July 18, 2010 at 9:46 pm
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson
This is the first of the “Midnight tempo” series. You can find some rhytmical pop sound to surfing or traveling across the midnight.
See you in the next time. While enjoy it.
Photo: Twentyeight
June 10, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Photo: Julia Galdo.
Now that I am no longer a hyperbolic youth able to make love to you 37 times an afternoon, perhaps my odes are better in recompense.
Here is a semitransparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. Step inside the lightbulb of my fermentation, Aphrodite, and tell me of the heating ducts of your day.
Put your eyelash on my pillow, I will do whatever you say.
- Dean Young.
April 30, 2010 at 5:05 pm
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″
+ 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.
April 20, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Photo: Flypeterfly
“Spring, in full swing.”
- Jens Lekman - Boisa-bis-o-boisa
At the Department of Forgotten Songs (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
- Yellow Magic Orchestra - Ongaku
Naughty Boys (Alfa, 1983)
- Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira
Utakata No Hibi (Better Days, 1983)
- Jj - My Way
Let Go / My Way (Sincerely Yours, 2010)
- Phil Cordell - Red Lady
Red Lady 7″ (Janus, 1969)
- Happy End - Kaze wo Atsumete
Kazemachi Roman (URC, 1971)
Here’s my first try at a spring mix this year. I wanted to channel some sort of picopop japanese sound with some warm hues of psychedelic sound thrown in between to balance it out. Something I was trying… wanting it to sound, innocent, green and sunny. It comes very close to what I had in mind but it’s still not perfect. Might need to make a few more attempts on the spring theme until I’m completely satisfied with it.
Play it on a lazy morning while having breakfast for maximum enjoyment.
April 15, 2010 at 12:08 am
” 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
April 9, 2010 at 6:51 pm
“When the prices of everything went up ninety-seven times in one year, M’dhara Vitalis Mukaro came out of retirement to make the coffins in which we buried our dead. In a space of only six months, he became famous twice over, as the best coffin maker in the district and as the Mupandawana Dancing Champion.
Fame is an elastic concept, especially in a place like this, where we all know the smells of one another’s armpits. Mupandawana, full name Gutu-Mupandawana Growth Point, is bigger than a village but it is not yet a town. I have become convinced that the government calls Mupandawana a growth point merely to divert us from the reality of our present squalor with optimistic predictions about our booming future. As it is not even a townlet, a townling, or half a fraction of a town, there was much rejoicing at a recent ground-breaking ceremony for a new row of Blair toilets when the district commissioner shared with us his vision for town status for Mupandawana by the year 2065. Ours is one of the biggest growth points in the country, but the only real growth is in the number of people waiting to buy coffins and the lengthening line of youngsters waiting to board the Wabuda Wanatsa buses blasting Chimbetu songs all the way to Harare”.- The Mupandawana Dancing Champion
- Minotaur Shock-The Broads
Maritime (4ad, 2005)
- James Yuill - This Sweet Love (Prins Thomas Edit)
This Sweet Love (Moshi Moshi Records, 2008)
- Little Dragon - Feather
Machine Dreams (Peacefrogs Records, 2009)
- Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On
Wave If You’re Really There (Neapolitan Records, 2009)
- El Perro del Mar - Change Of Heart
Love Is Not Pop (Control Group, 2009)
- Memory Tapes- Plain Material
Seek Magic (Acéphale, 2009)
- The Radio Dept-Heaven’s On Fire
Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador, 2010)
Before the colossal posts of Moka, I asked myself, “Is there anyone who wants more music?… Seriously?”
But then, we all live in a “Consumer Society” (whatever that means) and… Springtime is finally here!!
Following that line of thought, there is no real reason why you shouldn’t sit back and allow yourself to enjoy this timely playlist which you can take by the hand and let you follow in any “spring-situation”.
Enjoy it.
Photo: Sakurako Kitsa
