A latin sizzler from Bill Frisell's latest album with Vinicius Cantuaria: Lagrimas Mexicanas. You'd have to be a hard-core gringo not to like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3no_O1CnBzA
torsdag 31 mars 2011
tisdag 29 mars 2011
Don't diss Disfarmer!
Off to Uppsala tonight to catch Bill Frisells'Disfarmer tour. Lucky me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWlnnyqoiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWlnnyqoiM
måndag 28 mars 2011
La machina rock?
Some of my pals have been getting nostalgic about a post-punk sampler called Catch a Wave.
http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/comp/cawff1.htm
For me the 1968 CBS mid-price sampler The Rock Machine Turns You On was a similar epiphany. Well not an EP-iphany, more an LP-iphany!
I discovered it on one of our visits to our cousins, the Craigs in Clacton. Now those lads had their finger on the pulse! Still have in fact!
Check out this Spanish site where the blogger has found video clips of many of the songs on it! Fabuloso!
http://elselectorcovers.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-first-long-play-rock-machine-turns.html
Que vida!
Who'd have thought that 40 years on, I'd be sitting in Stockholm reading a Spanish fan site, on the (space-age!) internet, about that record.
http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/discog/comp/cawff1.htm
For me the 1968 CBS mid-price sampler The Rock Machine Turns You On was a similar epiphany. Well not an EP-iphany, more an LP-iphany!
I discovered it on one of our visits to our cousins, the Craigs in Clacton. Now those lads had their finger on the pulse! Still have in fact!
Check out this Spanish site where the blogger has found video clips of many of the songs on it! Fabuloso!
http://elselectorcovers.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-first-long-play-rock-machine-turns.html
Que vida!
Who'd have thought that 40 years on, I'd be sitting in Stockholm reading a Spanish fan site, on the (space-age!) internet, about that record.
lördag 26 mars 2011
Glam or glum?
Zoe hasn't really cracked the idea of glamour yet.
Ian gave her a bright purple feather boa for her birthday. Instead of prancing and posing with it, she has been slowly picking it to pieces. This means that our flat has acquired the appearance of a psychelic chicken coop with purple feathers strewn over everything.
Boaing boaing bong!
Ian gave her a bright purple feather boa for her birthday. Instead of prancing and posing with it, she has been slowly picking it to pieces. This means that our flat has acquired the appearance of a psychelic chicken coop with purple feathers strewn over everything.
Boaing boaing bong!
tisdag 22 mars 2011
Mudchester
The snow is melting and spring is in the air.
This would be wonderful were it not for the large amounts of mud everywhere. Kai came home from school coated in it, looking the Mad Mud Monster of Mudchester. Everything that came anywhere near him turned brown.
Daz-tardly! Can nothing stop the Tide? That boy is going to turn me into an Omo-sexual!
This would be wonderful were it not for the large amounts of mud everywhere. Kai came home from school coated in it, looking the Mad Mud Monster of Mudchester. Everything that came anywhere near him turned brown.
Daz-tardly! Can nothing stop the Tide? That boy is going to turn me into an Omo-sexual!
I don't think Mrs M would have gone much on Chaucer
The Mrs Miller Story.
A strange and wonderful tale...
http://www.danacountryman.com/elva/elva.html
A strange and wonderful tale...
http://www.danacountryman.com/elva/elva.html
måndag 21 mars 2011
Not so golden slumbers
Just what we needed when we were already totally knackered!
First Kai had a nightmare and woke us up at 3 am. He told me he's only going to sleep during daytime from now on to avoid nightmares. I tried to explain to him why we have dreams and nightmares and how important they are. I then began to give him a lecture about Freud and his interpretation of dreams. That soon got him off to sleep.
And then at 5.30 Little Miss Sunshine strides in brandishing her Boogie Beebies DVD. She drags me out of bed to join her for morning gym with her TV favourites. Come on Daddy move those arms and legs!
The Funky Monkey! The Wacky Penguin! The Groovy Duck! What a way to start the day!
First Kai had a nightmare and woke us up at 3 am. He told me he's only going to sleep during daytime from now on to avoid nightmares. I tried to explain to him why we have dreams and nightmares and how important they are. I then began to give him a lecture about Freud and his interpretation of dreams. That soon got him off to sleep.
