July 23, 2010 at 10:14 pm
‘Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
~Joaquin Miller, Ina
- Cerati / Melero -Cozumel
Colores Santos (1992)
- Dj Krush-Big City Lover
Krush (Shadow Records, 1994)
- Thom Yorke-Black Swan
The Eraser (XL, 2006)
- Modeselektor-Edgar
Happy Birthday! (BPitch Control, 2007)
- Motor City Drum Ensemble-Raw Cuts # 6
Raw Cuts Vol.1 (Timothy Really, 2009)
- Fudge Fingas-It’s about time
Prime Numbers 3 (Prime Numbers, 2010
- Outkast-Prototype
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (La Face, 2003)
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done
This Midnight Tempo is a jump to beats more rythmical but no in another tune, all is arund the midnight.
It’s bed time with the right mood.
June 24, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Photo: moS.nap
It wasn’t until we were well past the middle of it that we realized the old dull pain, whose stitched wrists and clammy fingers, far from being subverted, had only slipped underneath us, freshly scrubbed.
Mirrors and shop windows returned our faces to us, replete with the tight lips and the eyes that remained eyes and not the doorways we had hoped for.
His wounds healed, the skin a bit thicker than before, scars like train tracks on his arms and on his body underneath his shirt.
Richard Siken, Little Beast.
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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 10, 2010 at 2:49 am
A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability. We are constantly re-imagining its reality: to distinguish all these images would be to describe the soul of the house; it would mean developing a veritable psychology of the house… They give us back areas of being, houses in which the human being’s certainty of being is concentrated, and we have the impression that, by living in such images as these, in images that are as stabilizing as these are, we could start a new life, a life that would be our own, that would belong to us in our own very depths. - Gaston Bachelard, “The Poetics of Space”, pg. 17
1. Deodato - Univac loves you (Very Together, 1976)
2. Koushik - Be with you (Out my Window, 2008)
3. Andras Fox - Touchy feat. Amenta (Unreleased)
4. Andres - A new beginning / You can’t hide (Mahoghani Music, 2010)
5. Andras Fox - Body & Soul (Unreleased)
6. Ron Basejam - Into my Life (Brownswood Bubblers Five, 2010)
7. Hanna - Cottage (Sound Signature, 2005)
A long overdue return to the Motel. So much has happened, from the incredible experiences of The Red Bull Music Academy, a return home, changes in my own life, and finding a new rhythm and routine.
Like a child seeking stability in an image of a house, I’m finding stability in the regular heartbeat of an 808 kick drum. All of these songs explore a tension between a evolving fluid element and a regular organizing structure of drum programming. They are what I am drawn to playing right now - slow, swung, dilapidated house.
pic: author’s (taken in torokbalint, hungary)
March 22, 2010 at 8:02 pm
I have a friend in the tire business in Vladivostok. Alexei Gorbunov is 26, bearded, and not much of a dancer, and when we first met in the bar of the M.V. Rus car ferry in the middle of the Sea of Japan, he was drunk out of his mind. He was not alone. The dance floor was filled with gyrating car traders and scrap metal dealers and a troupe from Moscow’s Bolshoi Circus, which was taking the slow boat home after a tour in Japan. There were a few foreigners on board—a Finnish girl running from a boyfriend in Tokyo, a Japanese family about to take the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany, a Serbian motorbiker on his way back overland to Belgrade—but the vibe and pounding techno were perfectly Russian. The crowd drank vodka. The acrobats threw backflips. - 6,000 Miles to Moscow
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” East-West. No.1. Lake Baikal. ”
01. Radio Citizen - Dust
Berlin Serengeti (Ubiquity, 2006)
02. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - The homeless wanderer
Ethiopiques, Vol. 21: Ethiopia Song (Buda Musique, 2006)
03. Matmos - Memento Mori
A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure (2001)
04. Skalpel - Theme From Behind the Curtain
Skalpel (2004)
05. Radio Citizen - Nightingale
Berlin Serengeti (Ubiquity, 2006)
06. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - Ballad of the spirits
Ethiopiques, Vol. 21: Ethiopia Song (Buda Musique, 2006)
07. Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro - Undelivered Letter
Tradition In Transition (Tru Thoughts, 2009)
08. Quantic - Not So Blue
Apricot Morning (Tru Thoughts, 2002)
note: I am in weird mood. One of those late winter/almost spring blues. So this is a complete self indulgence list, the rhythm is a little off, melody is sweet, but in very strange mode, etc. It is based on Maryam Guèbrou work, ethiopian blues. I also tried to do east meet west list. If there is anything, imagine a song for riding highspeed train across the siberian plain at 250kph. It’s so fast, everything floats except distance grand landscape and background chatter. Maybe little drink and friendly conversation with stranger about odd life circumstances and meeting on trans siberian train. The list suppose to be a little futuristic, but ends up very traditional, the melody part is very lovely. I might make another attempt with this theme. Yes I know, rock and punk are completely neglected. but what can i say. anyway njoy.
image: remuz [Jack The Ripper]
March 10, 2010 at 1:18 am
When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.
- Augusto Monterroso.
- Electroid 2000- Moogsters Revenge
A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol. 2 (Platipus, 2008)
- Johnny Jones & The King Casuals - Purple Haze
Come Get It I Got It (13 Amp Recordings, 2002)
- Czeslaw Nieman - Z Listu Do M
Katharsis (Polskie Nagrania Musa, 1975)
- San Ui Lim - Frustration
Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word (Delay 68 Records, 2005)
- Música Dispersa- Cefalea
Folk Is NoT A Four Letter Word (Delay 68 Records, 2005)
- The Gaslamp Killer - Anything Worse
My Troubled Mind (Brain feeder, 2009)
- Bo Diddley - Elephant Man
The Black Gladiator (Cheker, 1970)
- Titán-Chemix
Titán (Nuevos Ricos, 2005)
Hi everybody! It’s been a long time since my last post. Spent all December looking through several “best of” lists but couldn’t find anything that caught my attention. It wasn’t until early January that I bumped against some amazing psychedelic compilations that my love for music was overhauled. These is a tiny selection of highlights from these compilations, as well as a song from The Gaslamp Killer, a gem of experimental hip hop from LA. Hope you enjoy them.
Image: Here
