Lou Bond: Remembering the Establishment

Things change.

I haven't written much about music here lately. Who knows why?

Gil Scott-Heron died. Hal David died. Donald Byrd died. This morning, I read that Lou Bond died.

 
We used to talk about the man, about the military industrial complex, and about the establishment. Lou Bond covered Carly Simon's "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be," and this piece alone lifts me up where I want to belong. You must hear it.  Listen to "To The Establishment." It transcends any words I have to describe it.

Lou Bond was not well known to me when he made his music. I heard about him a decade ago.

His work is beautiful.

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Read It and Shake

Sounds of 2013

Throwback

Governor Romney and his family make me think about what it was like back in the day.

Ganett Mimms and the Enchanters: A Quiet Place

Larry Green and Georgie Davis sang this in the Camp Curtin locker room:
Lady, lady lady -- why do you hollar?
Ain't nobody seen your Johnny Dollar.
I can't get no sleep in this noisy street.
I gotta move, I gotta move, I gotta find me a quiet place.





Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness

Fast forward to a battle of the bands. The Noble Souls close with the classic:
Hold you squeeze you, never leave you.
Got to got to my my my my




Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers: Malinda



Thinking about Ruthanne Hopkins but singing this:
Malinda's the girl
who came to my world
and made my interest in all other girls stop.

Blue Magic: Sideshow                      

Playing wallball with the Breeze
Step right up hurry hurry
Before the show begins

Hal David Dies

You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart): Rahsaan Roland Kirk

You´ll never get to heaven (1973) - rahsaan roland kirk by Cotton Jazz on Mixcloud

Hurricane Isaac Mix 2012

Stormy Weather: The Magnificent Men
Water No Get Enemy: Femi Kuti
She's Like the Wind: Vibekingz
Let's Get Blown: Snoop Dogg
Summer Rain: Carl Thomas
Storm Warning: The Volcanos
The Rain: Melody Gardot
Stormy Weather: Little Dragon
Song of the Wind: Gil Scott-Heron
Digging Your Scene: The Blow Monkeys
Wind Parade: Donald Byrd
Wade in the Water: Graham Bond Organization
It Really Doesn't Matter To You: Thundercat
Blown Away: N.E.R.D.
After the Hurricane: Jazmine Sullivan

Sweet and Rare

August 2012: 5 Sweet Soul Songs Under the Radar:

Gene Williams: Don't Let Your Love Fade Away
Milton Wright: Leave Me Alone
Marvin Holmes & Justice: I Can't See You
Michael Orr: Here I Go
William Bell: All I Need is Your Love

I'm a Soul Man ... but

I watched Young Adult on a recent flight, Jason Reitman's follow-up to Up In The Air, and as silly as i thought the film was, I enjoyed the score by Rolfe Kent.

I had never heard of the British composer before, and I kept thinking that the music was actually done by Jun Miyake who figured so prominently in Pina, Wim Wenders beautiful love letter to the German choreographer. At other times, I thought that the music was by Jon Brion, who scored Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Then I saw Ken Ishii was the sound mixer, and I wondered if this was the Japanese electronic mastermind who does the Tokyo Fashion Fuse which my old friend and colleague Alastair Himmer is doing frequently in Tokyo.

Well I do not know if Ishii is the same Ishii, but Rolfe Kent was the reason I sat through gorgeous Charlize Theron's painful but silly take on a Minneapolis author smitten with her high school sweetheart as envisioned by Diablo Cody.

I do know that this is getting more and more twisted as the moments pass, that I would never recommend the film, but that I loved some of the music, even the Teenage Fanclub/Dinosaur Jr. alt-rock 90's music I would never have listened to back then.