And then at 5.30 Little Miss Sunshine strides in brandishing her Boogie Beebies DVD. She drags me out of bed to join her for morning gym with her TV favourites. Come on Daddy move those arms and legs!
The Funky Monkey! The Wacky Penguin! The Groovy Duck! What a way to start the day!
lördag 19 mars 2011
Her face at first just ghostly..
And it was that later as the Miller did her wail...
Astrid is over for dinner and I think you can imagine her delight when I brought out my Mrs Miller compilation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf0KpluvgM
Ulrika had no idea what she was about to be hit by so she really suffered. Poor girl!
Astrid is over for dinner and I think you can imagine her delight when I brought out my Mrs Miller compilation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf0KpluvgM
Ulrika had no idea what she was about to be hit by so she really suffered. Poor girl!
fredag 18 mars 2011
Tom Traubert Alley?
torsdag 17 mars 2011
Not so FA B!
Heartbreaking to watch developments in Japan.
But have no fear! P Diddy and his pals are going to record a charity single!
I've been watching the Japanese helicopters pouring water over the reactors and keep thinking: where are International Rescue?
Typical of the world we live in? You need Thunderbirds and what you get is ....the Diddymen!
But have no fear! P Diddy and his pals are going to record a charity single!
I've been watching the Japanese helicopters pouring water over the reactors and keep thinking: where are International Rescue?
Typical of the world we live in? You need Thunderbirds and what you get is ....the Diddymen!
onsdag 16 mars 2011
Heavy girls or loight boys?
This week's orgy of nostalgia continues. By enormous popular request, here he is The Singing Postman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TIFiaHyC9E
Back in the day he knocked the Beatles off the number one spot. Deeply politicially incorrect. And all in a thick Norfolk accent. Wonderful stuff. I wonder if he ever did a Peel Session.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TIFiaHyC9E
Back in the day he knocked the Beatles off the number one spot. Deeply politicially incorrect. And all in a thick Norfolk accent. Wonderful stuff. I wonder if he ever did a Peel Session.
Welcome to the Anubis Centre of Kärrtorp
My great dream in life used to be of opening a subsidiary of the Multi Kulti record shop here in Kärrtorp. But now, very sadly, that wonderful musical oasis is no more, the victim of downloading and on-line sales. Record shops are a thing of the past.
Bur you can't download a dog biscuit. You can't do walkies on line.Amazon don't provide a pooper scooping service. Dogs and dogcare are the new rock and rol.l. And a serious money spinner. My advice to Magnus would be: re-open Multi Kulti as Multi Hundi and he can't go wrong.
And my own canine business idea is really starting to take shape. As I was doing the washing this morning, I realised that I have to think big on this one. So I've ditched my idea for a no frills dog minding service. No, now I'm going the whole hog (or perhaps I should say the whole dog.)
If punters are prepared to fork out 6 000 for common or garden dog minding, what would they be prepared to pay for an establishment that caters for their pooches' spiritual needs as well as their material ones?
And so was born the idea of the Anubis Centre: a fully new age canine experience. Organic dog biscuits. Yoga for dogs. Canine Thai Chi. Therapy sessions that will help clients to re-discover their inner puppy.
The decor has to be right of course. I thought we could search for inspiration in the temples of Ancient Egypt and the cult of Anubis, the dog-headed god. Gold trimmings and hand painted hieroglphics. All very discreet and tasteful of course!
The possibilities are endless. I could then write a series of best-selling self-help books on the lines of: Daschounds are from Mars, Alsatians are from Venus. Yes indeedy! Where there's hounds, there's pounds.
Recently there was a guy here in DStockholm who sold out the Globe Arena. Was he a muscular rocker with a sensational show. No! A mere dog-trainer who had a few anecdotes to tell about dealing with pooches. For which he got paid a fat wad of dosh. And everywhere he went, this guru of doggery was surrounded by hordes of beautiful, adoring women whose greatest dream is to go for walkies with him!
So, yes the Anubis Centre! What a nice ring that has to it! I'm onto a winner this time!
So what do you think? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Or just plain barking mad?
