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” A smile in the Evening ”

01. Bill Laswell Sacred System – Bati
Book Of Exit (Dub Chamber 4) (Roir, 2002)
02. Harold Budd – the Plateaux of Mirror
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980)
03. Ahmad Jamal – My latin
Picture Perfect (2000)
04. Jose James – Love
The Dreamer (Brownswood, 2007)
05. Aphex Twin – nanou2
DrukQs (2001)
06. telepopmusik – yesterday was a lie
genetic world (2001)
07. Junior Wells – Chitlin Con Carne
Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark, 1965)
08. Ike Quebec – Favela
Bossa Nova Soul Samba [Bonus Tracks] (2007)

note: The aesthetic qualities of photography are to be sought in its power to lay bare the realities. It is not for me to separate off, in the complex fabric of the objective world, here a reflection on a damp sidewalk, there the gesture of child. Only the impassive lens, stripping its object of all those ways of seeing it, those piled-up preconceptions, that spiritual dust and grime with which my eyes have covered it, is able to present it in all its virginal purity to my attention and consequently to my love. By the power of photography, the natural image of a world that we neither know nor can see, nature at last does more than imitate art: she imitates the artist. – André Bazin

One of those evening. Letting my mind wanders and imagining if time moves in different loop. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. What if they move in different order or overlap. What is the sound of tomorrow without wishing the yesterday go away or letting go the present. So here are some of my favorite sounds. They are all highly recommended albums. Bill Laswell’s Rior print, highly mutated jazz dub or Brian Eno/Harold Budd doing early ambient. Then the post bop jazz, sometimes before things turn free. Or Aphex Twin during its accoustic sampling phase. They are yesterday’s work, but not exactly yesterday either. Telepop on the other hand is pure nostalgia downtempo pop done today. The list ends with standard classics, but same beat texture as Jose James’s IDM drum. Standard MdM non rock selection. I tried to hold the mood the same, without falling into too much sentimentality. The soundtrack for flirting maybe?

image: ~Oryctes~