Northern Lights GrooveAThong Playlist

Last night I did a DJ set with mate Ville, and we were rocking the place with funky soul and sizzling Latin grooves, plus a few oldies but goodies.

Northern Lights Playlist 14 / 7 / 2012

Set 1

Terry Callier - Love Theme From Sparticus
Junior - Mama Use To Say
Triste Janero - Maria
Abbey Lincoln - Africa
Ada Moore - The Devil Is A Woman
Count Basie & His Orchestra - Kilimanjaro
Lette Mbulu - What Is Wrong With Grooving’ ?
Charles Earland - Mom and Dad
B.O.M - No Rest For The Wicked
Nu Tropic - Moonlight
Nemoy - Fly Wheel
Osibisa - Wango Wango

Set 2

The O’Jays - I Love Music
Bobby Thurston - Check Out The Groove
Chic - My Forbidden Lover
Kate Bush - Running Up The Hill
Booker T and The MG’s - Slum Baby
Joyce Sim - Live The Love
Willie Bobo - Sunshine Superman
Orchestra Harlow - Abran Paso
Sinto - Man On The Beach
Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu - Mystery Spot
Tom Tom Club - Under The Boardwalk

Set 3

Veda Brown - Short Stopping
Marvin Gaye - That’s The Way Love Is
Willie Bobo - Evil Ways
Jimmy Cliff and Elvis Costello - Seven Day Wonder
Le Groupe X - Transfert 2002
Dennis Coffey - Scorpio
Dennis Coffey - Getting’ It On 75
Slick - Space Bass
Kid Creole and The Coconuts - Annie I’m Not Your Daddy
Chic - Good Times

Seaford Views

I woke up about nine this morning. Decided to go for a walk and snap a few photos on the camera, two in the town centre of Seaford and one of a pub. Well I must always include a pub photo.


St. Leonard's Church




Part of Seaford High Street looking towards main road



The Seven Sisters pub , just at the top end of GC's home. Very handy if you need a quick swift pint.


( and in other news )

Book 45 - Hermann Broch "The Unknown Quantity"

Hermann Broch "The Unknown Quantity" (Marlboro Press)





In his protagonist, Richard Hieck, Broch has presented us with a man influenced by the unsettling theories of their time (relativity and the quantum universe) and his search for meaning within the maddening cacophony of ideas, in which Broch presents us with an intriguing resolution to the problems of disorder. Hieck is a mathematician, an astronomer, a scientist - he is a lonely man who pursues knowledge down all of its blind alleys and dead ends purely for the sake of the pursuit, certain that there is no end, no ultimate goal. All of his relationships with the world are kept at an uneasy distance; from his half-demented mentor Doctor Weitprecht, his saintly younger sister Susanne (whose own response to the chaos of her times is to become a true "Bride of Christ"), his bohemian artist brother Otto - all are as equally inscrutable to Richard as are the millions of stars which pattern the night sky. And throughout his quest he remains haunted by the memory of his father, himself a scientist who succumbed to the madness of the universe; it would seem that Richard is doomed to an obscure life and unrepented death. Can he be saved?

Broch suggests that the missing element in the equation of Richard Hieck's life is simply love: "an awkward kiss released from all willing, released from Being, up borne by a wave of darkness." p.132 When Hieck accepts that there are no answers to be discerned from the infinity of stars above, when he allows himself to recognize the beauty that is next to him in the person of the devoted Ilse Nydhalm, when he understands that he cannot make himself desireless - only then is Richard Hieck saved from the world of pure knowledge. "[In the loneliness of the heart everything is absolute, in the heart there are no statistically approximate values, there the law is valid, and that is all that there is to say." p.176 . The Unknown Quantity is elusive for Richard, but it is also his salvation.

I recommend this novel as a fine introduction to Hermann Broch, who is at his most accessible in this, his fourth work (published in 1933). It presents many of the same themes which dominate Broch's works, from his "Sleepwalkers" trilogy down to "The Guiltless." A challenging writer and a satisfying read.