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“ Fleeting, like smoke. (No.2) ”

01. The Hollies – King Midas In Reverse
Butterfly (1967)
02. The Dead Science – Black Lane
Villainaire (Constellation, 2008)
03. Can - Vitamin C
Ege Bamyasi (1972)
04. Bert Jansch – Poison
Birthday Blues (Castle Music UK, 1969)
05. Moby Grape – 8:05
Moby Grape (Sundazed Music Inc, 1967)
06. Zombies – Time Of The Season
Odessey and Oracle (Big Beat UK, 1968)
07. Amon Duul Ii – Luzifers Gnom
Phallus Dei (Inside Out, 1969)
08. Faust – Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux
Faust IV (1973)
09. H.P. Lovecraft – Electrallentado
H.P. Lovecraft II (Radioactive, 1968)
10. Bo Diddley – Nursery Rhyme
Road Runner: The Chess Masters 1959-1960 (Hip-O Select, 2008)

note: Second part of series. I actually enjoy this. (more note later)

A beautiful blows, I stay at the corner, She is living in and out of tune. Hey you, You’re losing, you’re losing, you’re losing, you’re losing your vitamin C. [can] This list begins as simple construction looking for meaning. Put material together in 60′s style, fit them together in best MdM’s fashion, start with Black Lane. Let it all flow. Then things grew strange, everything sprout out of control the tighter I arrange them. A little like Lucid Dream. You are suddenly flow inside a whirlwind of strange images, yet you know everything is yours to control. Each turn and twist contains a segment of your imagination with completely different texture, but the voice and the actor are the same. There is unity, but the narrative is scattered despite coming from story book. It has time stamp, but no chronology. It has beat, but scattered rhythm flow…

So probably, it’s like a puzzle the series and mode are correct and controlled, but the lyrics and imageries are dramatic, fleeting, tightly wounded and dream like. “The Eight horses were wearing trapping as black as the night. ” [the Dead Science] Think, China Red. Heroin. So much for late modernism idea in rock n’ roll eh?

see also: Acadian Purple, Faded Love in Time of Malaise.
image: Siri by Chadwick Tyler

Photo: Kimicon.

Today I awoke before my desire.
At the foot of the bed it lay in its sore spot, twitching in nightmare or dream.
I passed my hand over it, like an abscess.

No birds were aware of me.
They came and went, nothing resembled anything else.
The house across the water was still, as if it would always be frozen.

- Matthew Zapruder.

1. Little Joy – Don’t watch me Dancing
   Little Joy (Rough Trade / 2008)
2. House of Love – Beatles and the Stones
   House of Love (1990)
3. Faces – Ooh la La
   Ooh la La (1973)
4. Orouni - Panic at the Beehive
   Jump Out the Window (Monster k7 / 2008)
5. The Middle East - Blood
   The recordings of the middle east (self released / 2008)
6. Ane Brun – The Treehouse Song
   Changing of the seasons (Heaven Hotel / 2008)

Note: Something smooth and easy for home listening.  Staring at the ceiling, waiting for your hair to dry.

There is so much novelty in the forms and rhythms furnished by these constructional methods, such novelty in arrangement and in the new industrial programmes, that we can no longer close our minds to the true and profound laws of architecture which are established on mass, rhythm and proportion: the “styles” no longer exist, they are outside our ken : if they still trouble us, it is as parasites. – Le Corbusier. Towards a New Architecture. (pp.286)

” In the Mood. Early Fall. ”

01. Thunderball - On The Sly
ESL Soundtracks: Modular Systems (Eighteenth Street, 2001)
02. Peter Tosh – Ketchy Shuby
Scrolls Of The Prophet: The Best Of Peter Tosh (1999)
03. Bukaddor & Fishbeck – Decade
Traum 100 (Traum, 2008)
04. Sofa Surfers – Gamelan
See The Light (Eighteenth Street, 2004)
05. Dominik Eulberg – Es klebt noch morgentau in deinem haar
Traum 100 (Traum, 2008)
06. All India Radio – Endless Night
Fall (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2008)
07. Marumari – I left my donut in the dilithium chamber
The wolves hollow (Carpark Records, 2000)

note: A little modern nostalgia. It’s structured atmospheric tracks. Imagine gazing out of window of superbly designed modern building. You feel like standing in a spaceship gazing out into a landscape of new planet. Planet earth. This is the soundtrack.

see also: Le Corbusier (wiki)
image: maisons privees

Photo: Coquinete.

Quilapayun – Elegía
Quilapayun 3 (1968)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 – After Sunrise
Raizes (1972)
Pep Laguarda & Tapineria – Alceu-vos, xe, que ja és de dia
Brossa d’ahir (Discmedi Blau / 1977)
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan – I remember learning how to dive
Prospect Hummer Ep (FatCat / 2005)
Silvio Rodriguez – Sueño con Serpientes
Días y flores (1975)

There was a brief moment in my life were camping out in the woods was my obsession. Sleeping was terribly uncomfortable yet it was all worth it just to wake up breathing the dewy mountain afterglow. This was way before my obsession with music, some time 10 years ago, but if I ever go camping again this short playlist will surely be joining me.

I remember ‘Sueño con serpientes’ was one of my father’s favorite songs at the time, so this is pretty much the only song on the list that I actually knew back then. I don’t know if his voice might sound kitschy for non-spanish speakers – I’ve personally always the vocal delivery of most Cuban troubadours on the corny side of things, as if trying too hard to live up to the poetic nature of their lyrics – but the music on this one is fairly interesting, some very unusual hints of psychedelia for Silvio Rodriguez which sound really good on headphones. Hope you enjoy them.

Even then I will dance in my dire clothes,
a crematory flight,  blinding my hair and my fingers,
wounding God with his blue face,
his tyranny, his absolute kingdom,
with my aphrodisiac.

– Anne Sexton. The Death King.

1. Tricky – Ponderosa
   Maxinquaye (1997)
2. M.I.A. & Blaqstarr – Way Down in the Hole (Tom Waits)
   Save ur soul (N.e.e.t. / 2008)
3. Lamb - B-line (Herbaliser mix)
   B-line single (1999)
4. Aphex Twin – IZ-US
   Come To Daddy (1997)
5. Bent – Invisible Pedestrian
   Programmed to Love (2000)
6. Flunk - Two Icicles
   Personal Stereo (Beatservice/ 2007)
7. Kid Loco – Love me sweet
   A grand love story (Yellow / 1997)
8. Trippynova – Sun is Shining
   Bossa n’ Marley (PMB / 2005)

Note: It doesn’t matter where you are when you hear this playlist, it will instantly be 1997. Some hour between 1 and 3 a.m. and you will be very much in love and turned on.

Images: ply , restlessthings, etcetcetc, dusdin.