Here we go again:
First off, Rufus Wainwright has a new album coming out next month. This is the first single from it, and it’s a pretty direct indictment of everything that’s wrong with the country right now: Rufus Wainwright – “Going To A Town.”
Another track from Grindhouse: This time the theme to Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof” –which originally was the theme to Village of the Giants, one of the best B-Movies of all time. Jack Nitzsche – “The Last Race.”
A new single from UK based “baroque pop” artist Patrick Wolf, which I first heard this week, and really dug. Patrick Wolf – “Overture.”
There’s apparently an active subculture of musicians doing modern re-interpretation of traditional Balkan sounds. This group is from Brooklyn and mixes hip-hop influences with the traditional vocal sounds and instruments: BalkanBeatBox – “Adir Adrimi”
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Been watching the final episodes of The Sopranos, which has got me thinking about the great music they’ve used throughout the series. Here’s a track they used in the second (or was it third? I can’t recall) season, from the same group who provided the series’ famous theme song: A3 – “Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlife.”
Some nifty international-intrigue chillout music, from the soundtrack to an imaginary movie, The Mirror Conspiracy: Thievery Corporation – “The Hong Kong Triad.”
Here’s the first single from the new album from Maximo Park, “Our Earthly Pleasures” — if the rest of the album sounds like this, I’m getting it. Maximo Park – “Our Velocity.”
…and lastly, here’s the 12-inch extended mix of one of my favorite songs of the 80s, which I’ll always associate with my initial introduction to Wicca, as it was receiving heavy airplay at the time I started reading everything I could get my hands on: Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill (12″ mix)”
Hope you like this week’s selections.
As always – great selections
Every song I heard was the best yet, until I heard the next.
It seems that I’m too easily impressed?