If you are trying to wreck my life, why don't you at least smile and have a good time about it?

OKay! I am a little late on this one myself. I can just hear so many people saying, now, that it sounds like so and so. It may just sound like those guys, but I can think of five others he sounds like too. Shall we give up now? I'm not going to do that because this guy simply rocks.

Brad Sucks started somewhere about 2002. I could be wrong. If you care that much check out the Wikipedia article on him. Brad claims he totally promoted himself by making his music public and giving it away on-line. Is that why I like him. I'm not sure, but I think he has been onto something and I have been missing out. Since there is so much on him already I won't blab on (i want to get back to rockin' out!) other than that this is his most recent second release; you'll want to check out the first one too, i am sure. Yeah, he sounds like Stevie Miller too. So? Starlite Mints' wit and so much more. Being Canadian might be the most disturbing thing though.

On my birthday I caught a train to Thessaloniki

Kostas Vomvolos was the first cool artist I found on Jamendo or the first one I felt was worth downloading for offline enjoyment and to have on my computer. His web site says he composed music for over 80 theater plays working with state,municipal and fringe theater groups in Greece,UK and Ireland, including many Greek tragedies,musicals and new opera pieces, so it is no wonder you could quite easily imagine yourself viewing a Wim Wenders film while listening to Vomvolos. It may just be that he is an accordion and qanoun player, although I have know idea why I say that. His music is more like one of Wender's earlier afairs--kind of long and drawn out and maybe you will never get there, but that's ok; you have nowhere you are really going anyway. This stuff is great for those inside days you can't go outside to play, so you find a book, study or just make a cup of tea or coffee and want to watch the rain fall outside your window.

He has since put up new compositions that are just as fantastic, but I like offering the one I first found. So, here's your boarding pass....have a swell trip...

ミルクティー (Milk Tea)

UA is my Japan. Thriving past a lot of what most would call J-Pop she had often been described as eccentric(the only word the Japanese seem to know for someone who is just a little different to everyone else here). UA isn't actually what most Japanese listen to, but everyone of many age groups know her name and some can recall a song title. For me she is the temperament and hue of rose colored sunglasses I like to view Japan in....(to be continued).

ミルクティー (Milk Tea) 1998
水色 (Color of Water) UA mentions that she first sang this song in Osaka--her roots



ランドリーより愛をこめて (From the Laundry Come Feelings of Love)
数え足りない夜の足音(Counting Isn't Enough Sound of Footsteps of the Night)



UA -- Long Play ~45 mins. of various UA

Updated Post on Vate

Corrected influence work reference to Exopia.

Eminent Somniloquy

Usual attempts at reviewing ambient music come across as really stupid to me. I usually stop reading them once the writer starts using words like cosmic, transcendental or meditative. Yeah, it's usually quit, has a slow shifting form and doesn't cause a lot of raucous.

I have heard a lot of so-called ambient music that I think is bad. This is quite often the case because it doesn't keep to the form of being quit and to a nice floating form. Ambient Frequencies, a compilation of different ambient artists, works for me. If I want to listen to something termed "ambient" I want something to listen to while I am studying or just thinking and want something to influence the mood of the room without taking over as the main attraction from what I actually need to be concentrating on. I think this does that. Do I really need to give some over-the-top Kantian metaphysical critic for this that connects me with a bunch of stock-raving mad dogmatic new-ageist yogis just to mellow out while i study?

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Brigitte Fontaine

When she gets braught up with French I know, the response is either she's brilliant or she's a c**t. I don't think she's concerned about the latter of the opitions. In fact, she's reveled in the idea-- Conne. I think she's brilliant. C'est normal!

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D'ailleurs

Sardonic Americana; There Were Cotton Candy for clouds

Americana like Patsy Cline and Jeanne Pruett. Kristy Kruger billed as alternative country won me over by her humorous sardonic Americana. Found while searching for Lucinda Williams on the hell myspace is.