Bur you can't download a dog biscuit. You can't do walkies on line.Amazon don't provide a pooper scooping service. Dogs and dogcare are the new rock and rol.l. And a serious money spinner. My advice to Magnus would be: re-open Multi Kulti as Multi Hundi and he can't go wrong.
And my own canine business idea is really starting to take shape. As I was doing the washing this morning, I realised that I have to think big on this one. So I've ditched my idea for a no frills dog minding service. No, now I'm going the whole hog (or perhaps I should say the whole dog.)
If punters are prepared to fork out 6 000 for common or garden dog minding, what would they be prepared to pay for an establishment that caters for their pooches' spiritual needs as well as their material ones?
And so was born the idea of the Anubis Centre: a fully new age canine experience. Organic dog biscuits. Yoga for dogs. Canine Thai Chi. Therapy sessions that will help clients to re-discover their inner puppy.
The decor has to be right of course. I thought we could search for inspiration in the temples of Ancient Egypt and the cult of Anubis, the dog-headed god. Gold trimmings and hand painted hieroglphics. All very discreet and tasteful of course!
The possibilities are endless. I could then write a series of best-selling self-help books on the lines of: Daschounds are from Mars, Alsatians are from Venus. Yes indeedy! Where there's hounds, there's pounds.
Recently there was a guy here in DStockholm who sold out the Globe Arena. Was he a muscular rocker with a sensational show. No! A mere dog-trainer who had a few anecdotes to tell about dealing with pooches. For which he got paid a fat wad of dosh. And everywhere he went, this guru of doggery was surrounded by hordes of beautiful, adoring women whose greatest dream is to go for walkies with him!
So, yes the Anubis Centre! What a nice ring that has to it! I'm onto a winner this time!
So what do you think? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Or just plain barking mad?
tisdag 15 mars 2011
Puppy love
There comes a time in every man's life when he feels that a change of career beckons. I feel I have arrived at such a moment of truth.
I was talking to Gitte, Nikki's owner, yesterday and she told me that on Södermalm doting dow-owners are prepared to pay 6 000 SEK a month for a place at a doggy dagis. Now that's what I call a license to print money!
What am I doing sitting slaving in front of a computer all day when I could be doing next to nothing except taking man's best friends for occasional walkies when I felt like it?
Our flat surely must be big enough to take at least 10 doggy-dayboys? A few more if I can get some chihuhuas. Costs? A few plastic bags to pick up poo and some dog biscuits and Pedigree Chum. And then I can just sit back and watch the dosh come rolling in.
But of course I will not let my new-found wealth go to my head, nor forget my old pals. I'll be only too happy to offer a job to that fine chap, my current boss Mr Watson. With 10 active doggy bottoms I'm sure I'll be in need of an Assistant¨Poo Picker-Upper!
Doggone it! What can possibly go wrong???
I was talking to Gitte, Nikki's owner, yesterday and she told me that on Södermalm doting dow-owners are prepared to pay 6 000 SEK a month for a place at a doggy dagis. Now that's what I call a license to print money!
What am I doing sitting slaving in front of a computer all day when I could be doing next to nothing except taking man's best friends for occasional walkies when I felt like it?
Our flat surely must be big enough to take at least 10 doggy-dayboys? A few more if I can get some chihuhuas. Costs? A few plastic bags to pick up poo and some dog biscuits and Pedigree Chum. And then I can just sit back and watch the dosh come rolling in.
But of course I will not let my new-found wealth go to my head, nor forget my old pals. I'll be only too happy to offer a job to that fine chap, my current boss Mr Watson. With 10 active doggy bottoms I'm sure I'll be in need of an Assistant¨Poo Picker-Upper!
Doggone it! What can possibly go wrong???
måndag 14 mars 2011
The Miller's Wail?
I found a Mrs Miller compilation in a charity shop on Saturday and bought it out of idle curisoity.
Well, we all know what happened to the curious cat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPPbONFXYc
I suppose it's lift music. From that horror film where the lift gobbles up the passengers!
I wonder what happened to poor Mr Miller? My blood chills at the thought!
They sent Mrs Miller to Vietnam to entertain the troops! What did that do to morale?
She really should have been featured on the Apocalypse Now soundtrack!
Well, we all know what happened to the curious cat...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEPPbONFXYc
I suppose it's lift music. From that horror film where the lift gobbles up the passengers!
