Police and Thieves

Kano - Fightin' The Nation (from London Town)

Music to match the weather

Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

I don't expect too much from the upcoming album, but the fact they keep recording new ones allows me to think I'm still not too old.

The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

Villagers - I Saw The Dead

I Saw The Dead by DominoRecordCo

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Another Sunday

Just another one marvellous day in London:



An amazing musical instrument - it sounds like an ensemble while all the musician does is tapping it. I don't know if the video produces effect but our live impression was great:



Another interesting thing about hang (that's how it's called) is that it was invented in 2000 only though it totally looks like the ancient Oriental instrument.

Neighbourhood

A local event has gathered different performers last night, but all of them living nearby in a walking distance from the club:







That's what I really love here - nothing is heavily centralized. You can always find something interesting literally just round the corner.

Vltava - Bedrich Smetana

Note how the main theme brightens up from that uneasy gloom at 10:40.

Upd. direct file link to avoid imeem track length limitation.

It is stifling today

Suddenly I realized that music I have been listening to for last several months can be described best as “Tom & Jerry OST”.

Also I've got an another useless declaration – once you are ready to accept connotations you won’t suffer from the lack of them regardless of the subject chosen. See, all the humans characters are shown in “T & J” series with their heads hidden by the screen upper border. And I can hardly remember faces of the musicians too.

Friday Nite

Today was I was lucky enough to finish with some fussy job processes and hope they won’t bother me next week. Cheers!

(They Call It) Stormy Monday - Lou Rawls & Les McCann Ltd

Andrew Hill - Sept

This tune is definitely my favourite of the week, long and complex. The only disadvantage is that it must be listened to carefully, not while being busy with something. But if you have a dozen minutes to spare you can be lucky to catch how the melody themes are introduced first, then become decomposed to the simple fragments which start to mix up to almost random but still stylish vortex - and the final assembly where all the parts are put back to their place in the tune, more vivid then in the timid beginning. Stunning.

Sept - Andrew Hill

Let’s start

Some time ago I had discovered a special way to listen to the music that makes even the tracks you are totally pestered with sound as new and unfamiliar ones. The trick is to concentrate on the bass layer of the melody and to put it to the scene with a little mental effort while sending the main theme to the background.

To understand the effect, recall the feeling that strikes when a 3D picture appears from a senseless Magic Eye pattern. It takes time to switch but suddenly your perception changes and you become perceptive to the details that you skipped before thoughtlessly. In the same moment features that attracted your attention only a second ago are gone to the shady periphery.

It is strangely curious to discover a rich vivid bass theme in the melody that you considered to be dull and ordinary or nothing but a monotonous rhythm in your former favourite tune.

From now on, I check for this false bottom in every new melody I hear. For the melody to have a decent bass is like having good manners for people. Casual encounters strangers won’t have a chance to rate them typically, but those who you are interested in will.