made a mix for a friend to commit to tape, but i wanted to share it here, too. indie pop / new wave / soul and sweetness. also movie quotes and goofball interludes. this is the first thing i’m putting out under the name ana garda. cheers.
tracklisting
johnny dee * motorbike loves you // saal 2 * strandgefühle // operating theatre * spring is coming with a strawberry in its mouth // sukpatch * stained-n-strained // spring vs. pez * chuck it up! // the style council * long hot summer // los mockers * make up your mind // unhappybirthday * kuskova // roy ayers ubiquity * sunshine (demo) // the siddeleys * sunshine thuggery // jens lekman * a sweet summer’s night on hammer hill // second-hand furniture * nice try, sunshine! // erlend øye * sudden rush // fuck * pizza time // the go-betweens * streets of your town // sexy dex and the fresh * don’t play my b-sides ☀
1. Gambler's Prayer - Caroline Polachek
2. Bless the Telephone - Labi Siffre
3. Everyday Is Like Sunday (Remastered) - Morrissey
4. Dreams - Scraps
5. BYE BYE - Kim Gordon
6. Slide Away (Remastered) - Oasis
7. Spring Is Coming With a Stranger in the Mouth - Roger Doyle
8. New Year's Day - HTRK
I just got introduced to the music of Operating Theatre, an Irish theater company, and their composer Roger Doyle, a couple of days ago by Colin, and I gotta say: they're pretty neat. I was extremely close to posting something extremely unaccessible by them, but instead I'll be nice and post the very chill "Rampwalk," featuring vocals by Olwen Fouéré, instead.
hotpressmagazine: Hozier has taken on the world and won. Now, with the release of his third album Unreal Unearth imminent, he played his biggest ever solo show in the stately environs of Malahide Castle, on the north coast of Dublin. It was, as it turned out, a powerful climax to a magnificent series of gigs.
Because I am back on some very specific bullshit I am ofc also thinking about how Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement met (were very briefly roommates in fact) in the Congo, and seem to have really liked each other. Conrad wrote glowingly of Casement in his diary ("Made the acquaintance of Mr. Roger Casement, which I should consider as a great pleasure under any circumstances and now it becomes a positive piece of luck. Thinks, speaks well, most intelligent and very sympathetic"). Six years later Casement made a point of looking him up in London and they apparently talked until three in the morning.
And then two decades later Casement was hanged for treason because he tried to run guns from Germany to the Easter Rising, whereas Conrad prominently refused to sign the petition for clemency.