see. loveless, valentine 2007
February 13, 2007 at 11:20 am
Where is the love to be found?
Won’t someone tell me?
‘Cause my sweet life must be somewhere to be found
Instead of concrete jungle,
Where the living is harder.
- Bob Marley, Concrete Jungle
“One, before Valentine”
Irma Thomas - Ruler Of My Heart
L’oeuf Raide - Demon Lover
Diana Krall - Popsicle Toes
Isabelle Antena - Le Poisson Des Mers Du Sud
Nathaniel Merriweather - Strokers Ace
Alpha And Omega - Ruler Of Them All
Bob Marley - Concrete Jungle
see also : will you be my valentine? , love will get you down
image : MaD Gi®L•™
February 13, 2007 at 7:33 am
Para Silene.
1. Rachel Portman - minor swing
2. Lily Allen - smile (Mark Ronson revisit)
3. COPTER4016882 - drop of water (via)
4. Jocelyne - Nitty Gritty
5. Jacqueline Taieb - 7 heures du matin
6. Tiny Tim - living in the sunshine, loving in the moonlight
7. Shogu Tokumaru - young folks
8. Rock Plaza Central - sexyback
9. Django Reinhardt - sweet georgia brown
10. Emilie Simon - flowers (version acoustique)
11. Maher Shalal Hash Baz - unknown happiness
12. Panda Bear - take pills
13. Marek Grechuta - glos
14. Camera Obscura - let’s get out of this country
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Image: Silga Goetz.
February 12, 2007 at 8:21 pm
This series begin as a humor. Why not avoid the rush and made “the best of” list at the beginning of the year. What’s so difficult about it. Put something hot, cross fingers and make prediction. Is not like anybody can figure out what truely the best music of particular year so soon after the year end. Hmmm…
Well, it was a fun experiment. Tho’ it works only partly, but it gave insight how thing unfold during 2006. And it made me pay attention, so I am doing it again
First about 2006 list.
Two biggest misses. I should have known. Retro punk made a big comeback, 2006 see a lot of this type of band. Two: drone start to creep into a lot of albums. The first one is a boring surprise, second one is exciting. Did 2006 sees electrified freak-folk? (well, sort of. There are Joana Newsom and Beirut) My big mambo jumbo: “Crisp, gentle, well executed” (I think I should pat myself on the back for inserting such save clause, because 2006 certainly isn’t filled with crazy and wild albums. Even the top blog pick for hip-hop is very benign. Herbet and JDilla.)
(The Gossip, Captain Beefheart, Cat Power, The Impossible Shapes ) are (Pipets, Hot chips, Belle & Sebastian, Bands of Horses, Cat Power, Beirut, Midlakes, The decemberist)
It’s a saving grace Moka goes hunting for folktronica all year. Otherwise who knows what will happen to MdM list.
2007 List.
I want to put my wishlist, rather than trying very hard to predict what will happen. 1. I don’t want to see “Phoney Beatles Mania” (with apology to the Clash) 2. Retro punk is over and it won’t be turning into Dream-pop and shoe gazers, because MdM has done that and I don’t think anybody around here can stand a bad clone of shoegazing bands. 3. It is math-rock, post-rock and new form hip-hop turn to go upstage on the blog. (Menomena, Boris, Fourtet, Avalanches) 4. IDM will dominate my search if I can help it, on top of folktronica, mathrock and post-rock. I am sure the last one will not happen because IDM is still struggling to break the blog and people still prone to pick “danceable electronica” instead of pure IDM.
This year list is a sketch of sound that I am looking for. How can IDM sits together with Jazz, Rock, Hip-hop and ambient? Can it contribute new sound without turning plastic, boring laptop glitch-tech and spikey? I can’t wait for end of 2007 surprise.
2007 List.
01. Max Roach - January V
(L.N.T: Four Tet, 2004)
02. Amon Tobin - Straight Psyche
(Foley Room, 2007)
03. The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
(Londong Calling, 1979)
04. Mary Lou Williams - holy ghost
(Zoning, 1974)
05. Axiom Dub - Gun Too Hot (Dub Syndicate)
(Mystery of Creation, 1996)
06. Arrah & The Ferns - Science Books
(Evan is A Vegan, 2006)
07. Third Eye Foundation - goddamit you’ve got to be kind
(Little Lost Soul, 2000)
08. Menomena - Running
(Friend and Foe, 2007)
09. Macromantics - Love Thyself
(Movements in Movement, 2006)
10. Anja Garbarek - ‘The Last Trick’
(Nouvelle Vague - ‘Late Night Tales’, 2007)
Note : Visit Headphonesex, his blog is under name spoofing attack. Help him by linking and clicking. Also: Beginning of Valentine day lists/series at MdM, MIA and BF. Will you be my Valentine?
