Mar 5, 2006

retard...

i guess the Academy Awards weren't on last night...maybe tonight...

...currently listening to The Sound Of Greece Vol. 6...
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poet CAConrad said...

The Sound of Greece vol.6

What's that like? vol.6? So this is a big anthology of music it seems, and I was wondering how far back it goes, and where it ends up?

Right this second I'm listening to a local band in Norfolk, Virginia that I stumbled on one night out bar hopping with a good friend from down there. They're called HEAVEN FALLS HARD, and I'm under their spell, they're so good! They're an intense mix of goth and industrial. The lead singer has a voice of an enchantress. She had my complete attention the moment we walked into the bar. It was very much like have the ship drawn right into the fucking rocks! The lyrics aren't the best in the world, but it all sounds great. My favorite song is "Death Wants Poison." Their fans all wear black and never see sunlight, so there I was with my fucking pink and yellow polka dots and green and blue nail polish looking like a poisonous marshmallow, a good night to mix the various oils of nervous and shitfaced amens. It's not since first seeing Diamanda Galas perform live that I've felt envious of toilet seat lids of the diva divine! EEEyowWWW!

Dream of the twiggy robin claw print,
CAConrad

9:36 AM
John Sakkis said...

the sound of greece vol. 6...yeah, it's a huge Mondo Label series...and "huge" is used perjoratively...i used to work at borders...you know those listening stations they have set up? well, after an album runs its course on display the employees get to have the albums...the sound of greece vol. 6 was one of those...it's good but a bit anonomous...

for the best in modern Greek folk music (roughly from 55 to 75) the go to guy is Mikis Theodorakis...Theodorakis is almost painful to listen to he's so good...AND one of the reasons (though there are many) my dad left Greece in 74' after the Junta banned his music...

i don't know if you saw that lucipo post the other day, i think it was phanero who brought it up, an amazing compillation of "Greek underworld" recordings called "Mourmourika: Sound of the Greek Underworld"...anyway, it's fantastic, most of the recordings were made in the teens to early thirties in the various opium dens located throughout Pireaus...where my family is from contemporarily...though historically my family has roots in Sparta...a really weird, depressing album, filled with dopped up songs about women, opium, sex and city-states...i recomend...

by the way, your comment wins best comment of the year award...love it!

4:54 PM

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