Found Wallet

The gods must be smiling. The wallet has been found.I phoned the bus company this morning , and yes, somebody,did find it and handed it in. I just picked up from the Sherrness bus depot - all intact, cards and money.

I brethed a mighty sigh of relief.
Luckily i had a free train ride to get here (Sheerness that is).

Books Found Yesterday

These are the books bought from my one hour charity shop observation from yesterday in Ashford.

Out and About

Going to Canterbury ;later to do a couple, of phone shop visits and then Strood for an after five supermarket visit.

Weather is sunny if blustery. I am feeling good so hopefully the day will stay that way. Wallet tightly bound in a deeper trouser pocket which has a zip. I am wearing a different trouser today - just in case.

Before i do that i need to pop out and get some ,milk for my coffee.

Three Soul Tunes

This morning i was listening to Desert Island Discs on Radio 4.The author Marian Keyes was being interviewed and asked to select her eight discs. Her first one was this track from Solange --i thought a very good choice indeed.

Solange - Cranes In The Sky

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hl8tr

Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Marian Keyes.

"Her twelve novels to date have sold 35 million copies and are published in 33 languages. Some of her novels have been adapted for the screen. She has also published three volumes of journalism.

Marian was born the eldest of five children in Ireland in 1963. While she was academically successful at school, she says she wasn't taught to think for herself, which left her ill prepared for university where she studied law.

After completing her degree, but failing to get apprenticed to a law firm in Dublin, she moved to London. She spent her twenties working as a waitress, and began drinking heavily. She went into rehab for her alcoholism when she was 30.

Her fortunes changed once she was sober: she sent some short stories she had written the previous year off to a publisher and had her debut novel published in 1995.

Marian has described each of her books as "a comedy about something serious" and says they are a reflection of who she is:
"I'm very bleak, really melancholic. But I've always used humour as a survival mechanism. I write for me and I need to feel hopeful about the human condition. So no way I'm going to write a downbeat ending. And it isn't entirely ludicrous to suggest that sometimes things might work out for the best." She says that Solange's album from which the track is taken is a "Black Lives Matter" one and is an angry album.A righteous anger .. "

The other great track she chosen was this -

Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Ow

The other great tune she cj=hose was this one -


Earth, Wind & Fire - September

Excellent choices in my opinion.

David Axelrod - A Tribute

Composer and music producer David Axelrod passed away this year in February so here is some of hos music - a tribute in a sense.




The American composer and producer, sampled by DJ Shadow, J Dilla, Madlib and many more, has died

Born in 1933 in Los Angeles, David Axelrod was an American drummer, producer and composer. He started his musical career in the latter part of the 1950s, producing albums such as jazz musician Harold Land's The Fox. In 1963 he joined Capitol Records working as producer and A&R and in 1968 wrote Mass in F Minor and Release Of An Oath for The Electric Prunes. Around that time, Axelrod started producing solo works, and his first two releases Song Of Innocence (1968) and Songs Of Experience (1969) formed a two-part homage to William Blake. Musician and Wire contributor Kirk Degiorgio, writing in his Hall Of Fame list of his most influential records, described his work as “sparse and moody – heavily reverberated strings mysteriously come and go – and the funky, fatback drumming gives it impetus. Axelrod is one of those great artists who creates music that manages to defy any fixed genre – it straddles rock, classical, jazz and funk.”

As Degiorgio notes, Axelrod's late 60s work was sampled heavily in many hiphop tracks, including by J Dilla, DJ Shadow, Quasimoto, Mos Def and Lil Wayne, who sampled "Holy Thursday" in his track “Mr Carter”.

David Axelrod - Holy Thursday

( More here )

Enjoy.

Friday Musical Selection - Mixed Bag

Another musical feast -

Species Of Fishes - Crash Recovery

The guys who made this fine piece of electronica ...

Species Of Fishes’ Trip Trap, now regarded as a fine example of 1990s Russian idiosyncratic electronica. The duo, Igor Kolyadnii and Vitaly Stern, also have an album of new music scheduled for late 2017.


( More music here )

Enjoy.

Good Night

Hope you have a good night too.