Tunes to start your day -

Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis - To The Moon



Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis team up in a unique album of poetry and music, interpreting the works of Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and many more...

Mary Lou Williams - Rosa Mae



Pete La Roca - Lazy Afternoon





ENJOY

Time for some music wired and groovy and them some -

Velvet Underground - New Age



Patti Smith - Piss Factory



Vanessa Daou / Erica Jong - Smoke



Autechre - N Cur



Autechre - Metaz form8



Gabriel Faure - Pavanne



Enjoy

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.