Thursday Music Selection - Mixed Bag

Another cross genre selection of music -

Tom Waits - Alice

( More music here )

Enjoy.

Listening To Prince

This morning i have spent listening to the deluxe reissue of "Purple Rain" which includes tracks that for some Prince left of the album, and yet are brilliant and as funky as hell. "The Dance Electric" in its twelve minute groove is such a track,tight and kicks ass! The 32 page booklet is choc full of info and pics and a track by track blow of the album. Here Wendy says of "I Would Die 4U" .... "if you listen carefully to the lyrics now after his death, it's almost unspeakable,the heartache and grace you feel coming from him."

Prince-I Would Die 4 U (darling if you want me to remix)

Yep, today is one of relaxing and listening to music, and some reading of course.

New Laptop Case and Other Stuff

The Marisa Mote CD arrived today as well as the Tropicalia compilation on Soul Jazz Records.

Neighbour Connor gave me a whisky glass a few days ago so i had to get some bourbon for it. Playing the blues now.




I also found a new laptop case for three quid from a charity shop as my old one was getting tatty and starting to split at the bottom.





Tomorrow i will be in Canterbury for the day.

Friday Musical Selection - The Full Monte !

So me deerios it is time for some music - and today it is an appreciation of the Brazilian singer Marisa Monte.


Marisa Monte - Give Me Love

This CD is co-produced by her and Arto Lindsay.



( More Monte here )

Enjoy.

Spotlight on Arto Lindsay

Arto Lindsay has been around or awhile so here are some of his musical offerings -

Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer.He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s.

He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey.

Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he spent many years in Brazil with his missionary parents and came of age during the influential Tropicália movement of Brazilian culture, which included musicians Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil, as well as the visual artists Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Antonio Dias. This time of cultural experimentation and artistic cross-pollination made an enduring impact on the young Lindsay.


DNA - You & You

The Lounge Lizards - Bob The Bob

( More Lindsay music )

Enjoy.