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Surface Euphoria

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…. She dives into the lake and comes up with her head covered in muck and great kelpy strands of green pond slime – and beaming in a way that practically radiates out over the face of the lake and the desert. She has surfaced euphoric -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
-Pulling her long strands of slime-slithering hair outward with her hands and grokking and freaking over it -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
-The beads of water on her slime strands are like diamonds to her, and everybody feels her feeling at once, even Sandy -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
Tom Wolfe, ‘The Electric Kool-aid Acid test’, pg. 72

1. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian JacksonWe Almost Lost Detroit
‘Bridges’ LP, 1977
2. Theo ParrishSummertime is Here
‘Parallel Dimensions’, Sound Signature records, 2001
3. yUFine
‘Before Taxes’, 2008
4. MoodymannDon’t you want my love
‘Forevernevermore’, Peacefrog, 2000
5. Andres (feat. Tracy Vox & KDJ) - Sing About it
‘Andres II’ Mahoghani Music, 2009
6. Andras FoxGettin’ into You
unreleased
7. Trus’meWar
‘Working Nights’, Prime Numbers, 2008

This list reflects what consistently sits in my record crate. A warm up set of sorts, the list contains slow grooves, loops and samples. Gil Scott said that he could always count on Lady Day and John Coltrane to wash his troubles away. As for me, I can always count on Moody and Theo.

pic: authors – thanks to Gabby Santos, a most excellent musician & poser, and Morgan, whose shoot I piggybacked on.

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10 Responses

  1. jungle says:

    Beautiful post/playlist. Thank you very much

  2. Noel says:

    i saw how you slipped in your own track. It rolls like a big, nimble disco tractor

  3. AndrasFox says:

    Noel, that was a genuine LOL…. yeah, sneaky sneaky.

  4. schils says:

    Hey andras you got to listen the LateNightTales compiled by Lindstrøm I’m sure you will love it.
    Nice playlist

  5. Zay says:

    kudos for posting “almost lost detroit”
    i remember being so moved the first time i head that song.

    and what an amazing picture!
    you find/take the best photos
    .

  6. AndrasFox says:

    schils, i love that late nite tales mix – especially since i got to listen to it for the first time driving home at 5am. puuurfect.

  7. Moka says:

    Gil Scott-Heron is the sex.
    Great playlist. Love that track of yours Andras, really captures the spirit of your influences.

  8. David says:

    Where did that Andres track come from?! It’s gorgeous!

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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]