I’ve been wanting to post for the last couple of days, but I just haven’t been able to find the time, things have been hectic as usual, and I’ve been a teensy bit absent unfortunately.

These last days I’ve been obsessively and compulsively been listening to balkan, big band and swing music non-stop, I really do mean non-stop!
A couple of weeks ago I received a DVD that my good friend Funda sent to me with 2.3Gb in music, pure balkan and swing music, for that I decide to dedicate this post to you Funda *kissy kissy*!

So im tired… I went to bed at 6am to wake up at 7.30am… I ended up waking up at 8.15am…which made my way to Uni total chaos… I woke up in a jolt, threw on whatever was on my bathroom floor, RAN to my car, broke about 2 dozen traffic laws, parked my car in a not so orthodox way if you know what I mean, RAN all across campus and arrived just in time for my 8.30am class… I mean, how cool is that? *giggle*

So I hope this post tickles your fancy!

Jazzy, Big Bandish and Swingy:

+ Dean Martin – Ain’t That A Kick In The Head
+ Claude Bolling & Stephane Grappelli – Crazy Rythm
+ Sam Butera – The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Fever
+ Louis Prima – Just A Gigolo, I Ain’t Got Nobody
+ Gitte Hænning – Jeg Snakker Med Mig Selv
Balkanish and Turkish Rock:

+ Shantel – Borino Oro
+ Duman – Rüyanda görsen inanma
+ Candan Erçetín – Bir Dalda Iki Kiraz / Sallasana Sallasana
+ Goran Bregovic & Giorgos Ntalaras – Pou Na Sai Twra, Anna
+ Istanbul Calling – Baba Cay

Image: Gianluca Petrella by redart

PRELUDE: Little Mole Krtek: Ahoj!

art: Roy de Forest

1. Thai Elephant Orchestra – Somneuk & Four Elephants
2. The High Llamas – The Goat Looks On
3. Kaada – Birds Of Prey
4. Martes martes – Mertens At Night
5. Brian Eno & Robert Wyatt – Flies
6. Volcano The Bear – Lily And The Sparrows
7. Pied de Poule – Boum!
8. Andrew Chalk – Old Hive
9. Stephen Vitiello – 9 Out Of 10

note: Thai Elephant Orchestra, the members of the band are of course elephants…

“Texture No.3b (Reverse Root) ”

Jimmy Smith – Root Down (And Get It) (Root Down, 1972)
Dee Lites – Groove Is in the Heart (World Cliques, 1990)
The UMC’S – One To Grow On (Giant Steps, 1993)
Public Enemy - Fight The Power (Fear of a Black Planet, 1990)
Beastie Boys – Flute Loop (Ill’ Communication, 1994)
Aphex Twin – En trange to exit (Classics, 1995)
Mary Lou Williams – Rosa Mae (Zoning, 1974)

Note: I am back to prepping big list with series of smaller lists. I stumble upon this blog entry discussing the meaning of root music, “Still, the distinction between roots and commercial, like that between high art and low art, or cultivated music and vernacular music, is not really all that clear, nor all that helpful. Often the highest, most cultivated art has vernacular influences (in the concert repertoire, often unrecognized because they are vernaculars from long ago), and vernaculars themselves are often cultivated (and, indeed, commercial) in ways that escape the notice of commentators.” (via dialm) I am stealing idea for this list. Not if a work of music is vernacular or beyond commercial recording era, but how certain sound, original riff/pattern, can spread throughout musical works and transformed by artist’s work. In this case “groove” (one of MdM fav. rythm it seems) and “funk”.

No.3b is really a Sunday/daytime list, loaded with groove. Starts with Jazz masters slowly moving toward electronic and returns. It has a lot of abrupt change, but really very loungy. Even with scortching Jimmy Smith, Public Enemy, and ends with Mary Lou Williams. Enjoy.

see also : No. 2a
image : Thomas Hawk

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

slowdive 
live at the sentrum scene in oslo, norway
october 10, 1993 thankyou to torsten.

1. machine gun
2. souvlaki space station
3. slowdive
4. avalyn i
5. catch the breeze
6. melon yellow
7. morningrise
8. she calls

image. pink sherbert
see. loveless, valentine 2007