Jan 24, 2009
Welcome to Alflolol
Thus time draws forward each and everything
Little by little into the midst of men,
And reason uplifts it to the shores of light.
- Lucretius, Beginning of Civilization.
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” Welcome to Alflolol ”
01. Comus - Children Of The Universe
Song to Comus: The Complete Collection (Castle Music UK, 2005)
02. DM Stith – Just Once
Curtain Speech EP (Asthmatic Kitty, 2008)
03. Cat Power – Rockets
Myra Lee (Smells Like Records, 1996)
04. The Convocation Of… – Unlimited Outer Thought Broadcast
Pyramid Technology (Tiger Style, 2001)
05. Jaffa Heights - High’N'High
SUBconscious Dub (YoYo Records, 2003)
06. The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Collage
Unpendo Ni Pamoja (Collectables, 1972)
07. Efterklang – Towards The Bare Hill
Under Giant Trees (Leaf Spain, 2007)
08. Feist and Ben Gibbard – Train Song
Dark Was the Night (4ad, 2009)
note: Saturday self indulgence list. This one actually is based on a comic I read when I grew up, Valerian and Veronique. (anybody has a copy?) It has two things: a simple background mood list for reading the comic. And second, as a fun little post a descriptive music. I am trying to imagine a futuristic nostalgia songs that I like if the comics were real. So this has a lot of folks, electronic, old jazz, in spacey atmosphere of time traveling ship. Somewhat romantic melancholy if you will. There is something silly and destructive in our ways of life, but at the same time hopeful. Welcome to Alfolol.
image: Carmen Kass by Yelena Yemchuk
see also: Welcome to Alflolol
A quick search tells me that in German the series were called “Valerian und Veronique” and in India “Linda and Valentin” but for the rest of the world they were named “Valerian and Laureline” maybe you’ll have more luck finding them around searching them this way. I’ve seen a few scans on Mezieres site (http://www.noosfere.org/mezieres/pages/val/albums.htm) and I have to say I felt very attracted to the comic. If you happen to find some full scans of it please tell.
Can’t really say if the music fits within the comic atmosphere but I really like the mood explored.
I used to read “Dylan Dog”, the “Nightmare Investigator”; I still have (somewhere) the first 100 numbers (some of them are reprinted copies)
ubcfumetti.com/international/dh_dd1_en.htm
sergiobonellieditore.it/dylan/servizi/il_mio_nome.html
Moka said,
A quick search tells me that in German the series were called “Valerian und Veronique”.
Yeah I have the almost complete german copy. that’s the only other version beside the complete french that is available online. I can’t read the french. I think the english version is only 1-5. But they are not available, since they are out of print for awhile.
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