![]() i was recently in stockholm visiting my friend victoria (bergsman) from taken by trees and we were singing it in the flat and talked about recording it. in fact i'd love to do a cover version of it. the lyrics are quite simple and i guessĬorny but it's a great tune and the production is so good it really doesn't matter. his voice is like honey in the sun and it totally melts my heart. My favourite song at the moment is called 'one in a million' by steve miller. the harmonies in the chorus make my hairs stand up. ![]() it's a song about a sharecropper in alabama and it is so sad, beautiful and timeless that I can't help but listen more than once in a row. I have been obsessively listening and waking up to this tune by gillian welch called "annabelle". these grey locations held hands with her harmonium perfectly. until yesterday we have been on tour in scandinavia, russia, poland, austria, germany and czech. I have a nico button on my guitar strap and her excess eyeliner has been burning the dirge "janitor of lunacy" into my waking ears as of late, at least 20 times in the last week. Mp3: vinícius + bethania + toquinho – a tonga da mironga do kabuletê (live in buenos aires, 1971) It is like a beautiful sunrise – although I think that the lyrics are actually some sort of political commentary disguised as a Candomble/Afro-Brazilian curse – but whatever! And then you should just leave the CD on, and listen to the rest of the album while you have your coffee. The perfect song to start the day is “A Tonga Da Mironga Do Kabuleté” – the live recording from 1971 by Brazilian artists Vinícius + Bethania + Toquinho. sanity ‘from the point of no return’, personally. but, i’m listening to Steely Dan’s “Babylon Sisters”. often enough, it’s someone else’s sonic leak i’m getting addressed by. in all honesty, there is no ipod nor a single earplugging devicetron which i’d attend to. time frame where all you hear is yourself in a foggy blur, thinking if sleep is really all that important because the early few are storming off for work. and by morning, we’re looking at the 4 a.m. Often enough, it’s the early morning rush which gets me excited about shutting my eyes. The song in particular that gets me going in the morning is called "Schéma Corporel". however, Automelodi stuck out in my mind as being an authentic, genuine, NON-cheesy version of the 80s I wish I was a part of. It was a vinyl set of like 4 pieces or something. and so one day, he put on a Wierd Records compilation. He knows I have a soft spot for 80s/90s post punk/early electro, vaguely alternative music. I work at a record label ( Ba Da Bing Records) and my boss, Ben, is constantly getting new records in. Lately, I have been obsessed with this band from Montreal called Automelodi. how ironic considering my comments on be kind rewind) i’m sure that’s doing your artists a whole lot of good. ![]() (update: looks like the label’s really going all out to block anything that’s coming out these days. ![]() MOS DEF THE ECSTATIC FREE ZIP DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD(mp3 removed on label request, even though i received it as a free download from an contemporary label) just for you, though, i have a delicious preview with “auditorium”, taken off that album and produced by madlib, whose instrumental from his beat konductor funk tribute to indian music is gloriously sampled here. the show also got me listening to mos def’s rap catalogue, particularly his black star collaboration with talib kweli, and right now i can’t wait for his upcoming album the ecstatic to be released. the onscreen partnership between jack black and mos def is hilariously endearing (and sometimes annoying) in their efforts to “swede” or remake the films that black’s character jerry erased (“you’re magnetized!” being my favorite mos line, delivered in exasperated horror – check out 0:30 of the trailer). although it’s gotten rather mixed reviews from critics, i absolutely loved the show, especially with its take on “sweding” in taking swipes at today’s media industry’s paranoia at copyrights and bootlegging, and of course some signature gondry scenes which were magical as always. ![]() I’m really behind in my film viewing, but last night i finally got about to watching michel gondry’s be kind rewind. ![]()
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