July 7, 2010 at 1:09 am
Photo: Nickolas Muray via GEH.
Allez donc vous faire bronzer
Sur la plage, sur la plage.
An all-weekend getaway to the beach. A subtle and clumsy dance on the pool. I love this Nickolas Muray photograph. I had no idea they had such bright, colourful photographs in 1932. I’d love to lie and tell you I created this playlist inspired by it. Maybe I will.
I created this playlist inspired by today’s photograph. Manouche jazz, soul funk, rare groove… it’s a nice, vibrant soundset for warm summer days. It might just scare the rain away.
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.
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
March 7, 2010 at 10:09 pm
How beautiful the sun is on warm evenings! How deep space is! How powerful is the heart! Bending over you, queen of adored ones, I thought I breathed the perfume of your blood. How beautiful the sun is on warm evenings!
Night deepened like a wall, and my eyes in the darkness sensed your eyes, and I drank your breath, O sweetness! O poison! And your feet slumbered in my brotherly hands. Night deepened like a wall.
I know the art of evoking happy moments, and live again my past curled up in your lap. For what is the good of seeking your languorous beauty elsewhere than in your dear body and in your so gentle heart? I know the art of evoking happy moments. - The Balcony. Charles Baudelaire, ca. 1856. trans. Elaine Marks (1962).
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” Map of undiscovered Land. ”
01. Joanna Newsom - ‘81
Have One On Me (Drag City, 2010)
02. Be Good Tanyas - the coo coo bird
Blue Horse (Nettwerk Records, 2001)
03. Charlie Patton - Poor Me
Founder of the Delta Blues (Yazoo, 1969)
04. Liu Shui - Flowing Streams
Voyager Golden Record (NASA, 1977)
05. 5′nizza - Солдат (Soldat)
Pyatnitsa (2003)
06. The Go Find - Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight
Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight (Morr Music, 2010)
note: A short evening list. The songs seem innocent and ordinary, but turn out to be more than that. It’s like hearing an old friend telling odd personal revelation in random evening. Past and present are all in one spot, image and stories simply float out in the evening air. Anyway the list set flow is a little hurried, so maybe the songs contrast will act as a consolation. I am in scattered mood. They are a piece by Newsom, an applachian country, pre war blues, NASA audio file, ukrainian duo and an indie for closing. It’s a lose evening theme with blues.
see also: Voyager Golden Record
image: Abbey Lee Kershaw for Numero#110 by Greg Kade
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January 30, 2010 at 3:59 am
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“Tierra Azul”
01. Cannonball Adderley - Country Preacher
Cannonball Adderley: The Capitol Years (1991)
02. Sébastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
La Ritournelle (Lucky Number, 2005)
03. Sade - By Your Side (Neptunes remix)
By Your Side (2001)
04. Vibrasphere - Tierra Azul
Selected Downbeats Vol. 2 (Cloud 99 Music, 2009)
05. Daedelus - Experience
Invention (Plug Research, 2002)
06. Dj Distance and Crazy D - Worries Again
Mary Anne Hobbs Presents The Warrior Dubz (Planet Mu, 2006)
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“The Shimmering Hour”
07. Luke Vibert - Electrophy
We Hear You (Planet Mu, 2009)
08. wisp - Flat Rock
The Shimmering Hour (Rephlex, 2009)
09. Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell - Second Sight
Radioaxiom - A Dub Transmission (Palm Pictures, 2001)
10. Four Tet - Love Cry
There Is Love In You (Domino, 2010)
11. Boxcutter - Sidetrak
Arecibo Message (Planet Mu, 2009)
12. Andras Fox - loveisgone
Far Beyond Zebra / Andras Fox (2010)
13. Felix Stone - Essentials (Original Mix)
Evolved Breaks (Morphosis Records, 2009)
14. airtone - sometimes
airtone @ ccMixter (2009)
note:
image: Camilla d’Errico’s “Royal Egg Watcher”
September 30, 2009 at 9:26 am
…. She dives into the lake and comes up with her head covered in muck and great kelpy strands of green pond slime - and beaming in a way that practically radiates out over the face of the lake and the desert. She has surfaced euphoric -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
-Pulling her long strands of slime-slithering hair outward with her hands and grokking and freaking over it -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
-The beads of water on her slime strands are like diamonds to her, and everybody feels her feeling at once, even Sandy -
‘Ooooooh! It sparkles!’
Tom Wolfe, ‘The Electric Kool-aid Acid test’, pg. 72
1. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - We Almost Lost Detroit
‘Bridges’ LP, 1977
2. Theo Parrish - Summertime is Here
‘Parallel Dimensions’, Sound Signature records, 2001
3. yU - Fine
‘Before Taxes’, 2008
4. Moodymann - Don’t you want my love
‘Forevernevermore’, Peacefrog, 2000
5. Andres (feat. Tracy Vox & KDJ) - Sing About it
‘Andres II’ Mahoghani Music, 2009
6. Andras Fox - Gettin’ into You
unreleased
7. Trus’me - War
‘Working Nights’, Prime Numbers, 2008
This list reflects what consistently sits in my record crate. A warm up set of sorts, the list contains slow grooves, loops and samples. Gil Scott said that he could always count on Lady Day and John Coltrane to wash his troubles away. As for me, I can always count on Moody and Theo.
pic: authors - thanks to Gabby Santos, a most excellent musician & poser, and Morgan, whose shoot I piggybacked on.
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