26/04/2012

L'ITALIE

Springtime, that time of year when people empty their basement and sell LPs in the streets for a handful of Euros... Here's last weekend top finds:

21/04/2012

18/04/2012

I LOVE YOU PASSIONATELY

Several months ago, I rapped about CHASSOL's then forthcoming album, calling it my "most anticipated release of 2012". And now it's been with me for several weeks, and goddamn it, this fucker delivers! I've been listening to that album X-PIANOS pretty much non-stop.
When every song on an album is conceptual, and genuinely beautiful, and completely trippy, all at the same sweet time, well to me it's like Christmas and my birthday all at once.
Among a million other brilliant ideas, the album almost opens with a harmonization of poet GHERASIM LUCA's stuttering Passionnément. Here's the orginial: And now here's LA NEGACRA.

17/04/2012

WEEKEND FIND

I found this 7" in a yard sale this weekend. Don't ask me no details about it, I can't find many.
The Internet tells me Leila Fateh, mostly known as Line Monty, is an Algerian Jew, and one of the divas of chaâbi. She's apparently extremely famous in North Africa, I for one had never heard of her, but obviously something that beautiful can't be unknown:

07/04/2012

SUPER STUPID

No no, no no no no, no no no no, no no, there's no limit.