Photo: Guy Sargent.

He remembers what the brown owl sounded like while he was sleeping.
The man wakes in the frigid morning thinking about women.
Not with desire so much as with a sense of what is not.

Many days in the woods he wonders what it is that he has for so long hunted down. We go hand in hand, he thinks, into the dark pleasure,
but we are rewarded alone, just as we are married into aloneness.

- Jack Gilbert, Not the Happiness but the Consequence of Happiness.

1. Tindersticks – Until the Morning Comes
   Waiting for the Moon (Beggars /2oo3)
2. Scott Matthew – Amputee
   Scott Matthew (Defend / 2008)
3. The Bony King Of Nowhere – Everything I Like
   Alas My Love (Helicopter / 2009)
4. Tord Gustavsen Trio – Curtains Aside
   The Ground (ECM / 2005)
5. Charlie Parker – Lover Man
   Ornitology (Naxos / 2006)
   

note:  A slight transition from mellow folk rock to jazz, I guess I’m trying to channel some sort of forlorn and romantic lullaby mode in here. Probably too much of a lysergic start for the weekend, but come Sunday I promise you’ll be grateful to find these ones in your collection.