Karen Dalton makes everything feel right… Summerville, Colorado, 1970. From Karen Dalton’s “Cotton Eyed Joe” double CD & DVD U.S. release on Delmore Recordings.
There’s a really interesting discussion thread about the origins of this song HERE.
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nina simone – live at montreux – 1976, 1987 and 1990
Just incredible. I wish I could have seen her perform, just once.
Tracklisting:
1976
1. Little Girl Blue
2. Backlash Blues
3. Be My Husband
4. I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to be Free)
5. Stars / Feelings
6. African Mailman
1987
7. Someone to Watch Over Me
8. My Baby Just Cares For Me
1990
9. I Loves You Porgy
10. Liberian Calypso
11. Four Women / Mississippi Goddam
12. Ne Me Quitte Pas (Don’t Leave Me)
rainy day – rainy day (full album, 1984)
The Paisley Underground scene of L.A. bands of the 1980s — of which David Roback’s bands Rain Parade, Clay Allison, Opal, and Mazzy Star were a part — was in part inspired by 1960s rock/psychedelia. This Rainy Day album was David’s project. It contains covers of nine of his favourite songs from the 1960s, and one from the 1970s (“Holocaust”). He enlisted musicians and singers from a variety of Paisley Underground bands to collaborate on the album.
Tracklisting
A1 – “I’ll Keep It With Mine” (Bob Dylan)
Guitar, Tambourine, Vocals – David Roback; Violin – Will Glenn; Bass – Michael Quercio; Lead Vocals – Susanna Hoffs
A2 – “John Riley” (B. Gibson, R. Neff. A folk song covered by The Byrds in 1966)
Drums – Dennis Duck; Guitar [Acoustic 12-string] – Matthew Piucci; Guitar [Electric 12-string], Vocals – David Roback; Violin, Vocals – Will Glenn; Lead Vocals, Bass – Michael Quercio
A3 – “Flying On The Ground Is Wrong” (Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield)
Guitar – David Roback; Lead and Background Vocals – Kendra Smith; Background Vocals – Susanna Hoffs
A4 – “Sloop John B.” (Traditional. The Beach Boys had a 1966 hit with their arrangement)
Drums – Dennis Duck; Guitar, Congas – David Roback; Keyboards – Ethan James; Lead Vocals, Bass, Percussion – Michael Quercio
A5 – Soon Be Home (Pete Townshend/The Who)
Bass, Drums – Michael Quercio; Tambourine – “Spock”; Background Vocals – Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson; Lead Vocals, Guitar – David Roback
B1 – “Holocaust” (Alex Chilton/Big Star)
Cello, Violin – Will Glenn; Guitar – David Roback; Piano – Steven Roback; Piano [Backwards] – Ethan James; Vocals – Kendra Smith
B2 – “On The Way Home” (Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield)
Vocals, Guitar – David Roback
B3 – “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (Lou Reed/Velvet Underground)
Guitar, Bass, Tambourine – David Roback; Lead and Background Vocals – Kendra Smith; Lead Vocals, Guitar – Susanna Hoffs
B4 – “Rainy Day, Dream Away” (Jimi Hendrix)
Bass, Keyboards – Ethan James; Drums – Dennis Duck; Guitar – Karl Precoda; Congas – David Roback; Lead Vocals – Michael Quercio Continue reading
martha argerich plays ravel – jeux d’eau
Originally telecast on 31 July,1977.
wow and sputter 1.0
lou reed – i love you
john mccormack – angels guard thee
Victrola record (Canadian Berliner) 88483 [275]. “Berceuse de Jocelyn” (“Angels Guard Thee”), written by Benjamin Godard. John McCormack – tenor, Fritz Kreisler – violin, Vincent O’Brien – pianoforte. First issued circa late 1914.
Beneath the quivering leaves, where shelter comes at last,
All sadness sinks to rest, or glides into the past.
Her sweet eyes prismed now in their soft silken bowers,
Oh my love, calm she sleeps beneath the trembling stars.
Awake not yet from thy repose,
A fair dream spirit hovers near thee,
Weaving a web of gold and rose,
Through dreamland’s happy isles to bear thee.
