One Wot I Like

Zeitgeist imbued summer hit or not if I put my caretaking hat¹ on for a moment I’m concerned at the desks and drum kit obstructing a fire escape route. And as for the length of those straps they could get caught it no end of things. The whole video is a Health & Safety nightmare.

サコウリョーマ (Ryoma Sakoh) – 八月の帳 (August)

Being a Colin Moulding song it’ll take a few listens to decide if it cuts the mustard.

In The Name Of Love by world’s end girlfriend

No one has come close to world’s end girlfriend in perfecting the ‘falling down the stairs’ percussive interjection.

Available here, there and everywhere.

*Pre-1988 U2 references are allowed under the 2007 Dublin Treaty.

For the consideration of the Jury.

Daimon Orchestra have an EP on the go and after mentioning Zappa along with their Bolero t’other day here’s a piece for Trombone Ensemble & Band with XTC referenced. (There’s a couple of minutes of effects at the start).

Following up 2019’s Forest Room mori de kurasu now venture out into the Landscape.

Disrupting / De-constructing / something else beginning with D on Few Fees Friday you can’t pay for shiokara’s trip to the seaside.

Anoice and derivations are at ‘Name Your Price’ but apparently I have everything already including last week’s release from Yuki Murata.

One from Patrick St. Michael’s Otaquest list Still Dreams – Last True Love (though I went for the mini-album Pre-order).

One I missed from last year by Summer Dress which hides away a rather decent song about half way through the last track, My Blue Heaven (not a cover of the number from 1927s Ziegfeld Follies).

And also playing the ‘Name Your Price’ game world’s end girlfriend. My choice being the remaster of enchanted landscape escape from (cough cough) years ago.

Do watch out when putting in the amount to pay as accounts from the same country can sell in different currencies – as I discovered from sticking Yen in a Japanese account asking for dollars and nearly paying £700 for a download.

Always looking for a new challenge Daimon Orchestra have tackled Ravel’s Bolero. I was going to mention the Zappa version but noticed it’s in the track notes. Less random sound effects in this one.

I have against these fast cutting videos is that it’s harder to identify less common-or-garden guitars.

ichikoro – Samurai

The new bulbum from AF Harrold: released immediately after the last Bandcamp Friday in what is either a pointed statement on the State’s insidious abandonment of the arts to a precarious reliance on philanthropy and patronage, or, a coincidence.

Amongst the compulsory ‘Bandcamp No Fees For The Artist Except Paypal’s Friday’ purchases was the most recent Throwing Muses album.

Only the thirty four years since I bought their first one.

I searched what ラブリーサマー ちゃん is up to – going underground apparently…

Sounds a bit like the noisier tracks of Wenn Alles Richtig Ist, Dann Stimmt Was Nich’ era Nena which realistically isn’t a useful reference for anyone except myself.

Which prompted me to see how Nena herself is filling in the time…

Playing with video effects on the home computer it would seem.

Which prompted me to see how her old muckers in Nena the band are getting on – also making an album with a cast of several…

Particularly noteworthy is the Moto Morini by the piano. I had the more upright Strada version which was a better fit for me but had been modded to have the Heron combustion chambers of the sportier version.