I wonder what happened to poor Mr Miller? My blood chills at the thought!
They sent Mrs Miller to Vietnam to entertain the troops! What did that do to morale?
She really should have been featured on the Apocalypse Now soundtrack!
Hits and Mrs
After Mrs Miller, here's Mrs Mills, stalwart of British light entertainment until all those long-haired, guitar-playing hooligans came along and blew her, the Black and White Minstrel Show and Billy Cotton to kingdom come!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhkYB4kcaLg
When I was Kai's age the Beeb served this up as the epitome of musical entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhkYB4kcaLg
When I was Kai's age the Beeb served this up as the epitome of musical entertainment.
Sheepish
I am very glad I am not a sheep on the Faroe Islands! They are in for a chilly summer.
My immaculately fashion-conscious pal, Penny, in London has just ordered a "Sara Lund sweater" from the Faroes and I suspect that thousands of UK fashionistas will be following suit.
So those poor little baa-stards are in for a close shave as the Faraonic knitters get to work to satisfy demand.
My immaculately fashion-conscious pal, Penny, in London has just ordered a "Sara Lund sweater" from the Faroes and I suspect that thousands of UK fashionistas will be following suit.
So those poor little baa-stards are in for a close shave as the Faraonic knitters get to work to satisfy demand.
söndag 13 mars 2011
Fairies and ferroviles
Zoe and I have been at a very pink, girly party. I think Andreas and I were the only ones not dressed as fairies. Then again, we both look like trolls without any make up! A very good time was had by all.
While we were away, Kai was busy building a train track that went to every corner of our flat. Here's Kärrtorp's little Mussolini making sure that the trains run on time. Andreas mentioned that when I was picking up his lordship from school recently he heard Kai shouting to me: Come on Mr Iphone! I haven't got all day!
Young 'uns today!No respect for their olders and betters.
lördag 12 mars 2011
Zoe's Euromission
The Swedish Eurovision song selection programme was on telly tonight so I skulked into the kitchen plannning to sit and listen to my new CD of minimalistic ambient folk music by Spiro. Zoe was not having that. Our little disco girl came and dragged me into the living room to sit through all the entries.Sigh!
Kai to his credit (I suppose) backed the winning song by spaniel-eyed toy boy Eric Saade and was over the moon when it won. It really isn't a very good song but try telling our son that. Ulrika and I sat there and grumbled like a pair of old fogies.
Kai and I have actually seen Eric live: last summer at Gröna Lund. He's a talented enough pop star. But in the middle of the set when he did some ballads, Kai got bored and inisted that we went off for a go on the Wild Mouse rollercoaster. We got back in time for his hit during which he took a shower on stage(!)so Farrow Junior was perfectly satisfied.
Yesterday I bought Kai a couple of classic metal albums by Sabbath and Maiden in the charity shop. I have some work to do on his musical taste!
Kai to his credit (I suppose) backed the winning song by spaniel-eyed toy boy Eric Saade and was over the moon when it won. It really isn't a very good song but try telling our son that. Ulrika and I sat there and grumbled like a pair of old fogies.
Kai and I have actually seen Eric live: last summer at Gröna Lund. He's a talented enough pop star. But in the middle of the set when he did some ballads, Kai got bored and inisted that we went off for a go on the Wild Mouse rollercoaster. We got back in time for his hit during which he took a shower on stage(!)so Farrow Junior was perfectly satisfied.
Yesterday I bought Kai a couple of classic metal albums by Sabbath and Maiden in the charity shop. I have some work to do on his musical taste!
Nordic Knitwear
"Killing" fever is sweeping the UK. (Ok what I mean is 2 or 3 of my pals are keen viewers).Nordic noir seems to appeal to Brits who are Midsummered out. My thanks to Penny for sending me this link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/mar/10/the-killing-sophie-grabol-sarah-lund
With Sarah Lund's jumper the talk of the town, maybe there will now be knitting fever?
There's a second series which I'm pleased to see is now available as a boxset here in Sweden.
Jumpermania is here to stay.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/mar/10/the-killing-sophie-grabol-sarah-lund
With Sarah Lund's jumper the talk of the town, maybe there will now be knitting fever?
There's a second series which I'm pleased to see is now available as a boxset here in Sweden.
Jumpermania is here to stay.
Wee timorous slikit cowering phonie?
Truly iBernian! A Burns app!
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Robert-Burns-app-created-to.6694960.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Robert-Burns-app-created-to.6694960.jp
torsdag 10 mars 2011
Don't count your poppadums until they're popped!
Yesterday evening I was looking forward to a mellow evening scoffing curry and indulging in some witty banter with ex-pat pals. Instead I got one that was as far from that as you can get: three hours in the Accident and Emergency Department at the Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital with Zoe. She had a nasty fall just as we got home from nursery and had two deep gashes in her brow that needed stitching.
Once she'd got over the initial shock of the blood gushing from her head she was as good as gold. She has such a sunny disposition.
In fact she was in good spirits all the time until it was time for the stitching.
Then she screamed her head off and peed all over me. Can't blame her!
Today she's cheerful and naughty as ever! She'd only been up five minutes before she was sneaking into the cupboard to scoff sweets from Kai's secret stash.
Poor little sausage!
Once she'd got over the initial shock of the blood gushing from her head she was as good as gold. She has such a sunny disposition.
In fact she was in good spirits all the time until it was time for the stitching.
Then she screamed her head off and peed all over me. Can't blame her!
Today she's cheerful and naughty as ever! She'd only been up five minutes before she was sneaking into the cupboard to scoff sweets from Kai's secret stash.
Poor little sausage!
onsdag 9 mars 2011
App-artunity knocks?
Tonight I'm going out with some pals for a few pints and a curry.
I can't wait to show them all the wonderful new apps on my iPhone.
It all starts in a Scottish pub so I'm a tad miffed that I haven't got the iPiper that would enable me to play popular Scottish melodies in a bapipe stylee to get us alll in the mood.
But I do have iPianp, iBone, iOcarina, iGuitar and iHarp.Not to mention Eno's ambient app Bloom and iDaft which transforms me into Daft Punk.
Then I've got apps with useful quotations from a variety of languages, living and dead.
Groovy geography quizes. Point at the globe and locate Papua New Guinea!
Instant access to several important international newspapers. Nothing like the latest headlines from Tashkent to get the conversation started!
I really didn't realise how much my new gadget can do.
Blown into it and it plays flutey new age melodies.
Point it at a sound system and it will tell you which tune is playing and then give you the lyrics. Kieron and I were able to sing along, karaoke style to the theme from Shaft at Debaser on Tuesday.
Point it at a bird and it will identify the species.
Turn on iBeer and submerge your phone in a pint and it will identify the brewery.
Activate Tandoor-i and dunk it in the curry and you'll be informed how strong it really is.
Do iBears shit in the iWoods? The iSpoor app will rapidly identify that mysterious lump of poo that you find in the forest!
I'm particlarly taken with Roman-i, a GSM map app that shows where you are on the road system of the ancient Roman Empire. Very handy if your chariot is caught in a tailback on the Via Appia. Geddit?
As that wag Ian commented: It'll all end in APPocalypse!
I can't wait to show them all the wonderful new apps on my iPhone.
It all starts in a Scottish pub so I'm a tad miffed that I haven't got the iPiper that would enable me to play popular Scottish melodies in a bapipe stylee to get us alll in the mood.
But I do have iPianp, iBone, iOcarina, iGuitar and iHarp.Not to mention Eno's ambient app Bloom and iDaft which transforms me into Daft Punk.
Then I've got apps with useful quotations from a variety of languages, living and dead.
Groovy geography quizes. Point at the globe and locate Papua New Guinea!
Instant access to several important international newspapers. Nothing like the latest headlines from Tashkent to get the conversation started!
I really didn't realise how much my new gadget can do.
Blown into it and it plays flutey new age melodies.
Point it at a sound system and it will tell you which tune is playing and then give you the lyrics. Kieron and I were able to sing along, karaoke style to the theme from Shaft at Debaser on Tuesday.
Point it at a bird and it will identify the species.
Turn on iBeer and submerge your phone in a pint and it will identify the brewery.
Activate Tandoor-i and dunk it in the curry and you'll be informed how strong it really is.
Do iBears shit in the iWoods? The iSpoor app will rapidly identify that mysterious lump of poo that you find in the forest!
