Red Spot At The Tip Of Tongue

Blues Oriental Chicken

September 17 Last Jacques Lacarrière disappear, if not in silence, in a relatively discreet, probably the same who had guided her throughout life. Anyway, do stay, death came, as questions, indivisible core nestled in the heart of a life devoted to writing, indecipherable obsidian. Who was he actually? How did he become the tireless wanderer wandering beautiful and ageless? When source his love of Greece he tempered that fairies, princess among the sovereign, "she bent over her crib for the geometer to turn into suds, poet of the origins and genesis, hedonistic contemplative timeless secrets of nature? What hazards have made him the closest of Icarus and Herodotus, the confidant of hermits, the physician of the gods? What great works he has rubbed to become the sprightly writer and deep, greedy beauties of the world? Books, works, they never respond to these questions?

Series of classic Rebetiko
translated by Jacques Lacarriere

But stay on the side of life. In tender lover of Greece, Jacques Lacarrière could only fall in love of rebetiko . Born in the slums of Athens, in the backrooms of the Harbors of Piraeus, the rebetiko is music bad boys come from anywhere, stranded there, living in misery and the eternal love of hashish which only lasted one day, in pursuit of wild dreams that did not wind ... Posted at this crossroads of East and West, a small group of men in precarious existence manages the feat of finding no sign of encouragement or approval, a musical after its condition . What makes rebetiko music as essential that the blues which he is also the only contemporary. Curiously, something that has shaped the national consciousness in the inflections of the music of thugs and marginal, became the pace of change in Greek society, a singing class, then an art in itself.


We are not so numerous as to listen to the recordings seem sensitive and rare reissues. There are, however. Besides the discs some of the historical figures rebetiko *, it is possible, as long as you want it, to get your hands on stunning compilations that would give an idea of what the rebetiko - childless defined musical genre - from his own genius as its importance in the register of folk art. We take as evidence of the Greeks The East , disk so wonderful that take two or three titles back to tear the rest of my soul and makes me fear for the daring, to have a day to pay the price ...

refugees from Asia Minor and Rebetez
take fresh fish market in Piraeus in 1937

short, hell is there ...

• Diplochordo - 1935 (The East of Greeks - Buda Records)
• Min Orkizesse Pseftra - 1934 (ditto )
• San Filo Marameno - 1934 (ditto )

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• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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Chickenhead ( Project Pat - Mista Do not Play : Workin everythang - Relativity, 2001)

* I am available to users The Cadillac of ... who request it by e.mail, a discography of rebetikos essential.

Natural Remedies For Night Sweats

At Octopuce

... Are we going to return, as suggested by the rumor, the great medieval plagues, responsible for the more cynical among us or the most realistic, to proceed to the general population of spring cleaning, to rebalance our presence on Earth, to halt the looting that we make him suffer? Should we believe him? How can you be sure? At a time when the alarm sounds, where the Apocalypse scold, perhaps it is now urgent in these times of wild avian flu, terror poultry plague bird announced, to go for a ride home Hasil Adkins near Madison, Virginia, where he was born in 1937 and never left.

Hitchckock has a good laugh!

course, the chicken did not lead off today, and probably he did not always that way. Everyone will remember, not without emotion, "poule au pot" of Henry IV, who continues to occupy a prominent place in the curriculum, but most wonderful monument ever erected to the glory of our favorite poultry takes the form of a disc staggering, Poultry in Motion , anthology of historical recordings, a real farmyard sound Hasil Hadkins signed. If, by definition, the chicken could be less stupid, if its wings were not purely decorative, it would not hesitate one second to show gratitude and - who knows? - Could even ask for asylum at this ... pioneer of rock 'n' roll.

Hasil Adkins

In 1955, Hasil Adkins invented psychobilly. Or drunkabilly. Or rockabilly. Whatever! Call it what you want. A music critic wrote that when born rock 'n' roll long ago already qu'Hasil Adkins was going to kill him. Today it is a revered musician - say - the Cramps, Motorhead of or Marilyn Manson. The descendants of these sometimes plays tricks ... Anyway. Won by the demon of the country and hillbilly, Hasil learned to play guitar, harmonica, drums and invented a unique style of rock, both original, exuberant and wild. So would he have written over the years, more than 7,000 songs, recorded, in his mobile home on a single magnetic tape with his salary paid mechanic. And while King was still whispering his love ballads, Hasil wrote Rockabillies of Grand Guignol gore which referred to behead his girlfriend and hang them on the coat rack.

