The name "Liberia" denotes liberty. The history of this country is unique among African nations because of its relationship with the United States. It is one of only two countries in Africa, along with Ethiopia, without roots in the European Scramble for Africa. It was founded and colonized by freed American slaves with the help [...]
But enough about that. This go 'round will be kept breezy and fun. And the last time I recall things being as such was in the 3rd grade. Around that time I went from feeling 9 years old to 68 in a matter of months; it has been nothing but misunderstandings and Grandpa naps since then. However, there is something inherently magical in music that can assist us all in transcending our current age, however overt the alchemy may be. In this case, the palpable enchantment arrives in the form of The Langley Schools Music Project and [...]
Guest Post Le Monde Fabuleux des Yamasuki - Abana Bakana I put this track on a mix-CD for a girl in France named Margaret, who in a perfect world would be drinking tea and eating toast with me right now. I thought she would find the opening bass line and the choir of a hundred screaming children as irresistible as I found it. The track is from an album that came about as the result of an educational, cultural-exchange program between France and Japan. My elementary school had [...]
INTERNATIONAL WEREWOLF CONSPIRACY "Hip Revolutionaries have the power to strike FEAR!" We are the ultimate Horror Show…Hideous Hair and Dangerous Drugs…Armed Love striking terror into the vacant hearts of the plastic Mother and pig-faced Father. The future of our struggle is the future of fear, FEAR!! The fear of free love, fear of not working, fear of YOUTH …We drink the magic potion and become the spectre that haunts Amerika. We are WEREWOLVES baying at [...]
Une virée dans un monde plein de surprises. yamasuki -yama yama- pizzicato five -twiggy twiggy- funky shammy -my shammy six-
Yamasuki-Yamamoto Kakapote
Yamasuki : Yama Yama , Kono Samurai , Yamasuki , Yokomo and Aieda Taken from the album Le Monde Fabuleux des Yamasuki on Biram (1970) This post stands as a warning to the fledgeling record head, a couple hundred LP's into the game and feeling pretty good about himself and his collection of sample-heavy CTI dollar-bin'ers and lesser known funk-rock gems on Westbound and Cotillion... You don't know [...]
happy end - しんしんしん (mp3) buffalo daughter - earth punk rockers (mp3) yamasuki - kono samourai (mp3) in the spirit of continuing "doing my bit for foreign relations" (please, for the love of god, just ignore me when i'm drunk) here's a super special, bonus, japanese themed triple bill post just for you. following some research after loving 'kaze wo atsumete' on the oh-that's-how-you-do-it soundtrack to lost in translation, i found myself in possession of two albums by japanese 1970's folk rock [...]
This week is a fanciful mix of Japanese, Australian, French and San Diego. Diversity YES! Yamasuki isn't exactly "new" (in fact, it's from 1971), but it's still something that is wholly underrated here in America and, in fact, most places in the world. Yamasuki is the work of experimental French pop composers Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger who put together an album of French/Japanese music (how often do you see that?) which features a Japanese choir singing over some [...]
The Cargo Culte
The Bay Bridged
Molars
L.A.D.R.I.
Diary of a Spacetraveler
soul sides
Best Foot Forward
Hate Something Beautiful
Bison - Quill
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Mr Fogg - Eleven
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
