Awake At Night

One of those rare occasions i had to get up in the middle of the night for a pee. Now i canna get back to sleep, och! So thought i catch up with some comments , read blogs, etc.

I have been up for about an hour and it looks like i am still wide awake.  I did listen to some music throuh the headphones and am loving the Delfonics compilation.

So next i shall do some reading, as i usually fall asleep again afterwards.

A Soulful Morning

This morning i am in a soulful mood , so  from that compilation i picked up for a quid, here is The Delfonics with Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time).

Enjoy.

Today's Finds

Another sunny morning , although just clouded over for now.  Popped over to Faversham to get some food items for a salad. I then perused sone charity shops and found the following CD's for a quid each -

Everything Bit The Girl - Eden (Blanco Y Negro)
Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's ASdvice (PIAS Recordings)

Not so spectacular as finds but give them both a spin later. 

Bollywood Funk

Musical clips now. Bollywood funk is a style of out there music  that i have collected over the years and rarely play them in a DJ set, i think four times in the last two year,  ( as they are just too wierd) but mostly at home. So for your delictation and education, here is a track by Kalyanji &  Anandji  called Pyar Zingadi Hai.

( More under the cut )

That is all for now.

What i Have Listened To Today

After the musical journey through old Bollywood tracks  i have been listening to a mixed bag of CD's this aftenoon and erly evening kicking iff with a classic album by Everything But The Girl, "Eden".

It came out in 1985 during a period that bossa nova and jazz were beginiing to be popular again, and you certainly hear the influence of jazz on many of the tracks on the album with one track just being an instrumental that would not look out of  place on a MIles Davis album. A classic album  re-discovered.

The poetry of Sir John Betjeman being set to music by Jim Parker was a revelation, and extraordinary. Fits so well together on the album "Banana Blush", the first of four such collaborations between Jim and John. Very British music in all its better glories.

Now Ella Fitzgerald could turn most songs into personal statements and she was an excellent scat singer. The CD "Classic Ella Fitzgerald" collects a number of her best known jazz songs. Sixteen classic tracks including a great version of Makin' Whoopie.

The Delfonics were one of the earliest Philadelphia soul grous to hit it big, before the O'Jyas and others. The CD "The Definitive Collection" collects all their hits as well as less known tracks. They defined that sweet soul music that even Quentin Tarantino included one of their greatest songs on the Jackie Brown soundtrack.

Tomorrow a day in Sittingbourne.