Plenty of crackers and good for the summer:
Lemon Jelly – Page One (lemonjelly.ky)
Felix Laband – Whistling in Tongues (Dark Days Exit)
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Sister (Who is This America?)
Acoustic Ladyland – Iggy (Last Chance Disco)
Jaga Jazzist – I Could Have Killed Him in the Sauna (The Stix)
Jimmy Smith – The Cat (The Cat)
Rodrigo y Gabriela [...]
I’m not sure I’ll ever be entirely happy with the appearance of something I’ve designed entirely.
In other news, Felix Laband’s music is genius.
I could see the flaws in this man. They were obvious. A pornographer of all kinds, paedophilia especially, there was nothing he hadn’t forced others to do. The business was profitable, mind, with more warped minds than would be expected purchasing his goods. He could afford a comfortable house, security, first class holidays and a [...]
Not posted any of these articles in quite a while, so here’s my favourite of all time. It’s from the Times some time in 2002. The manager’s decision just makes no sense whatsoever!
A worthy world record to hold. Apparently their punishment was quite harsh.
I was going to write something about friends in Portsmouth and Gloucester and how my last week was awesome, but then I ran most of the way home from the pub and my chest decided to hate me. THEN I turned on Masada’s Live in Sevilla and was completely caught out by the utter [...]
Lovely little collection of jazz quotes at photomatt.net .. some of my favourites being:
Playing bop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
(.. implying that you need to get rhythm down to score well?)
Those songs to me don’t exist, you know? “So What” or Kind of Blue, I’m not going to play that shit, [...]