Music of the Moment

Homesteader's Love Song... Duet scene from Sam Peckinpah's "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" (1970)

Sung by Stella Stevens & Jason Robards - "Butterfly Mornins & Wildflower Afternoons" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYaItNsVlz0

Hector Zazou, the album: Sahara Blue - music based upon the poems of Arthur Rimbaud;
From a review via AllMusic:
...the album as a mix of musical styles set to lyrics/vocals taken from the pen of Arthur Rimbaud. While it might appear like a pretentious undertaking on paper, the album is a cohesive slice of eclectic music-making. Jazzy spoken word songs such as "Ophelie" intermingle with throbbing dance-oriented numbers like "I'll Strangle You" and quiet, peaceful piano-based meditations such as "Harar et les Gallas." Dead Can Dance duo Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard work their particular magic on "Youth," exchanging vocals, and on "Black Stream," where Perry's dark, somber synth weeps around Gerrard's stunning vocals and yang chin. Zazou himself mostly stays in the background, providing production and electronic sounds, allowing the players to showcase their abilities. John Cale provides two showstoppers in "First Evening" and "Hunger," his voice never sounding better. All of the musicians and vocalists turn in winning performances, so it's almost not fair to call out specific contributors. Sahara Blue is an album that could have been plodding and obscure, but instead it's mostly quite accessible and emotionally and artistically revealing. Albums dealing so heavily in mood and atmosphere are rarely as full of joy as Sahara Blue



another album: Songs of the Cold Seas. From a review in Sound on Sound Magazine:

One of the most striking albums you're ever likely to hear is Songs From The Cold Seas, brainchild of French keyboard player, composer and sound sculptor Hector Zazou. Released earlier this year, it's a long musical voyage across the seas of the North -- the Chukchi Sea, the Greenland Sea, the North Sea, The Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Barents sea, the Kara Sea, Baffin Bay, the Labrador Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Berings Sea, and many others. Eleven times during this voyage, land was visited and local traditional songs and rhythms were sampled and brought back. Thus Songs From The Cold Seas contains exotic singing and percussion playing from the Ainu people of Hokkaido Island, from Eskimos in Baffin Island, from shamans and Yakuti people in Siberia, joik chanting from the Sami people of Lapland, and music from more familiar Nordic places such as Finland, Sweden, Ireland, The Hebrides, Greenland, Iceland and Newfoundland

I've collected most of his music - a one of a kind musician/producer who left this world too soon

Hector Zazou

Sahara Blue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087kkAd197Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-70BokYDeC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9zsX5pWLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicrLoCdhr4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgyx0tehx4

Songs from the Cold Seas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5JAyY1lIyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwR54O6SZwQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIRs66vqx4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50UntXxLfLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2yjI9ExNw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obxd0-k00Gk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gPP-208Vk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sfzkm8m1Jo

Heard this song, If I Had A Fiddle by Jake Stein, played by a bluegrass band that was doing an impromptu jam. It might have been Jake playing the mandolin, not sure. I have to say it sounded awesome played by a band. I can't find it on youtube.

Here is an clip: http://jakestein.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-had-a-fiddle

Well if I had a fiddle or an old mandolin,
I'd write you a song, babe, tell you the shape I'm in,
If I had a banjo or I knew how to play,
Well I'd write you a song, girl, but I don't know what I'd say,
But I'd sure to say, how much I love you, baby.

But you never know when you're gonna end up at an old rodeo.

Well if I had a fiddle, or an old mandolin,
Write you a song, babe, just to tell you where I've been,
If I had a banjo, or I knew how to play,
Write you a song, girl, but I don't know what I'd say, hey.

Song of the day by Bruce Cockburn: Wait No More

Wild things are prowling - storm winds are howling tonight
Everything's transforming into pure crystals of light
The heart is a mirror; it throws back the blaze of love
Bathed in that glow it's no secret what I'm thinking of
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more
Sipping wine with angels in this torch-lit tavern by the sea
What does it take for what's locked up inside to be free?
Fold me into you, you know where I'm dying to be
When my ship sets sail on that ocean of deep mystery
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more
What does it take for the heart to explode into stars?
One day we'll wake to remember how lovely we are
Lightning's a kiss that lands hot on the loins of the sky
Something uncoils at the base of my spine and I cry
I want to wait no more
Wait no more
Wait no more

Last night I was out and about in NYC. Manhattan continues its sad, slow cultural death thanks to the Haute Bourgeoisie.

"Common People" by Pulp covered by William Shatner and Joe Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

I like Joe Jackson......William Shatner is not capt. Kirk I'm guessing?

What I NEED is an outdoor, good and loud, feel it through the ground Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert.