at the record exchange today, kara and i made out like bandits with the cheap cds. she got, among other things, a 2-cd tom jones set, and, like, the only thing weirder than his duets (chaka khan?) are his covers ('spanish harlem'?). i got os mutantes, mad skillz rather poorly-named (just ask
ego trip) 'from where???', speedy j, aretha franklin's 'sweet sweet love' and 'la prochaine fois,' by neotropic. i'm excited about that last one. it's an audio cd and a cd-rom containing "an ambient road movie." one song even features one of my favorite singers, former
swans member
jarboe. and dig this
google translation of a german
review: The category "film music" is sufficiently notorious as stores for non-disturbing, atmospheric music beyond of Ambient, but Maslen really succeeds it to produce tendencies which do not force the pictures. Post office skirt avant-garde -, Singer/Songwriter and new approaches of music blur in their schwerbluetigem Urban Blues to graceful designed Pop without Trip and Hop. nearly too perfectly.
(Andreas's shrubs)