The eggs are here, my chicks. Do not be afraid ...

• Chicken Walk - 1956 ( Poultry in Motion - Norton Records - 2000)
  
• Chicken Hop (ditto )
  
• Chicken Blues (ditto )
  

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• Cot-cot-cot codec

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Qidrechinna (Abdel Gadir Salim - Blues in Khartoum - Institute Arab World - 1999)

Best Hair Color Phyto

Apocalypse Escape! there Nothing goes away ...

We all think of names whose evocative power seems so sharp that nothing can dull it. Not even the years, quite the contrary, seem to sharpen the wire. How to explain what it is he? On anything! Nothing specific, anyway. Bookish knowledge is not the cause, experience no more. Maybe it is just a pile of assonance and dissonance, diastole and systole sound whose echo resounds in the most remote areas, or the most secret of our childhood, through what that it was able to hear and catch the rumor world.

Postcard Zanzibar

For my part, Aden, Port Said, Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Mogadishu, Patagonia, Samarkand, - so far, so close - never end making me dizzy. Geographic egotism, daydreams, exotic soul. And then there's the effect of Zanzibar, the most mysterious of all, that just feed a little more a new collection launched by Buda Musique, where triumph already formidable label series Ethiopiques , whose first two volumes Zanzibar seem to extend the spirit.

Zanzibar Rupee

How about the music we like? A good blogger (horrible word), a blog useful not fail to provide valuable information about the popular music of the Swahili coast of East Africa - Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Comoros - which is devoted this new collection . He would say three words of taarab , specify that come from Arabic, is a word that means excitement, or ecstasy, it is a genre unique to meditation and dance, a concept totally incomprehensible in the West.

Only here. I'm not a good blogger (ditto) and all this does not interest me. Or not much. Or far. I prefer to dream. What was happening in the clubs in Zanzibar throughout the last century? Which beats the girls they were trying to frighten the boys, which allowed them swaying dances they hold them for a moment - an eternity - in their arms? What interests me with music, that's it, is love, desire, wets. The rest is the rest ...

Young Women Swahili

So the track ...!

• Cheo Chako sung by Rukia Ramadhani (Zanzibar 1 - Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club - 1905-2005, one hundred years of Taarab in Zanzibar - Buda Musique - 2005)

• Hofu Yako Londeo sung Mohamed Llyas (ditto )

• Dada by Matano Juma ( Zanzibar 2 - The Golden Age of Mombassa Taarab, 1965-1975 - Buda Musique - 2005)

• Kuratu Ayin by & Zein Musical Party Zuhur (ditto )

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• Quid

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Cellar Song - Palace Brothers - There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You - Big Cat Records - 1993

Ford Fiesta Ipod Connection

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Do you feel sometimes, being pursued by bad luck, you swim like that otter, wading into the glue, walking against the wind, to be a subscriber to bad luck? Yes! Between brothers Herman Düne and me is staggered and company, face and back, both sides ... Nothing will! Their biological clock is not the same as mine, their bodies captured at a rate different from mine. When I'm in Paris, they are in mop up, or are hard, when I'm away, they take advantage of - cows! - To give concerts that I know to be great. Continental blues!

I still managed to cross them at a record store, Ground Zero , Where, accompanied by Julie Doiron , they gave a show-box for free. Small acoustic band, great art form. They naturally included several tracks from their latest album, Not On Top , as I still looking for the meaning. How to understand? As a way to suggest they do not feel, or more, at their best. Are they trying to prevent their label that it is not with the shovel of sad songs they reach the top of the charts. With Julie, while still very rough as shown by the provision of Ground Zero?

