Antonio Bribiesca – no hagas llorar a esa mujer
(la feria de las flores, 2005)
Ry Cooder – cancion mixteca
(Paris, texas OST, 1988)
Quilapayun – elegia al Che Guevara
(El pueblo unido jamás será vencido, 1975)
Chavela Vargas – Macorina
(Noche Bohemia, 2001)
Son de Madera – la llorocita
(Las orquestas del día, 2003)
Devendra Banhart – a sight to behold
(a sight to behold/be kind, 2004)
Kid Koala + P Love – moon river
(Nufonia must fall book tour, 2003)
Bjork – the boho dance
(a tribute to Joni Mitchell, 2007)
Do make say think – a tender history in rust
(you, you are a history in rust, 2007)
Low – hatchet
(Drums & guns, 2007)

Ahorita mirame bien. Mirame que bajo por los musgos y me pierdo. Que sigo entre las piedras. Que todavía escucho Chavela Vargas los domingos. Y no se les ocurra decirle a ella que va a crecer la hierba pronto. Para ella solo son gusanos y ceniza. Polvo en las sienes, polvo de luz en la saliva. ¿Qué importa que me quede un año inmóvil? Hay tiempo. Hace falta esperar. Lo creo y no lo creo. La mano se queda abierta. La boca ya no, porque luego dicen que entran moscas.
Elegía que se termine con la fiebre, no. Con su figura. In pace.

Fotografía: Leora Laor.

1. popol vuh – ah!
2. popol vuh – morgengruss ii
3. penguin cafe orchestra – air a danser
4. penguin cafe orchestra – lullaby
5. phelan sheppard – anuncios perfumados
6. phelan sheppard – the plantaganet whore
7. phelan sheppard – lady never city
8. perry blake – broken statue
9. perry blake – so long
10. perry blake – i’m still waiting

11. beaumont – bacharach

image: Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl. 1658

Second part from SXSW 2007. While compiling this list, I was trying to figure out if there is new trend I need to pick up. To be honest, after downloading and listening to some 400 songs, I have no idea which is what. So I ended up doing the usual thing. Get rid of anything that I don’t like (metallica clone), split it up into daytime or mellower night time, then try to make an interesting list by randomly clicking and catch anything interesting.

This one is a generic day time pop/rock. Or maybe early evening. I’ll call it the “Spaghetti Incident” list. They are really standard rock, familiar and comfy. Not edgy yet somewhat noticeable. It’s A blend of mid tempo southern rock with a sprinkle of euro twist. Gentle and catchy pop: Tacks, the Boy Disaster, Toubab Krewe. I like their rythm section.

“Shake Shake Shake”

01. Ian McLagan – Hello Old Friend * (web)
02. White Denim – ShakeShakeShake * (web)
03. X-Wife – Ping Pong * (web)
04. The Wombats – Moving to New York * (web)

“Bearfight”

05. Ari Hest – So Slow * (web)
06. Video Hippos – Bearfight * (web)
07. To Live And Die In LA – What We Have Is Now * (web)
08. Tacks, the Boy Disaster – Frozen Feet * (web)

“Circus Of Enlightenment – Terra Nova”

09. Toubab Krewe – Devil Woman * (web)
10. Vic Thrill – Circus Of Enlightenment * (web)
11. Thomas Dybdahl – A Lovestory * (web)
12. Via Audio – We Can Be Good * (web)

13. David Vandervelde – Jacket * (web)

14. iLiKETRAiNS – Terra Nova * (web)
15. Pawa Up First – Detour * (web)

see also: Part. 1
Image: muha

I felt this had already happened but I was about to see it again…. Mind numbing, mentally crushing, membrane sloshing noise. Manhattan rumbled through night and I never knew that. Had suspected, had read it on t–shirts: ‘The city that never sleeps.’ But didn’t need to believe it. Sound disconnected from action. Each tone drifts against the next with nowhere it would rather be. No desire of dominance, No call to signify nothing. Gotta get me a token, make the rumble of the ‘A’ my lullaby. Gotta escape to the womb of my room. I never believed in New York nights.
[Recoil - new york nights]

Image: Stella Im Hultberg via dada kahlo.

Moloko. Really.. what is it to say about Moloko? For me, I can say they practically spun my world upside down. I first discovered them with the Batman Returns OST, I saw the Fun For Me video on TV and I remember saying to myself, “That lady is just SO cool!”

It wouldn’t be until a few years later, I became totally obsessed with music and started looking Moloko up for anything I could dig up. So for years I’ve been a raging Moloko fan, and I feel the need to spread a bit of the joy around

Mixing styles such as house, dance, acid-jazz, trip-hop, etc. Moloko created a whole new vibe in music, their style was trippy, their attitude pscychodelic, the voice was sizzling, and looks were more than enchanting. You CANNOT do anything but love’em.
So, what we’ve got here today, is the Black Session Moloko had in Studio 105, Paris, October 2003.

Hope you haven’t heard it, and enjoy it:

1. Moloko – Boo
2. Moloko – Dominoid
3. Moloko – Fun for Me
4. Moloko – Ho Humm
5. Moloko – I Can’t Help Myself
6. Moloko – It’s Alright With Me
7. Moloko – Killa Bunnies
8. Moloko – Lotus Eaters (My personal favorite)
9. Moloko – Party Weirdo