” Fun short pieces ”

01. Mozart - “L’ho perduta… me meschina!” Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 Act
Amoureuses / Patricia Petibon (2008)
02. J.S. Bach – Italian concerto in F major andante BWV 971
Bach: Italian Concerto; Partitas Nos. 1 & 2; etc. / Glenn Gould (2006)
03. Tomaso Albinoni – Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.9 No.2 – 3 Allegro
Albinoni: Oboe and Violin Concertos (Apex, 2002)
04. Bohuslav Martinu – Písnicky na dve stránky (Songs on two pages, seven songs an Moravian folk poetry) – 2. Súsedova stajna (The Neighbour’s Stable)
Songs My Mother Taught Me / Magdalena Kozena (2009)
05. Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan – I Remember Learning How To Dive
Prospect Hummer EP (2005)
06. Bela Bartok – No.9 Round Dance II: Andante/No.10 Funeral Song: Largo
Bartók for Children / Jeno Jando (2006)

note: Shot evening pieces. Animal Collective request plus light melodic classics. Remember when you were a kid most of the time music never make any big thematic sense? The things they make you play. And later on you find out, they are all some kind of basic exercise to fit your limited attention span and fingering skill? Well, this is a tongue and cheek version of that. Short phrases and melody to barely fit attention span of a gnat. ha.. But I hope you enjoy them with a big smile, they are all very well executed too. cheers.

image: zandwacht

The trees were draped with an astonishing assortment of household goods: jackets, tires, chairs, bicycles. It became something of a contest to see who could find the most amazing item in the branches. Except for an occasional Humvee full of National Guard members and some Spanishspeaking workers, we were the only people in the area. It was eerily still. (A New Orleans Times-Democrat account of the Mississippi flood of 1882 described this sort of post-diluvian silence as “the quiet of dissolution.”) Near the town of Empire, two fishing boats, the Sea Falcon and the Sea Wolf, both a hundred and fifty feet long, had landed across all four lanes of Highway 23. – Watermark

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” Cowpunk vs. Mother earth. 2010. ”

01. Eli et Papillon – Une chanson pour tout dire
(Demo 2010)
02. Neil Young – Heart Of Gold
Harvest (1990)
03. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Before You Accuse Me
Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
04. Holly Golightly – Mother Earth
Slowly but Surely (Damaged Goods, 2004)
05. The Black Keys – Do the Rump
The Big Come Up (Alive Records, 2002)
06. Reverend Horton Heat – Marijuana
Holy Roller (Sub Pop, 1999)
07. Jimi Hendrix – Crying Blue Rain
Valleys Of Neptune (2010)
08. The Coral – Dreaming of you
The Coral (2003)

note: It’s burning summer blues, cowpunk. Something slow, but not mellow. Blues but not sad. Slow burn, perfect to listen while fighting 4 pounds of crawfish and a big cup of sweetened tea. Maybe yelling at TV for all the wrong things that goes on in the world. The war, the oil spill, the recession, neighbor’s dog and the clunking fridge.

see also: Cow punk
image: mickiky

From far away. Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown
- The strangler.

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” Summer 2010. It’s not a good year, but we stick together. ”

01. Alternative TV – Nasty Little Lonely
The Image Has Cracked (Anagram Punk UK, 1978)
02. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Switch
The Scream (1978)
03. The Stranglers – Golden Brown
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
04. Wire - Fragile
Pink Flag (Restless Records, 1977)
05. The Adverts – Newboys
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts (Fire UK, 2002)
06. The Damned – New Rose
Damned Damned Damned (Stiff, 1977)
07. The Stranglers – European Female
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
08. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
Crazy Rhythms (Bar None, 2009)
09. The Jam – Smithers-Jones
The Sound Of The Jam (2002)

Ah, sorry guys, been a little slow. I am trying to keep up. How about something to play for hot summer afternoon? I collected few early punk and new wave. That distinct British sound from late 70′s. I like them when it click, specially the melody and lyrics. “Every time just like the last // On her ship tied to the mast // To distant lands // Takes both my hands // Never a frown with golden brown” It can sing in my head over and over again softly like a lullaby. (Or maybe it’s the heat stroke.) Who says punk is all harsh. The root is all folks, songs, and blues, the things that children will sing for ages to come to fend off bad time.

Anyway, explore the web, entertain yourself while I am sorting up stuff. This can take a while, Moka will hold down the fort, so be nice to her.

see also: new wave, punk
image: Punk ‘n’ Love by ~tingfinder

” Beat and stuff ”

01. Slag Boom Van Loon – Sutjeda (Four Tet remix)
So soon (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2001)
02. Mo’Horizons – Cha Cha Cha
Remember Tomorrow (Stereo Deluxe, 2001)
03. Ursula 1000 – Boop (Skeewiff Remix)
Esl Remixed: The 100th Release of Esl Music (ESL, 2006)
04. Tosca – Honey
Suzuki (K7, 2000)
05. Chris Joss – Root Juice
sticks (ESL, 2009)

note: Standard downtempo ESL sound circa ’00. Old favorite, nothing mind blowing while I try to get back on the beat. Been a little busy. Btw, should check that Slag Boom Van Loon album, I think they are timeless. Say, what’s going on out there? Any crazy sound I should know? I’ve been living under the rock lately.

image: Seryo

Sergei Nikolaevitch, a round little man with a plump, light-complexioned face, gazed first at the master of the house, then raised his eyes to the ceiling. ‘I had no first love,’ he said at last; ‘I began with the second.’

‘How was that?’

‘It’s very simple. I was eighteen when I had my first flirtation with a charming young lady, but I courted her just as though it were nothing new to me; just as I courted others later on. To speak accurately, the first and last time I was in love was with my nurse when I was six years old; but that’s in the remote past. The details of our relations have slipped out of my memory, and even if I remembered them, whom could they interest?’

‘Then how’s it to be?’ began the master of the house. ‘There was nothing much of interest about my first love either; I never fell in love with any one till I met Anna Nikolaevna, now my wife,—and everything went as smoothly as possible with us; our parents arranged the match, we were very soon in love with each other, and got married without loss of time. My story can be told in a couple of words. I must confess, gentlemen, in bringing up the subject of first love, I reckoned upon you, I won’t say old, but no longer young, bachelors. Can’t you enliven us with something, Vladimir Petrovitch?’

‘My first love, certainly, was not quite an ordinary one,’ responded, with some reluctance, Vladimir Petrovitch, a man of forty, with black hair turning grey. -The Torrents of Spring.

“ Spring 2010. No.1 ”

01. Federico Aubele – Otra Vez
Amatoria (ESL Music, Inc., 2009)
02. The Clientele – Never Anyone But You
Bonfires on the Heath (Merge Records, 2009)
03. April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Colors
Songs for a Sinking Ship (Little Roscoe, 2010)
04. Devendra Banhart – Some People Ride The Wave
Cripple Crow (2005)
05. Holly Golightly – It’s All Over Now
Up the Empire (Sympathy 4 the R.I., 1998) (Live)

note: Ahh, spring is almost here. The snow is melting and your eyes are scanning the horizon from bedroom window. Your head is full of thousand plans. Drawing them in scrap papers to explore and conquer the backyard hills, and calling friend for secret meetings at the tree house. There will be more paper hats, wooden swords and unlimited supplies of lemonade and candies than last year. The world will be ours. This summer will be the most glorious ever.

image: swisscan