Sleep, love, it is not yet the dawn,
Angels guard thee, sweet love, till morn.
Far from the noisy throng, by song birds lulled to rest,
Where rock the branches high by breezes soft caress’d;
Softly the days go on, by sorrow all unharm’d,
Thus may life be to thee a sweet existence charm’d.
Ah! wake not yet from thy repose,
A fair dream spirit hovers near thee,
Weaving a web of gold and rose,
Through dreamland’s happy isles to bear thee!
Sleep, love, it is not yet the dawn,
Angels guard thee, sweet love, til morn!
yapoos – 肉屋のように (like a butcher)
The wonderful Jun Togawa, Japan’s Bjork-before-there-was-Bjork (although comparisons can be reductive, she’s cut from similar revolutionary woman cloth), with her band Yapoos, off their 1987 album, ヤプーズ計画 (Yapoos Plan). And this video is incredible.
willy mason – it’s a hard hand to hold
I saw this guy live at the Baxter Theatre last night. He is wonderful.
Willy Mason live at The Band Room in Farndale, North Yorkshire, UK, 3 February 2007.
happy/it’s a wonderful life mashup
bull moose jackson – big ten inch
major lance – um um um um um um
Another track written by the brilliant Curtis Mayfield (who was just 20 at the time) and released as a single on Okeh in December 1963.
the orlons – mama didn’t lie
Penned by Curtis Mayfield, from the group’s near-flawless album, Not Me (Cameo, 1963).
songs of mystery and terror
A violently schizo, thrown-together bunch of tracks I played at a gig called “Songs of Mystery & Terror” on 23 April 2014 at Casa Nostra in Sea Point, Cape Town.
kurt cobain interview (seattle, 1993)
Kurt in 1993, very lucidly, on a bunch of stuff including misanthropy, sexism, advocacy, collecting, and his fascination with anatomy. Living in South Africa, I never saw any interviews with him back then and, watching this today, it struck me that I hadn’t expected him to be this honestly unaffected and humble. This interview happened only a little over half a year before his suicide in April 1994.
though i sang in my chains like the sea
“The world is helpless against a man who sings in his misery.”
— Ernesto Sabato
sviatoslav richter plays liszt’s transcendental études
A selection of my favourites from Liszt’s Transcendental series, recorded in Prague on June 10, 1956 and broadcast on Czech Radio.
Tracklisting with times:
00:00 – Étude No. 1 (Preludio)
00:58 – Étude No. 2 (untitled – Molto vivace)
02:52 – Étude No. 3 (Paysage)
08:29 – Étude No. 5 (Feux Follets)
12:03 – Étude No. 11 (Harmonies du Soir)
Heartbreaker Franz Liszt circa 1860 (Franz Hanfstaengl/Wikimedia)
“On a snowy day in Berlin, two days after Christmas 1841, Franz Liszt strode out onto the stage at the Berliner Singakademie concert hall. He sat at his grand piano in profile, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. He was 30 years old, at the height of his ability, and he was about to unleash a mania—a mania not in the sense of “Beatlemania”, or any of the other relatively mild musical obsessions, but a mania viewed as a truly contagious, dangerous medical condition that would affect women in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, and elsewhere.
“Using his whole body—his undulating eyebrows, his wild arms, even his swaying hips—Liszt dove into Händel’s “Fugue in E minor” with vigor and unfettered confidence, keeping perfect tempo and playing entirely from memory. It was the start of the phenomenon later called “Lisztomania,” and the women in the audience went mad.”
Read THIS ARTICLE on the romantic power of music like Liszt’s…
from the live jimi presley days, early ’90s
jane’s addiction – jane says
Off Nothing’s Shocking (1988).
guffaw
Bushfire Festival is something everyone from age 3 to 90 should experience. The House of Fire is just unbeatable as a venue, and acts fly in from all over the globe … Saw great bands from Japan, Columbia, France …
angel olsen – stars
This is one of those songs I have tried to write myself… and then I hear somebody else already has it nailed so articulately. Sucks. In the best way possible.
