“27th day. Have rested and am moving south. All is well. Kerans.”

So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn sun.

J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962).

1. Mandre – Isle de Joie
– Mandre4 (1982)
2. Marcos Valle – Fogo Del Sol
– Marcos Valle (1983)
3. Ethel Beatty – It’s Your Love
– I Know You Care (12″) (1981)
4. Eliza Waut – Russia
– Eliza Waut (1985)
5. Kraftwerk – Ananas Symphonie
– Ralf & Florian (1973)
6. Nite Jewel – Falling Far
– Am I Real? (Ep) (2010)
7. Sun Palace – Rude Movements
– (12″) (1983)

It’s turning to summer in Melbourne, but a summer plagued by long periods of rain, flooding, and humidity. The nights are disturbed by noisy insects, and the sun sets late and rises early. I’ve been playing with a old drum machine from the early 70s, and the tinny ‘rumba’ and ‘bossanova’ beats it spits out provide a rhythmic backdrop to these sunny soul/disco/exotica songs. Nite Jewel is worth a mention here, effortlessly making music that complements an otherwise 80s dominated playlist.

Photo: Platonov Pavel.

The time and place and manner of my death are three facts that don’t exist yet.
Facts exist for whole centuries and then suddenly cease.
Pluto used to be a planet and now it is a chunk of debris, number 1341340.
My grandmother’s house stands on the hill above the sea where she left it.
When I come back to visit I discover a crater in its place.
This room is full of facts.
All day I let the cat out, let it in, then let it back out again.
I mean this metaphorically.
Some facts never exist.
It is winter. It is summer.
All night the branches tap at the glass.
- Trans-Neptunian Object by Suzanne Buffam.

• The Black Angels -River Of Blood
  Phosphene Dream (Rykodisc)
• The Duke Spirit – The Step & The Walk
  Neptune (La Music)
• Black Mountain – Old Fangs
  Wilderness Heart  (Jagjaguwar, 2010)
• Sleepy Sun – White Dove
  Embrace (Atp, 2009)
• The Besnard Lakes – Like The Ocean, Like The Innocent Pt.1: The Innocent
  Are The Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar, 2010)
• The Warlocks - Red Camera
  The Mirror Explodes (Tee Pee, 2009)

“El infierno de la calle, en Placeres, tenía sus trastiendas, sus hornos con boca a la luz. El aire de los hornos sofocaba hasta la muerte el alma; sabía a lodo seco. De ese lado del fuego, el aire, en cuanto tocaba el cuerpo, costras, camisa ingrata. La luz y la sombra, abismos afuera, adentro, por oficios del bochornoso, se habían amistado en una sola neblina, parto de una llama. De los rincones del horno, desde la raíz del humo, venía el tufo del polvo devorado por el incendio de los veranos. ”
-Los Músicos y el Fuego de Jesús Gardea.