Book Me A Fonal Tampere

Noticed over the weekend that Resident now has quite a small selection of the Fonal label stuff from the Finnish underground courtesy of Sami,and the lovely people at Resident gave me a Fonal sampler Cd which is absolutely wondeerful. Features many of the acts on the label as well as unreleased tracks by the likes of Islaja,Kemialliset Ystävät,Es,Paavoharju,Killa,Risto,Shogun Kunitaki and TV Resttori. Album of the week for me. It's nice to see they have caught up with the lable i have been buying from since last year.

Bought a book in The Brighton Books sale , reduced from £8 to £2 - "Unlocking The Engl;ish Language" by Robert Burchfield (Faber and Faber 1989).


Listened to some discussion on Radio 4 last night and fell asleep so i missed the end of it. At least with the internet quite a few programs from the Beeb can be listened to again.
Podcasts are the next big though but i have yet to get into that.

Just realised i haven't done the ubiquitous 7 of the week so again it will be a mixture of old and new as i certainly haven't purchased 7 new things to listen last week. Fonal will be there somewhere in the seven again though. So here we go-

1/ Various Artists "Summer And Smiles From finland" (Fonal CD) - the whole album.
2/ Paitsi - Islaja "Merite" CD (Fonal)
3/ Favourite Sweater - Y Pants "New York Noise vol.2" (SoulJazz CD)
4/ Arundel - Papa M "Live From A Shark Cage" (Domino CD)
5/ All Of Us - Pat Metheney and Ornette Coleman "Song X" (Nonesuch Reissue CD)
6/ String Quartet - Morton Feldman (Naxos CD)
7/ Down South Blues - Dock Boggs "Old-Time Music From South-West Virginia" CD

Well that's the list for another week.