Andre Herman-Düne

Anyway, one thing is clear to me: the revelation, Andre Herman-Dune, the star, it's him. I realized, like the eye includes the light that was embodied in him the spirit of brotherhood, that we owed him - no matter what the liner notes - these melodies worried that her sweet neurasthenia had found expression in these melancholy songs, he had succeeded in giving shape to the cries that came to him in the chest. Standing in profile, eyes clear, beautiful as the lack Andre played unless it occupied a space - mentally? - As does the shade with summer. At his side, hieratic game of David (guitar, mandolin), his high-pitched voice, the pistons of the snare and hi-hat, all gave the impression that the wind would take us, a road opened wide beneath our feet and we suck ...

Now it's up to you ...

• The Right Path Lays Open Before Me ( They Go To The Woods • Midheaven)
  
• They Go To The Woods (ditto )

For Toxica

• Sunny Sunny Cold Cold Day ( Mas Cambios • The Track & Field Organisation)
  

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• Fantomas

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Want To Come Back (The Ethiopians • Owner Fe De Yard • HeartBeat)

Anatomy For Beginners Sennis

Too young, too late ...

I just close it - after having finished reading, he will without saying - the latest book by Alain Gerber , Lady Day, Stories of love dedicated to "the greatest singer in the history of Afro-American of the twentieth century, Billie Holiday, for those who did not understand. I must admit I went into the 600 pages backward until I felt filled with the feeling that the author of Fiesta in Blue, wrote too much, too much too soon released, he had engaged in a process case of his dozens of years of jazz, thousands of radio included in its count of theft, articles, liner notes and so on ... I was wrong. I was wrong language conducted myself as the most unworthy of prosecutors, such Voroshilov, I hastily tried and feel compelled today to contrition. If Lady Day ... is not, strictly speaking, a great book, it is nevertheless incredibly documented and demonstrated the sensitivity of these qualities of empathy that we had Alain Gerber used for and who time remained as vivid as before. It said.

Billie Holiday has gone to join Lester Young ten days before my first birthday. Who can imagine the jams they give all these poor people - lucky in these conditions - which have already found the way to heaven? Which audience! And fans! In it you want? In here! Just think ... Even the angels, to whom one does not yet have had to stay babas. Limit jealous! Perhaps they have even begun to look with new eyes all those who would not fail to arrive in the coming centuries. You bet! Good surprises like Lester and his Lady, that does not happen every day! Be patient ...! They were probably disappointed, still bitter, of course ...

Too young

As for me, with a little luck, my turn will come. How could it be otherwise? I await repair. When she came to sing in Paris in 1958, I had been born and did not attend the concert. From that side, my parents were not very smart, never in the right place where it never happens. My mother, I imagine it falling from the sky when reading these lines, we will defend lived in Montpellier, we were not rich and all that ... I think at half. My father, he lived upstairs, above the concert hall, a free place offered by the caretaker placed on the buffet, it would not come down. It's not all. If he had took my mother to this recital of Billie Holiday, she would not today not to leave the nose of the French chanson, Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Delerm, all those guys who only dream at the bottom that make the bag and which, for anything, not admitting it. And then, like the bagpipe, it's too good for them. Anyway, when I go to the concert - the real music we hear well - or hard rock or punk - and I see kids, prams, strollers, kangaroos, I'm green with envy retrospective patient.

Phyllis Dillon , course, is not Billie Holiday. Nobody Billie Holiday Billie Holiday. But no one will hold it against him. Phyllis Dillon has never been her own. And as for all people subject to this condition - or even be just - it probably was not funny every day. Spinoza said, it seems, need to persevere in his being. Should we have a choice! A cat he would apologize for being a cat, he would try to be something else? Not a chance. And we humans, something other than monsters?

Too late

We will demonstrate to the career Phyllis Dillon, three discs in all and for everything from "compilation" that loses its Latin, then disappeared, and late comeback before the disease catches up. That ungrateful success, the public. Not a gift. Prefers the dead flowers on the graves. All Saints musicians, it's every day. And I am no better myself, with my old stuff, not interested in music today, alive.

you like the chrysanthemums? Here are three. For Phyllis. Take this and dance on it ...

• Why Did You Leave Me ( Midnight Confessions - Classic Rocksteady 1967-1971 - West Side )
• Remember That Sunday (ditto )
• Do not Stay Away (ditto )

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• Godzilla

Blind test of September 24, 2005
Pick A Ball Of Cotton - Leadbelly - Midnight Special