“I was the one who looked at all of you while you weren’t looking at me, and who laughed out loud sneakingly!”

1. Vibracathedral Orchestra – Baptism > Bar > Blues
Tuning to the Rooster (Important / 2005)
2. Curse of the Birthmark – Alibis
3. Chris Corsano – How Should You Pick Up The Ball And Throw It?
The Young Cricketer (2006)
4. Flower-Corsano Duo – The Fifth Truth
The Undisputed Dimension (No-Fi)
5. Michael Flower – 3pm 28 08 05
Returning to Knowing Nothing (Qbico / 2007)
6. Sonic Youth – The World Looks Red
Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols (Geffen / 1983)
7. KK Null & Daniel Menche – Untitled 1
Raijin (Asphodel / 2006)
8. L@N (Rupert Buwa Huber & Otto Muller)- B2
9. Youngsbower – Welding The Sea
Relayer (VHF / 2002)

Here comes another slightly noisy list, which I actually made before the “A”. This list not very deliberately reveals my huge favors of Vibracathedral Orchestra and all related people and things (i.e. Michael Flower and his shahi baaja *** — interestingly Mr. Bubba mentioned him and the album in the comment to “A”). I’m also quite contained with my discovery of Youngsbower(Richard Youngs + Matthew Bower)– though very delayed. The whole album is as expected exhilarating and cool as ever. Specially the very distinctive crystal-like bleeps and constant beats in the background. Hope you enjoy.

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“Sound Balance”

01. Aphex Twin - jynweythek ylow
DrukQs (2001)
02. Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata in F-sharp minor K.25
17 sonate per pianoforte/Vladimir Horowitz (1995)
03. Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Selection June, Barcarolle
(Sviatoslav Richter, 1983)
04. Raison D’Etre – Metamorphyses Phase V
Metamorphyses (2006)
05. Joanna Newsom – The Book of Right-on
The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
06. Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata in G major K.547
17 sonate per pianoforte/Vladimir Horowitz (1995)

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Note: Somebody ask for dark ambient. Here is one track by Raison D’Etre from their Metamorphyses. It has a lot of interesting changes of sound that makes it interesting despite long play time for each track. It also doesn’t try to be strange, everything seems fit. The rest are excellent technicians. Musicians job is to create and control sound output of his instrument to a degree that nobody else can match. There lies an instrumentalist skill, the thing that makes a musician ego. This problem is specially tricky with acoustic instrument where sonic control only exist at the moment source of vibration occurs. There is nothing beyond, no electronic. So control occurs in much shorter window. About the list. Overall this list is quite and mostly about solo performance, electronic next to acoustic. The star in the list: Vladimir Horowitz [1], probably the most famous 20th century technicians with unmatched tone control and sense of overall balance. Etc. enjoy.

image: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [Bibimorva]

De vuelta en Francia donde el verano nos recibe con noches lluviosas y temblores lúnaticos y de día el calor nos levanta rudamente los inflamados pómulos, con los ojos empujados sin poder librarse facilmente del agua ardiente que se mueve en ellos. La luz del verano nos engulle con una obcecada hambre blanca y nos enceguece con su copa vacia en cuyo fondo negrea una tenue carbonilla de locura. Una aridez opaca en donde se aclara el ofuscamiento.

La estación mas difícil de domar es el verano irreprochable, hay que andarse con mucho cuidado y paciencia de su insaciable gula y traerlo a casa como un noble animal poderoso despúes de haber vencidos juntos la demencia.

1. Bobby Hebb – sunny
   (Sunny / 1966)
2. Fontella Bass – hold on to this time
   (Free / 1972)
3. Richard Berry & the Pharoahs – louie louie
   (Coffee and cigarettes OST / 2003)
4. Benny Goodman orchestra – all the cats join in
   (all the cats join in / 1946)
5. Anita O’ Day & Oscar Peterson – love me or leave me
   (Anita sings the most / 1957)
6. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross – gimme that wine
   (Everybody’s boppin / 1959)
7. Five Royals – standing in the shadows
   (Todd 7″ / 1963)
8. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’77 – after sunrise
   (Brazilica! compiled by Gilles Peterson / 1996)

3 videos 3:

Lambert Hendricks & Ross – everyday I have the blues
Cab Calloway – Reefer man
Louis Jordan – let the good times roll

Foto: Boristheblade.

