motel de moka

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. -A fragment from Alice In Wonderland.

1. Tune-Yards - Little Tiger
   Bird -Brains (Marriage Records, 2009)
2. Emily Neveu - My Cosmonaut Edit
   I Wonder If the Children Know (Lefse Recors, 2009)
3. Holly Miranda-Waves
   Waves (XL, 2009)
4. Super Furry Animals - Zoom!
   Love Kraft (Beggars Banquet, 2005)
5. Cornelius- The Micro Disneycal World Tour
   Fantasma (Matador, 1997)
6. Birds & Rarities - I’ll Never Sleep Again
   I’ll Never Sleep Again (Self Release, 2008)
7. Broadcast & The Focus Group-The Be Colony
   Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp, 2009)

This playlist is called “Waiting For Santa”. Music for children and gnomes…made by both :-)
Photo: Andross

The remaining systems within ten light years are the binary red dwarf system Luyten 726-8 (8.7 light years) and the solitary red dwarf Ross 154 (9.7 light years). Our closest solitary sun-like star is Tau Ceti, which lies 11.9 light years away. It has roughly 80 percent the Sun’s mass, but only 60 percent its luminosity. The closest known extrasolar planet to the Sun lies around the star Epsilon Eridani, a star slightly dimmer and redder than the Sun, which lies 10.5 light years away. Its one confirmed planet, Epsilon Eridani b, is roughly 1.5 times Jupiter’s mass and orbits its star every 6.9 years. - wiki

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” As Big as the Solar System ”

01. Luigi Nono - Liebeslied
Wien Modern (1990)
02. Kronos Quartet - Spem in alium “Sing And Glorify”, P. 299 (arr. Kronos Quartet)
Black Angels (1990)
03. Tarentel - Blessed|Cursed
The Order of Things (Neurot Recordings, 2001)
04. Fridge - Harmonics
Happiness (Temporary Residence, 2001)
05. Nels Cline/Greg Bendian - Venus
Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) (2005)
06. Slint - Washer
Spiderland (Touch & Go Records, 1991)
07. Rachel’s - Artemisia
Selenography (Touch & Go Records, 1999)
08. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Parallel Corners
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (Planet Mu, 2006)
09. Broadcast - Look Outside
Noise made by people (2000)
10. Ralph Towner - Piscean Dreams
Solstice (ECM, 1975)

Note: Wow, posting has been sparse. Here is a big one, try to make it last for a few days :D. It’s really big, I like it. A simple post-rock mix with few string tracks. Random really, I just need an excuse to post the above beautiful solar system exploration map. So, post rock with a tinge of spacey feel is in order. Float around the solar system for a moment. In the meantime, we still trying to sort things out. (no really…really really… )

image: National Geography via Gizmodo

” Two Lists for Friends. First List. ”

01. J.S. Bach - Englisch Suite Nr.2 a-inor, BWV807 4. Sarabande
J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich (1980)
02. Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella op.87: 2. Quarrel. Allegretto
Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite; Ravel: La Mère l’Oye (2004)
03. Debussy - Pour les notes répétées
Maurizio Pollini. Debussy: 12 Etudes; Berg: Sonate Op. 1 (1994)
04. Messiaen - Catalogue d’oiseaux / Book 3 - 6. L’Alouette Lulu
Hommage a Messiaen: 8 Preludes; Selection from: Quatre Etudes de rythme (2008)
05. Bartók - Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 (1921) - 1. Allegro appassionato
Bartok: Violin Sonata No. 1 (1921) / Janacek: Violin Sonata (1914-1921) / Messiaen: Theme and Variations for Violin and Piano (1932) (1991)
06. Webern - Piano Variations, Op.27 - 3. Ruhig, fliessend
Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Webern, etc / Maurizio Pollini (1996)
07. Mozart - Sonata in F major, K.376 (374d) III. Rondeau. Allegretto grazioso
Anne-Sophie Mutter & Lambert Orkis Mozart: The Violin Sonatas (2006)

note: To make up for the slow week. It’s various modern pieces that I’ve been listening a lot lately. I can only describe the performances as scandalously magnificent. Tho’ I suspect I am getting a little partial and not exploring as wide as I should. I love Argerich’s style dammit. At any rate, a small modern list. A return to first reason why I am posting for MdM. My fantasy is to explore cutting edge music and put it together in a way that breaks the boundary. Well, if nothing else MdM is still about few people exchanging note and comment about music that tickles ones imagination. Enjoy.

