ACROBATICS EVERYDAY

haven’t kept up with posting…but that’s about to change!
so i can’t stop listening to african music.

here’s an amazing record by a gentleman named saka aquaye and his ensemble entitled “ghana high-life & other popular music.” it was recorded in 1969.

[saka aquaye - ghana high-life & other popular music]

it’s compelling, totally fun, and dancable music. i loveeee it.

in other news - great shows today and yesterday. peter walker was a TREAT to host, and religious girls always bring the jam. thanks to death by panda erik and sprawl out for rounding out the bill with their respectively awesome brands of rock.

i also wanna extend a hand to all the folks who come out regularly to acrobatics everyday shows. it means the world to me and i hope you are all having as much fun as i am.

i am beyond excited for our shows in august. they will rule so hard.

awesome right? and then.

i feel like indian jewelry’s live show could be like the today version of the velvet underground 1966.

AND THAO!

all killer no filler.

check it, see you soon.

SO much good music from mali. this post is to highlight a new favorite.

Toumani Diabaté is a dude who plays a stringed instrument called the kora. I don’t know what it is, but it is big. It sounds like a lute and a harp and a dulcimer and a lot of other things but in the hands of Mr. Diabaté it sounds like perfect. This is definitely among the finest music in the world and I really love it a LOT. Here is a jam from his first album, Kaira, which came out twenty years ago.

[Toumani Diabaté - jarabi]

Here he blows minds in Brooklyn.

been a swell swell week. full of good music and good laughs. still spinning THE REFRAIN by extra life on repeat, which i posted up a couple days ago. i love it to death, please check it out if you haven’t yet. here is them on myspace, too.

super cool AE show next tuesday. check the bands out, it will be 100% a blast. what is better than surf guitar sounds?

here’s a tune i dig lots. i wish i was there in 1952 to witness 4′33. of course, by putting myself in such a theoretical scenario, i have to imagine that in 1952 i would be hip enough to know about john cage and all the multi-media art pouring out of new york city in the 50s. probably not!
[john cage - story]

and for kicks, a great video you may have already seen.

some people’s creativity and patience is so incredibly humbling.