Floorboards creak all night long in our house; the ghosts must go soon,
all night they tremble and fold their secrets in the growing heat of
the trees.

I remember again the night my roots exploded and mud sloshed in my guts.

How you resex the swinging trees and sing our trembling skins to sleep.

- Spencer Reece. Ghazals for Spring.

” Spring, in full swing. Part. 2″

• Antonio Carlos Jobim – Andorinha
  Stone Flower (ICT, 1970)
• Sora – Revans
  Re.sort (kk, 2004)
• Jurassic 5 – Canto de Ossanha
  Feedback (2006)
• Jackson Conti – Casa Forte
  Sujinho (Kindred Spirits, 2008)
• Perrey & Kingsley – One Note Samba / Spanish Flea
  Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (Vanguard, 1967)

+ Stone Flower is by miles my favorite Jobim album. Very subtle and sophisticated with some superb arrangement by Eumir Deodato. Today I’m picking Andorinha off of that album to start the playlist. It’s a very simple song fronted mainly by three musicians; Joao Palma providing a very delicate bossa beat, Jobim – absolutely brilliant – playing only the notes he needs to play on his Rhodes piano and Urbie Green, delivering a very smooth and laidback trombone performance.
+ Sora and Perrey and Kingsley give brazilian music the glitch treatment to produce some kind of retro-futuristic bossa, their approaches are wildly different though; Sora offers a polaroid, a nostalgic, detached fantasy while Perrey & Kingsley sound like a pair of crazy scientists using all sort of sounds they find in their studio library and exploding them apart just for fun.
+ Jurassic 5 and Jackson Conti provide the upbeat section this fine spring afternoon with some instrumental hip hop. Have a nice weekend!

In other things: I re-opened my twitter account. I’m still learning to use the thing, but I’ll try to log in as much as possible and post some music recommendations and motel updates as well as answering user messages and comments. So uhm…, I’ll just leave this thing here: twitter/moteldemoka

Image credits: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
See also: Spring 2010.