Post Midnight Music from Jazzy D #2

More nocturnal stuff - a feast of world music.

Natasha Atlas - Maktub

Oumou Sangare - Iyo Djeli

Nitin Sawhney - Serpents

Sheila Chandra - Song to the Siren

Another great version alongside This Mortal Coil of the Tim Buckley song.

Huun Huur Tu - Kongurei

Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo - Ancestors Call

Enjoy.

R.I.P. Umberto Eco

A couple of recent literary deaths this week, the first being Harper Lee, and my particular favourite Umberto Eco, who wrote the splendid "The Name of The Rose". I have a couple of his books, both of which i  need to read. I have already read that famous novel which became a film and "Foucault's Pendulum" , and thus , will have to start reading these two.





http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35620368

Birthday Greetings

Happy birthday to xiphias. May you have a great day.

Saturday Music Selection - World Music

More music from albums i have loved over the years  -

( Music here )

Let The Right One In

Last night i finally got round to watching the DVD of Let The Right One In, a darkly strange Swedish vampire horror film.

The film tells the story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who develops a friendship with a vampire child in Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s. Alfredson, unconcerned with the horror and vampire conventions, decided to tone down many elements of the novel and focus primarily on the relationship between the two main characters in the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The movie was very enjoyable.