I'm particlarly taken with Roman-i, a GSM map app that shows where you are on the road system of the ancient Roman Empire. Very handy if your chariot is caught in a tailback on the Via Appia. Geddit?
As that wag Ian commented: It'll all end in APPocalypse!
Canine chaperone
An interesting afternoon.
Once again we are dog-sitting Nikki who is currently on heat. This led to some interesting discussions with Kai on the way home from school about why I didn't want to let her off the lead.
She's on heat, Kai.
Maybe she'd like a roll in the snow? To cool down.
I think she'd be more interested in a roll in the hay.
Anÿway, just as I was getting on to the nitty gritty of canine sexuality who should pop up but Malthus, Nikki's pal. Malthus is a rather handsome male dog and I think our Nix has a bit of a thing about him. If he appears on his balcony when we walk past, she comes to a standstill and gazes up lovingly at him. It's real Romeo and Juliet stuff, doggy style.
Today for some reason he was not on his lead. And he of course was extremely interested in her.
Oh look, Daddy, Malthus wants to play!
He certainly did!
So suddenly I found myself thrust into the unlikely role of a chaperone, not one of which I have much experience! It must have been quite a hilarious sight. Two star-crossed lovers trying to follow their natural impulses and me desperately trying to keep them apart while trying to explain to Kai how puppies happened and why I thought they were not such a good idea at this point. Mercifully we managed to find Malthus's owner and so Cupid was thwarted.
Once again we are dog-sitting Nikki who is currently on heat. This led to some interesting discussions with Kai on the way home from school about why I didn't want to let her off the lead.
She's on heat, Kai.
Maybe she'd like a roll in the snow? To cool down.
I think she'd be more interested in a roll in the hay.
Anÿway, just as I was getting on to the nitty gritty of canine sexuality who should pop up but Malthus, Nikki's pal. Malthus is a rather handsome male dog and I think our Nix has a bit of a thing about him. If he appears on his balcony when we walk past, she comes to a standstill and gazes up lovingly at him. It's real Romeo and Juliet stuff, doggy style.
Today for some reason he was not on his lead. And he of course was extremely interested in her.
Oh look, Daddy, Malthus wants to play!
He certainly did!
So suddenly I found myself thrust into the unlikely role of a chaperone, not one of which I have much experience! It must have been quite a hilarious sight. Two star-crossed lovers trying to follow their natural impulses and me desperately trying to keep them apart while trying to explain to Kai how puppies happened and why I thought they were not such a good idea at this point. Mercifully we managed to find Malthus's owner and so Cupid was thwarted.
The family circus
Couldn't resist posting this. Zoe was so proud at being able to climb up and stand on the back of the sofa!
The good the bad and the gecko
On Saturday Kai and I went to see Rango. A strange but entertaining film.
Imagine a remake of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a spaghetti western. Then cast it with a gaggle of Beatrix Potter beasties who've been badly overdoing the moonshine and crystal meth and you get some idea. Different.
Kai liked it.
Imagine a remake of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a spaghetti western. Then cast it with a gaggle of Beatrix Potter beasties who've been badly overdoing the moonshine and crystal meth and you get some idea. Different.
Kai liked it.
måndag 7 mars 2011
iLand Fling
I'm heartbroken that the app which can transform my iphone into a dalek is not available in the Swedish Itunes stores. Neither indeed is the iPiper which would morph it into some bagpipes.
I intend to take this case to the human rights tribunal in Brussels!
A clear case of discrimination against ethinic and intergalactic minorities!
I intend to take this case to the human rights tribunal in Brussels!
A clear case of discrimination against ethinic and intergalactic minorities!
iDaft as an iBrush?
I've now dowloaded all kinds of interesting musical instrument apps onto my iphone. For the children of course! I wouldn't mess about with such frivolities myself.
Kai is very taken with iDaft which makes it sound like those electronic Frenchmen. And then I discovered this clip which was very inspiring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KBAcJ53ak
Coming to a T banan near you soon? The Daft Farrows!
Kai is very taken with iDaft which makes it sound like those electronic Frenchmen. And then I discovered this clip which was very inspiring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KBAcJ53ak
Coming to a T banan near you soon? The Daft Farrows!
söndag 6 mars 2011
Always look on the dark side?