PS. There are 2 files in .flac format. The Debussy might be more acessible han the webern, but they are great just the same.

see also: Song. Simply.

image: ground*floor

“As I was hiking down the mountain with my pack, I turned and knelt on the trail and said ‘Thank you, shack’. Then I added ‘Blah,’ with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world.” -  Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, Grafton Books, 1972

1. Yaw - Where Would You Be (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008)
2. Jose James - Visions of Violet (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008)
3. Dudley Perkins - Flowers (StonesThrow, 2007)
4. Suff Daddy - Drama Pts. 1 & 2 (MPM, 2006)
5. Daru & Rena - Lonely Night (Rusic, 2007)
6. VeeBeeO - No More (Rush Hour, 2009)
7. Paul White - The Composer’s Comeback (One Handed Music, 2009)
8. Hudson Mohawke - Polkadot Blues (Warp, 2009)

This is for that sublime mood of contended loneliness that only really happens in winter. These are all quite recent beat/wonky/soul things that i’ve been enjoying for a nighttime boogie. The electric glow of a radiant heater.

Drawing: by Marc Bell

Music is the second casting of the world.
- Nietzsche

1. Terry Hall & Mushtaq - A Gathering Storm
   The Hour of Two Lights (Astralwerks, 2003)
2. Staff Benda Billi - Avramandole
   Tres Tres Fort (Crammed, 2009)
3. Iva Bittová - Blazen
   Ne nehledej (BMG, 1994)
4. Group of men performing with charangos and guitars - Chimaycha
   Traditional Music of Peru Vol. 6. (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)
5. Ayarkhaan (Айархаан) - Deybiir Yryata
   Dobun Duoraan (Sounds of ancient land of Olonkho) (2005)
6. Mali Music - Institut National Des Arts
   Mali Music (Honest Jon’s, 2002)
7. Young men - Kasa Odori (Young men)
   Traditional Folk Dances of Japan (Smithsonian Folkways, 1959)
8. Thao Vong and Thao Som - Melodies for Two Khenes
   Anthology of World Music: The Music of Laos (Rounder, 2000)
9. Unknown Artist - Tangara Rave Kue
   Kosmfonia Mbya Guarani by Guillermo Sequera (O morto q fabla /2006)
10. Henry Kaiser And David Lindley - The Exiled Men
    The Sweet Sunny North (Shanachie, 2000)

note:  Who makes the world run?  Do we need a watchmaker to oil the gears and replace the rusted parts?  What kind of shoes does the world wear?  Does the early bird really get the worm?  Are fungi and nematodes necessary?  How about a wheelbarrow?  It seems to be humming an odd tune.  Maybe there is something caught in it.  Is it dragging something behind?  Call to it.  Take it for a walk.  Make a dance with a wire.  Clear your throat.   Is anyone home?  Knock on the door and let yourself in.  I apologize for the mess.  The other people just left and didn’t pick up after themselves.  We know who they are.  Why pay people to tell us who made the mess when we already know.  Lets just clean it up and get on with things.

“A schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst’s couch. A breath of fresh air, a relationship with the outside world.”

- Deleuze & Guattari, Anti Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia, 1972

James Harpman - Moving Parts
(G-Spots: Music from the Studio Library, Trunk Records, 2008)
Sven Libaek - Inner Space Theme
(Ron & Val Taylor’s Inner Space OST, Festival Records, 1973)
Andras Fox - Silverbird
(Unreleased, 2007)
The Avalanches - Tonight
(Since I Left You, XL recordings, 2001)
Fred Weinberg - Electra-Loo
(Luke Vibert’s Nuggets, Lo Recordings, 2001)
Stro…from the Procussions - Play This Song
(Metro Sampler Line 2, Metro records, 2008)
Daedelus - Femme Fatal
(A Gent Agent, Laboratory Instinct, 2004)

note: Library music, a cut from a shark documentary soundtrack, reversing, crackle, wonky things occupying the parallax space between inside and out. That warm fuzzy feeling of being slightly detached from reality.

pic: author’s