Champion
Champion
Pom Poko, El Mató a un Policía Motorizado covers Talking Heads, Chantal Acda, Maria W Horn, Cindy Lee, Temple of the Acid Fist Records and more.
Hello, here’s the ever late newsletter. I’d been travelling a lot, attending events & meeting friends in September, which is why I didn’t have the time to wrap this up until today.
♩Gradually warmed up and now completely stuck at this year’s album from Norwegian
4 piece math-pop outfit Pom Poko, which rightly gives me some Marnie Stern feels through its angular melodies and arrangements.
“Keep driving, try something, squeeze your foot, until you put a hold onto your youth, Champion!”
♩Beverly Glenn-Copeland is diagnosed with dementia, and this will be his last tour. So please if you have the chance, see a living spiritual new age prophet in person, who was once lost in time, and came in back just in time to give you this, and many others.
“This world is our combined imagination, your life a precious personal creation, “what have you learnt”? “what lessons earnt”? they say. Each of us to others is connected, if one of us is lost, we are all affected, how will you live, what will you give today, they beckon me. Come love can redeem, life is an art, you have a part, it’s yours to play. Come show us your dreams, life needs your hand, to do what you can, in your own way!”
♩Crash Course in Covers! : The original being one of my absolute disco-ish faves from the Talking Heads repertoire - and one track I play a lot when I’m DJing -, there was absolutely no way to for the Argentinian rock band El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, to come and make it theirs, yet that’s what they did!
Bonus: Compare an early Talking Heads live and watch David Byrne sing it recently, 30 years apart.
♩Panoptikon is a suite of vocal & electronic music composed by Maria W Horn for an installation in the disbanded Vita Duvan panopticon prison in Luleå, Sweden.
The title Omnia Citra Mortem is a horrid legal term "Everything until death" which means the accused who did not confess their crime could not be sentenced to death, would be tortured until a confession was made.
♩Chantal Acda has a perfect soundtrack to process grief or a breakup. Jazzy but in the form of a folky outsider vocal pop featuring collossal jazz & avantgarde musicians like Bill Frisell, Colin Stetson, Shahzad Ismaily, Thomas Morgan, Eric Thielemans et al.
“Here we are we tried to talk, but the words come out so wrong..”
♩Someone on twitter just came up with and executed a great idea, a 24/7 Shazam machine in San Fran.
♩ Spotted another AI label in the wild, Temple of the Acid Fist, one more complete both in sound and in art direction. We are really in uncharted territories folks. Here’s their take on Psychedelic Afrorock, and the example below “Oghuz Khagan”, Turkish Psychedelic Rock.
♩Cindy Lee shares an official video for one of the many dazzling highlights from 2024's album of the year, Diamond Jubilee (which, by the way, is still available for free download on CL's geocities??!). (via Gorilla vs Bear), and if you haven’t still watched this wonderful live from the last newsletter, I don’t know how I can push you any forward in life.
♩Turned on to this dreamy, 60’s aesthetic visually and a sweet bossa groove by a close friend of mine, Alican Tezer of the Turkish psychedelic rock band Ayyuka & Berlin’s Tegel Boys while visiting him in Berlin.
♩One day after I saw a Jazz Kissa book on the coffee table of another friend, the Istanbul DJ Volkan Judocu, the instagram algo feeds me the Jazz Kissa account, sinister I know! (but thanks all-seeing-algo), and on that final note, here’s a photo of Murakami and his Tokyo jazz bar in the past.
“In 1974, long before his first novel, a young jazz-obsessed Haruki Murakami and his wife Yōko Takahashi opened a bar in Tokyo - neither had even graduated college yet.
The bar – named after their pet, Peter Cat – was a small basement space, where the couple cooked, cleaned, served drinks, hosted live musicians and played records, all day and into the night. Murakami would pull from his collection of then-3,000 records. A number that has reportedly ballooned to over 10,000.”
Adieu until next time!