I escaped last week for a couple of days on the beach. Eventhough I’m against tanning and sunbathing, those days at the beach were fortifying and refreshing. I spent most of my days in quiet reflection, thinking of everrything and nothing, walking barefoot wherever I went, feeling the combination of wood, sand, rock and grass beneath my feet was nothing short of exhilirating.

When diving into the sea I was also quiet, diving in, pretending I was fish (literally closing my eyes and pretending I was a fully colored fish), looking for flat rocks for skipping on the ocean surface and ocassionally getting a jolt whenever a piece of seaweed would rub against me making me think of a horrible jelly fish causing a painful burning rash. The waves were small, which was perfect for me, because I hate having sand in my bathing suit. When the sun would rise high in the noon sky, I would retire under a tree to read and listen to whatever tunes my ipod would spit out. It’d been years since I last visited sandy shores one of the main reasons, well, work and my aversion to tanning but I have to say, the beach, can be paradise and I’d forgotten that… there’s something about being semi-naked and barefoot all day that just makes you feel more you. I turned off my cellphone and felt completely untraceable…beautiful. After a day on the beach, in the late afternoon I would jog my heart out alone feeling all of my ailments and heart-opressing emotions just melt off with every drop of sweat, fall off with every rock I jumped and every crab I chased. At night I would go out on a night-safari with only one objective in mind, harassing and chasing every single crab I could find and try to find the biggest hermit crab I could, it was like being 10 years old again!

So I’m back here now making my last post for the summer… my computer’s CD\DVD driver just crashed and I’ve gotta send it for repair back at HP headquarters in the US so that is gonna leave me out of business for a while, plus, I leave for Beijing for three weeks on Saturday, so my next post can be expected to land somewhere in late July.

I want to make this an interactive post, you will find the songs below just like any other post, but there are also 4 little pictures which contain surprise songs, you can download ‘em like you would any other song on the blog.

1. Wild Beasts -Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants
(Brave Bulging Buoyant, 2006)
2. Trolle Siebenhaar – Sweet Dogs
(Sweet Dogs, 2007)
3. EBB – Keep or nothing
(Loona, 2006)
4. Markus Guentner – Never Want To Stop Playing That Game
(Lovely Society, 2006)
5. Carlos Gardel – Sus Ojos Se Cerraron
(16 Exitos Vol. 2, 1989)
6. Gabin - Bang Bang To The Rock ‘N’ Roll
(Mr. Freedom, 2004)
7. Caetano Veloso – Lost In The Paradise
(Caetano Veloso, 1969)

To incorporate the great amount of work undertaken for the project into the formal bureaucracy never seemed a particularly savvy idea, and as a result during the 1960s somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of NASA’s overall budget went for contracts to purchase goods and services from others. Although the magnitude of the endeavor had been much smaller than with Apollo, this reliance on the private sector and universities for the bulk of the effort originated early in NASA’s history under T. Keith Glennan, in part because of the Eisenhower Administration’s mistrust of large government establishments. Although neither Glennan’s successor, nor Kennedy shared that mistrust, they found that it was both good politics and the best way of getting Apollo done on the presidentially – approved schedule. It was also very nearly the only way to harness talent and institutional resources already in existence in the emerging aerospace industry and the country’s leading research universities. – Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis

“It was the Future”

01. Jimmy Smith – Mission Impossible
Livin it up (1968)
02. United Future Organization – The Planet Plan
3rd Perspective (1996)
03. Rova Orkestrova – Electric Ascension
Electric Ascension [Live] (Atavistic Records, 2005)
04. Zu – The Elusive Character of Victory
Igneo (Frenetic Records, 2006)
05. Vandermark 5 – The Trouble Is
Burn The Incline (Atavistic Records, 2000)
06. Amon Tobin – The Lighthouse
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Sountrack (Ninja Tune, 2005)
07. Philip Glass – Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano (1989)

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There is something about being futuristic. It’s always outdated by the time the effort is done. And to me, there is nothing worst than the Apollo mission imageries. The look like a sad relic of previous era, very expensive at that too. Anyway, the soundtrack to that thought would be Jimmy Smith later work. His attempt to incorporate various TV tunes to stay relevant is hallmark of late 60′s. Memorable but doesn’t last. The thumping beat the melody, the TV friendly tunes. All that. Second part of the list is rock and electronica avant garde. I think I manage to make them easier on ear than they should be. All of those albums are worth owning, specially Vandermark 5‘s Burn the Incline and Zu. Let’s see how fast this sound gets old.

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image: bcostin, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]