In Justice as fairness, then, the equal basic liberties are the same for each citizen and the question of how to compensate for a lesser liberty does not arise. But the worth, or usefulness, of liberty is not the same for everyone. As the difference principle permits, some citizens have, for example, greater income and wealth and therefore greater mean of achieving their ends. When this principle is satisfied, however, this lesser worth of liberty is compensated for in this sense: the all-purpose means available to the least advantaged members of society to achieve their ends would be even less were social and economic inequalities, as measured by the index of primary goods, different from what they are. The basic structure of society is arranged to that it maximized the primary goods available to the least advantaged to make use of the equal basic liberties enjoyed by everyone. This defines one of the central aims of political and social justice. – John Rawls. The Basic Liberties and Their priority. (pp.23)

” Five Days till Voting day Reminder ”

01. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Moonchild
The Legendary A&M Sessions (White Label Edsel Records, 1966)
02. Bratmobile - Panik
Pottymouth (1993)
03. Minutemen – Shit You Hear at Parties
The Politics of Time (Sst Records, 1984)
04. The Jesus Lizard – Whirl
Liar (Touch & Go Records, 1992)
05. Shellac – Movement 4
Futurist (self-released, 1997)
06. Husker Du – Pink Turns to Blue
Zen Arcade (Sst Records, 1983)
07. Dressy Bessy – Who’d Stop The Rain
Electrified (Transdreamer, 2005)

note: Reminder that voting day is next Tuesday.

image: january20th2009

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The first part of Bruner’s review is organized around the three dimensions of musical sound (time, pitch, texture). It establishes that the constituent properties of music can evoke predictable main and interactive effects. For example, music pitched in minor keys tends to be perceived as sad; music played at a fast tempo tends to be perceived as arousing. – Kellaris. Handbook of Consumer Psychology. Music and Consumer. (pp. 840)

” The Metric use of Lounge ”

01. Thunderball – Solar
Modular Systems (Eighteenth Street, 2001)
02. The Lounge Lizards – The Birds Near Her House
Queen of All Ears (Strange & Beautiful, 1998)
03. Kevin Yost – Drums Delicious
Om Lounge 3 (Om Records, 2000)
04. Boozoo Bajou – Under My Sensi (Les Demon Flowers Mix)
Boozoo Bajou: Remixes (Stereo Deluxe, 2003)
05. Cut Chemist – Motivational Speaker
The Audience’s Listening (2006)
06. Cut Chemist – (My 1st) Big Break
The Audience’s Listening (2006)
07. Isaac Hayes – Theme From Shaft
The Very Best Of (2007)
08. Infected Mushroom – Elevation
Infected Selection by SMB (Reincarnate Music, 2008)
09. Adam Guth – Shalom
Shalom (1999)

note: This series hasn’t been updated in awhile. Here is, I think, the secret of good lounge list. It should be like soda pop. It’s sweet, bubble, readily accessible. But it should not leave after taste. It should be memorable yet forgetable. It should not have after taste since it is infinitely consumable. It is indeed very expensive, well made and not common, but at the same time cannot let the popular out of sight. So when it comes to lounge list and downtempo, it’s all about selecting the exotic and elegant that goes together with the standard. .. well, that’s for No.7. Six part standard, one part free jazz, one part pop soul and nine part MdM secret powder. I hope it works, at least as a nice late night lounge list.

see also: Imperial Lounge No.6

image: marimoon

1. Maurizio Ravalico / Ollie Bown – Duetto (Part 1)
   An Introduction To Not Applicable (Web Release)
2. Haruki – Gallop On Off
   Haphazardly, While Sitting (Corps-Morts / 2008)
3. Goldmund – To
   Two Point Discrimination (Western Vinyl / 2007)
4. Bird Show – Mbira, Harp & Voice
   Bird Show (Kranky / 2008)
5. Clogs – Pitasi
   Sticks music (Brassland /2004)
6. Emmanuelle Parrenin – L’Écharpe De Soie
   Maison Rose (Ballon Noir / 1977)
7. Six Organs of Admittance – Procession of Cherry Blossom Spirits
   School of the Flower (Drag City / 2005)
8. Baka Pygmies – Yeli
   Heart of the Forest (Crammed Discs /1993)

All I do is what my flesh can do, yet everything my flesh can do feels strange.
I am the swelling of a salt sea onto an armature of chalk, the calm of a tidal pool where brain cells live, the wind, the lightning storm where thought flares into thought.
I taste damp sparks inside my tongue. If sayings gather under the name of Faith, or Art, I let them when they let me let them, and my mind clears.

- Brooks Haxton, I Am.

see also: My blood is clean Pt. 1, Pt. 2, Pt. 3, Pt. 4.
Photos: matteo perina, merel, iamjackie, agneskarin, 宝 宝

The secret of surrealism was that the most banal reality could become surreal, but only at privileged moments, which still derived from art and the imaginary. Now the whole everyday political, social, historial, economic reality is incorporated into the simulative dimension of the hyperrealism; we already live out the “aesthetic” hallucination of realty. – Baudrillard. Selected writings. Symbolic Exchange and Death. pp 146

” Sunday note. ”

01. The Pernice Brothers – Cronulla Breakdown
The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records, 2001)
02. Six Organs Of Admittance – Wind In My Palm
Compathia (Holy Mountain, 2003)
03. Elica - Ebenalp
Asymmetrica (Very Important Music, 2007)
04. Paavoharju – Ursulan uni
Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal, 2008)
05. The Skygreen Leopards – 6
I Dreamt She Rode on a Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams (Jewelled Antler, 2001)
06. Fontella Bass – Since I Fell For You
Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass (1992)
07. Vetiver – Blue Driver
A Thing of the Past (Gnomesong, 2008)

note: A list that supposedly goes together for certain state of mind. Not exactly day dreaming nor blissful, but definitely suspended. California style. Think of it like grand movie, absolutely cinematic. It is about sensation and color, but no narrative. Because all the story has been told. What’s left after the story is what this list is about … or at least that’s what I was thinking. Anyway, have a nice weekend.

also visit these west coast blogs: Speed of Dark, Rawkblog

image: kate orne

1. Sizzla – Black Woman & Child
   Black Woman & Child (Greensleves / 1997)
2. M.I.A. – Sunshowers
   Arular (XL / 2005)
3. Steel An’ Skin – Reggae is here once again
   Afro Punk Reggae (Honest Jons / 2008)
4. Tosca - Gute Lane
   Dehli9 (K7 / 2003)
5. Nickel eye – Brandy of the Damned
   Time of the Assasins (RTR / 2008)
6. The Beat – Mirror in the bathroom
   Mirror in the Bathroom single (1980)
7. The Congos – Ark of the Covenant
   Heart of the Congos (1977)
8. Harrisons - Dear Constable
   No fighting in the war room (Melodic / 2007)

With this last post of the series I close the kaya kink circle. The overall sound explored finally starts to fit in, doesnt it? In my particular vision of London, I hear an engagement with  Jamaican culture that has deeply entrenched itself into the sonic landscape of the city since the late 70′s and it has played a vital role in making Britain’s capital the vibrant and multicultural place it is today.

It is this very multiculturalism, by the way, which gave me plenty of trouble when arranging these series of posts. I kept substracting and adding sound and in the end I don’t feel like I’ve succesfully explored the British soundscape. But, then again, it would take more than 3 posts to even hint at all the musical influences coming in and out of the capital on the past century.

Previously: Midnight Marauders, Terpsichore.
Photos: Fusaka