see also : 2006 List, Best of 2006, AE no.3a-2006, Top 100 Blog pick 2006, Top 10 albums 2006 (Bubbachups), Top 5 albums of 2005, Top 6 -11 albums of 2005 .
image : Supermietzi
February 11, 2007 at 2:26 pm
The following track is a mash-up of Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic and Alexander Robotnik’s Problemes D’Amour by my friend Paul, The King Of Town. It’s really nifty and I had spent many a night grooving to this tune before I found out that Paul himself had made it. So here we go, another little slice of Johannesburg at the motel…
February 10, 2007 at 4:42 pm
But let us admit that the absurdity is a mere appearance, and that the impossibility for living beings to come back to the past is simply owing to the fact that the physicochemical phenomena which take place in living bodies, being infinitely complex, have no chance of ever occurring again all at the same time : at least it will be granted to us that the hypothesis of a turning backwards is almost meaningless in the sphere of conscious states. A sensation, by the mere fact of being prolonged, is altered to the point of becoming unbearable. The same does not here remain the same, but is reinforced and swollen by the whole of its past. In short, while the material point, as mechanics understands it, remains in an eternal present, the past is a reality perhaps for living bodies, and certainly for conscious beings.
-Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (Ch.3)
“Eternity list. Variation no.2/MdM”
01. Bjork - Play Dead
02. Etta James - At Last
03. Stan Getz - Nature Boy
04. alva noto + opiate - opto file 4
05. Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár
06. Mary Lou Williams - holy ghost
07. Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come
08. Miles Davis - Mystery
09. Paris Lounge - Le Tone
10. Digable Planet - La Femme Fetal
11. Vincent - The Conjuror
12. Modern Jazz Quartet - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
13. Moby - The Rain Falls and The Sky Shudders
Note: How do one capture the idea of eternity? At least how can one put it in a series of songs. This list was built after a blog conversation about the idea of eternity. Maybe overal this list overly relies on very beautiful pieces bordering decadent, but the basic idea is not to reject the well known that I’ve done regularly. But to embrace it tightly. (Etta James, Sam Cooke, Mary Lou Williams) Sprinkled in songs about moment of daily life, amplifying event and emotion surrounding it. The list captures and magnified awareness. (Digable Planet) The practical construction drive, earlier version at least, was a music that one would hear upon entering hybernation state for interplanetary travel. Before one sleeps, what song exactly an interplanetary traveler of the future will hear? What to remember before the sleep? I tend to pick, soul classic, mix of minimalist electronica and hip-hop thick with melody and soothing texture. (alva noto, Miles Davis, MJQ). Anyway, perfect beauty shall last as a momentary trace of sensation. The idea of eternity.
see also: Var. 0208-2007, The Eternity Playlist
image: Three editorials pictures from Madame
February 6, 2007 at 9:22 am
I saw a pretty street this morning I forgot the name
New and cleanly it was the sun’s clarion
Executives laborers exquisite stenographers
Criss-cross Monday through Saturday four times daily
Three times every morning sirens groan
At the lunch hour a rabid bell barks
The lettering on the walls and billboards
the doorplates and posters twitters parakeet-style
I love the swank of that street
Situated in Paris between the rue Aumont-Thieville and the avenue des Ternes
- Guillaume Apollinaire, Zone
Second list in New Generation exploration series. I think there is a pleasure in trying to capture the sound of a city without being there. Only from knowing how a musician is somewhat connected to a city. This list originally was built to remember Alice Coltrane, the gifted bebop harpist who recently passed away. She spent time in Paris while studying with Bud Powell in the early 60’s before returning to NY and playing with John Coltrane. CocoRosie is another duo who left Brooklyn for Paris before releasing their first strange and delicate album. The two Parisians artist in the lsit is Delaney, a slowcore recording with Pehrl and Kawaii who drop MdM email about their first EP release. That EP is interesting, combining electronic, psychedelia and electronic similar to Deerhoof.
Anyway, comment away. This series is meant to explore various interesting new sound, style and texture. Either seeing old songs next to new pieces or finding new tracks not posted before. And of course adventure. Enjoy.
“New Generation (Paris ed.)”
CocoRosie - Good Friday (web)
(La Maison de Mon Reve, 2004)
Skytree - St Croix Boomsite (web)
(Wild Forest [EP], 2007)
Miki N’Doye Orchestra - Ousu Lion N’Jie
(Joko, 2002)
Kawaiii - Kyoto (MySpace)
(Kawaiii [EP], 2007)
Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda (wiki)
(Journey In Satchidananda [1997 Remaster], 1970)
Cyrus Sullivan - Sex Worker (via)
(The Best Of MP3.COM Volume 1, 2007)
Delaney - Sur La Place Lili Boulanger (web)
(Delaney, 2005)
see also: Paris, NG (Globuchito mix)
image credit: phil h
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