Sometimes my own ignorance embarasses me!
How could I not know that there is a bluegrass Pink Floyd tribute album: Dark Side of the Moonshine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HAnpglqkk
I do now thanks to the wonderful Boistophe blogsite.He's even done a compilation of the various DSOM tribute albums:
http://baistophe.blogspot.com/2009/03/show-me-your-dark-side-abo021.html
What a great loss to the human race that all my friends with eccentric music collections have careers, partners,dogs, families, studies etc. If they didn't have a life they could spend hours treating the word to wacko compilations like this!
I'd lsten to them all!
How could I not know that there is a bluegrass Pink Floyd tribute album: Dark Side of the Moonshine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HAnpglqkk
I do now thanks to the wonderful Boistophe blogsite.He's even done a compilation of the various DSOM tribute albums:
http://baistophe.blogspot.com/2009/03/show-me-your-dark-side-abo021.html
What a great loss to the human race that all my friends with eccentric music collections have careers, partners,dogs, families, studies etc. If they didn't have a life they could spend hours treating the word to wacko compilations like this!
I'd lsten to them all!
lördag 5 mars 2011
Egg Man-agement
Can there be anyone in their right mind who would not want a compilation album featuring nothing but cover versions of I am the Walrus?
http://baistophe.blogspot.com/2008/09/nevermind-walruses-vac-012.html
A labour of love from a rather marvelous blogsite.
I just downloaded their compilation of Tri Yann (The Three Johns) who are Breton folk rock's answer to....??? .... the Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span/The Oyster band/The Chieftains?
http://baistophe.blogspot.com/2008/09/nevermind-walruses-vac-012.html
A labour of love from a rather marvelous blogsite.
I just downloaded their compilation of Tri Yann (The Three Johns) who are Breton folk rock's answer to....??? .... the Fairport Convention/Steeleye Span/The Oyster band/The Chieftains?
fredag 4 mars 2011
Pancake Goes Britfolk - Dogan Mehmet
My English folk odyssey takes me to trendy Brighton and a folk singer with Turkish roots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjMXsyYQaPw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjMXsyYQaPw
Pancake Goes Britfolk - Gadarene
If I'm doing English folk, there has just go to to be some clog dancing! Don't see much of that in Stockholm except when the Unthanks are in town. Here's a fine band called Gadarene putting that right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAmr4YBnFVk
And here they are in more instrumnetal mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWa3FROTpic
And their website:
http://www.myspace.com/gadarenemusic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAmr4YBnFVk
And here they are in more instrumnetal mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWa3FROTpic
And their website:
http://www.myspace.com/gadarenemusic
App-titude
Smiling Appy People!
In the last week I (and Kai) have been seriously getting into Iphone Apps. So many wonderful things. Today we were experimenting with MeAnderthal, an app from the Smithsonian Institute that transformed us both into Neantherdals.
Ulrika would probably argue that little transformation was necessary!
In the last week I (and Kai) have been seriously getting into Iphone Apps. So many wonderful things. Today we were experimenting with MeAnderthal, an app from the Smithsonian Institute that transformed us both into Neantherdals.
Ulrika would probably argue that little transformation was necessary!
tisdag 1 mars 2011
Pancake goes Britfolk - Spiro
A very fine English folk/jazz/classical band that I'd never heard of before this week. They come from Bristol and had been playing together for yonks wheh they got signed to Real World. Their album is called Lightbox and I can't wait to hear it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3P_NAgWvMM&feature=related
Thank goodness I have the Wise Man of Turku to keep reminding me of the muscal delights coming out of Blighty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3P_NAgWvMM&feature=related
Thank goodness I have the Wise Man of Turku to keep reminding me of the muscal delights coming out of Blighty!
Pancake goes Britfolk - Bellowhead
I've been far too neglectful of British folk music on this blog.
This week I will put that right and post some favourites old and new. Here's one of the best live bands (in any genre) that I've seen in recent years. I saw them at Roskilde but sadly they've never visited Stockholm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9joSfUB5k
This week I will put that right and post some favourites old and new. Here's one of the best live bands (in any genre) that I've seen in recent years. I saw them at Roskilde but sadly they've never visited Stockholm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ9joSfUB5k
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