Message from Fiona Apple:

Doing music has been a vehicle to make the friends I have made…what ends up being more important to me than any other aspect to me is when I’m singing and playing or just singing and I’m playing with people, and I’ve got such great people around me all the time, it’s really the only time ever, when I just effortlessly am not thinking of anything…I’m not thinking about anything, you know, its that whole thing that [...]

You know that a song is great when it goes from being a show’s theme music to become an classic in the American songbook.

I wanted to find the right story to write that goes with this song, as my reason for posting this song. Unfortunately nothing came to mind, and now I have exposed my true motives. For something so pervasive as love and love lost, one can feel so lonely when it (both love and love lost) happens. You feel like the luckest person in the world when you have it, and utterly languished when its gone. So music bring me back [...]

Album: Vagarosa (circa 2009)
Artist: Ceu
Label: Six Degrees Records

I’m at work listening to this song and I am utterly intoxicated with the music. Definitely a good track to take your mind off of the work and “bubuia” into another dimension.

Album: The Remix Album (circa 2004)
Artist: 4Hero
Label: Raw Canvas Record

Manu DiBango – Soul Makossa (1972)
New Bell
Label: Unidisc

This album is a musical masterpiece, however hardly named as a top contender for “must-have” records. It is a nice blend of funk, jazz, soul, and african rhythms.

Just in case you were hiding under a rock, here is a list of some albums that dropped yesterday:

“Distant Relatives,” Nas and Damian Marley
“Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers,” “Glee” Cast
“Revolutions Per Minute,” Reflection Eternal
“Bom Tempo,” Sergio Mendes
“OJ Simpson,” Guilty Simpson
“Wait for Me Remixes,” Moby
“Voyage to India (Deluxe version of the old album),” India Arie
“Brothers,”Black Keys
“This Is Happening,” LCD Soundsystem
“The Jayhawks (aka The Bunkhouse Album),” Jayhawks
“The ArchAndroid,” Janelle Monáe
“Rarities 1,” Willie Nelson
“Songs of Emotional Healing,” Cece Winans
“Exhibit B: The [...]

I heard a musician/performer once say, “why do people keep asking me when I’m going to put out a new album when the mutherf*ckers never bought the albums I already made? If they would buy those albums, it would be just as good as new.” For the last few days I have taken a break from my music voyaging and have retired to enjoying some of the oldies but goodies. Still in my retro mood, who knows when I will [...]

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