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.

Amy Winehouse Documentary

Chills run up and down my spine when I listen to Amy Winehouse sing.

I spent a large part of my morning on the headset with Amy Winehouse after watching a German documentary about her last night. Listen to Tears Dry on Their Own, Stronger Than Me, and Cherry; then consider what a mammoth loss her death has been.

Taste is taste, but to me, one of the biggest losses in the last fifty years.

Techno in Berlin: A Ubiquitous Sound

All about the bump, bump, bump here.

Saw Paul Kalkbrenner before Trust closed. Just great.

Jet Lag Music

I couldn't sleep at all last night, as I was tossin' and turnin', turnin' and tossin', tossin' and turnin' all night. So I pulled out my (t)rusty iPod and searched for the somnolent solution.

I tried the following:

Gil Scott Heron: Better Days
Marvin Gaye: When Did You Stop Loving Me. When Did I Stop Loving You
Curtis Mayfield: The Makings Of You
Stevie Wonder: I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
Cooly's Hot Box: Maybe I
Stevie Wonder: Superwoman
Raphael Saadiq: Never Give You Up
Regina Carter: Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Musiq: The Girl Next Door
Viktor Vaughn: Fancy Clown
Bill Withers: Can We Pretend
John Klemmer: Forest Child
Heatwave: All You Do is Dial