Tuesday, February 20, 2007

If Heaven is a Bar, What Does God Drink?


Laying in my beddie last night experiencing unknown pleasures with Pierre Schaeffer (who has two tomes that are untranslated in English, why?), I realized that his is music I need to keep in the dark, no candles or nightlights allowed. But what would happen if I owned candles? Well, then I would own a lounge. And what to play in that lounge? Certainly not Pierre and any of his acolytes. No, in Drugula's Den all music must be red velvet cake, coating your throat in a frosting that no liquid will ever totally dislodge. Not for tonight, at least.


Swamp Children would be there. Well, at least Swamp Children of So Hot would be, but I wouldn't mind their subsequent mutations to come along for the journey as well. They're the cream in between an antena/a certain ratio oreo.
Swamp Children-Secret Whispers
Swamp Children-Taste What's Rhythm


You know the first time your mom let you out of her sight and you could roam free in the grass for 2 minutes in complete bliss? Syzygys was there. My dad loves these dodes. He gets, like, REALLY excited when they come on.
Syzygys-Pastoral Cha-Cha
Syzygys-Lotus Rain


Since it's My lounge, Tony Williams would be played on the hour, every hour. Dude totally changed the way I conceived of rhythm and drumming. I was going to save this track for some type of Tony Williams MegaPost (maybe on his birth/deathday), but in my desire to flee from the confines of those French sonic laboratories and plunge into the sweet embrace of my cave (sans animals, sigh), I couldn't pass this one up. One night last summer, I was supposedly the designated driver for my boss so that she could make her grand re-entry on the "LA art scene" (at least there was free tecate everywhere), and when I picked her up, this was playing. And for a moment, things got kinda awkward as I think she thought I was trying to be seductive (which just doesn't happen). Anywho, stupid anecdotes aside, hers the Williams backing up the shiny trombone of Grachan Moncur III. When this jam get played, everyone gets soaked.
Grachan Moncur III-Air Raid