Saturday music
Lau
Guitar and vocals, accordion and piano, fiddle. Scottish.
They seem to pick up folk-nerd awards for fun. Lightweights and Gentlemen is more as expected, a mix of vocal and
instrumental songs, slow ballads and more upbeat numbers. Race the Loser is less typical. There’s a wider range of
instruments, the slower songs have a darker feel to them, and I think it’s the
stronger of the two albums I’ve listened to.
Without a Net is
almost eighty minutes of spontaneous, improvised, live jazz. I had the album on
my earphones while giving the dogs their evening walk. The late, low sun, the
woods, and music from a band featuring a man described as the greatest living
exponent of improvisation.
Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Morning walk album: From
Gagarin’s Point of View is a piano trio set that goes beyond jazz. There’s
songs, hooks, every piece takes off and flies.
Nas
Illmatic is
absolutely flawless. Amazing for a debut album.
Booker T & the M.G.’s
Soul Limbo opens
Test Match Special, and there’s a test match on. What else would you tune the
radio in to?
What headphones are for
I want the jabbering masses to shut up. I don’t want to hear
another bing bong annoy-tannoy-jockey telling me about today’s special offers
down the cake aisle, or what platform I need at Tonbridge in the unlikely event
that I want to get off there and go on to Ashford. Why on earth, as long as
there’s brilliant music I’ve not heard yet, as long as there’s literature I’ve
not read, plays I’ve not yet seen, etc., would I have a microsecond to waste on
you and your opinion about the price of beans in Lidl?
I’m not a natural people-watcher or eavesdropper, because
people bore me senseless. Given the choice, give me the dogs. People kill
animals and other people, pollute the planet to the edge of destruction, vote
in ruling gits, or even worse, put up with royal born to power ruling gits.
People are the most dangerous, and at the same time the most boring, tedious,
self-regarding species. What’s the interest? Where’s the attraction?
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