Monday, April 17, 2006

P.S.

Now all this raving about "Crazy"... I'm afraid there may have been a misunderstanding here: that is NOT my favourite track from the album (Gnarls Barkley's St. Elsewhere).

I haven't heard it all, yet. But among the few tracks I have my 5* go to:
- "Storm coming" (from a barely suggested reggae beat to hard and steady syncopation: healthy drum&bass. not to mention that 80% of the time I feel like there's a storm a-coming, no matter how much sun finds place in the sky)
- "Smiley faces" (love that beat, can't sit still whenever I hear it)
- "The last time" (I listen to the lyrics and all I can think of is "I wanna dance". Nothing sexy, just a classy shuffle with a slide, that's what I have in mind for this track here)

Now If I can, I would like to gently steer our conversation towards jazz: the appropriate, not too traumatic transition here would be, uhm, Medeski, Martin & Wood "Anonymous skulls" (from End of the world party-just in case) and Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Birds of fire".

And to cleanse your palate, The New Pornographers, "These are the fables"

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