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California Note

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 BrothersCronulla Breakdown
The World Won’t End (Ashmont Records, 2001)
02. Six Organs Of AdmittanceWind In My Palm
Compathia (Holy Mountain, 2003)
03. Elica - Ebenalp
Asymmetrica (Very Important Music, 2007)
04. PaavoharjuUrsulan uni
Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal, 2008)
05. The Skygreen Leopards6
I Dreamt She Rode on a Pink Gazelle & Other Dreams (Jewelled Antler, 2001)
06. Fontella BassSince I Fell For You
Rescued: The Best of Fontella Bass (1992)
07. VetiverBlue 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

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Category: Folk, Rock

5 Responses

  1. jungle says:

    I don’t understand the comment left by hanui… it’s a clue…

    Well, I write to say that I like your playlist SQ: very inspired, beautiful music.
    Tracks #3 and #4 don’t seem to be set in California, but they are those I prefer the most.

  2. Linda says:

    Beautiful and so different–I “heart” them too. Thanks for the mention, squashed! You are always our friend.

  3. Gavin says:

    Thanks for the music. Please do one playlist of purely Finnish acts of Paavoharju/Lau Nau ilk.

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]