I think you’d like to see me lose my mind
You treat me like a child; I’m angry, blind
I feel so much at once that I could scream
I wish I had the voice of everything
I wish I had the voice of everything
To scream the animals, to scream the earth
To scream the stars out of our universe
To scream it all back into nothingness
To scream the feeling ’til there’s nothing left
To scream the feeling ’til there’s nothing left
I’ll close my eyes
I’ll close my eyes and try to leave the world
Well you could change my mind with just a smile
And just before I turn to leave I think
I could use the thoughts you’ve given me
Oh I could use the thoughts you’ve given me
To sing the animals, to sing the earth
To sing the stars into a universe
To sing it all back into something new
To sing for life, or myself and maybe you
Wish I had the voice of everything, sometimes
Wish I had the voice of everything
m.i.a. – double bubble trouble
Shampoo, drones and 3D printed guns…
lizzy mercier descloux – aya mood
i fucking love this!!!
sudden infant – girl
The brand new video from the brand new album, Wölfli’s Nightmare (2014, Voodoo Rhythm Records). Produced by the über-distinguished Roli Mosimann, this is the first release from Sudden Infant as a trio:
Joke Lanz: vocals, electronics
Christian Weber: bass
Alexandre Babel: drums
serge gainsbourg – le chanson de prévert
Oh how I want you to remember,
this song was yours,
it was your favourite, I think
Written by Prévert and Kosma.
And each time “Fallen Leaves”
brings back my memories of you,
day after day
the fallen loves
are never done dying.
I abandon myself to other’s arms, of course
but their song is dull
and I grow ever more indifferent,
there is no helping it.
Because each time “Fallen Leaves”
brings back my memories of you,
day after day
the fallen loves
are never done dying.
Is it ever possible to know
the beginning or the end of indifference?
May fall pass, may winter come,
and may Prévert’s song,
this song,
“Fallen Leaves“,
vanish from my memories,
and on that day
my fallen loves
will be done dying.
And on that day,
my fallen loves
will be done dying.
roky erickson – kafka
“While they’re still alive, people can become ghosts.”
— Haruki Murakami, from Kafka on the Shore.
vice v – mr president
“Mr President” is the controversial first single released on Long Talk 2 Freedom. It is a work of hip-hop protest literature which deals with the failed presidency of Jacob Zuma. The work remixes, and was inspired by, Tunisian rapper El-general’s classic, “Rayes lebled”, which became the theme song of the Tunisian revolution which brought Tunisian Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali down in 2011.
Written, produced, mixed and mastered by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh aka Vice V
Recorded by Tiger.X
Speeches referenced:
T. Lekota, “Response to the State of the Nation Address”, February, 2013.
J. Malema, “They Shot us Behind the Mountain: Address on the First Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre”, August, 2013.
being present: patric thormann, mandla mlangeni & niklas zimmer live
Happening this Wednesday, 7 May 2014, at 20h00 at Bolo’bolo, 76 Lower Main Rd, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa:
Dear friends,
We’re incredibly excited to invite you to a special edition of our new Eclecticity sessions – a monthly experimental music evening at bolo’bolo.
This Wednesday we’re hosting an improv set by three musicians who need no introduction: Patric Thormann (Sweden) on double bass, Mandla Mlangeni (SA) on trumpet and Niklas Zimmer (Germany / SA) on drums.
Those of you who were lucky enough to attend the recent Edge of Wrong festival know what to expect from Patric and Niklas, and Mandla should be familiar to everyone who has followed the Cape Town music scene over the last few years. We’re lucky to be hosting three such talented performers and we hope to see lots of you there!
NB: The event is totally, 100% free. We have vegan food and drinks on sale and you may bring your own snacks and drinks as long as you respect the alcohol-free and vegan ethos of our space :-)
pj harvey – working for the man (live, 1995)
“Working For The Man” and “Goodnight”, performed live on The White Room, 1995. Hot.
laurie anderson – the dream before (for walter benjamin)
” A Paul Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; his wings are caught in it with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.”
— Walter Benjamin, 1940
Paul Klee – Angelus Novus (1920)
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