more...

... more running... more tunes:

• GUTS: Sweet Love [2008]
• Savages: You're My Chocolate [2008]
• Me & You: Arnie vs. Ghandi [2008?]
• Odjbox: Blue Goose [2012]
• The Rwenzoris: Handsome Boy (E Wara) [1974]
• The Mixed Grill: A Brand New Wayo [1979]
• Chicago Gangsters: I Choose You [1975]
• Christian Bruhn: Wetten, Dass...? [1979]
• Juan Demonio: Es Casa [1975]
• Jerzy Milian: Gacek [1975]

KEEPING GOING

Still no proper personal take on all that's happened on this blessed (soon to be abandoned) island since that fucking referendum. It's coming. But PROJECT CATALUNYA is keeping us busy here: a cathartic clearing out of loft-bound possessions of zero utility - selling some stuff, giving, giving some stuff away, dumping other stuff; making arrangements for removals; paperwork, paperwork, paperwork; arranging leaving parties and drinks that map sensibly to the complex Venn diagam of our overlapping social lives; doing a couple of weeks of paid work not so much for the modest money as for the useful experience it provides ahead of the thing we're going to be doing for a living up in those Catalan hills.

There is still time to run and jump and lift etc., albeit less time than I'd like. A recent session was greased on its tiring way by:   

• Chemise: She Can't Love You [1982]
• Skyy: Show Me The Way [1983]
• Ahmed Fakroun: Nisyan [1977]
• Chakachas: Stories [1972]
• The Boris Gardner Happening ft. Leslie Butler: Ghetto Funk [1973]
• Kokolo: Soul Power [2008]
• Hülya Süer - Şeker Oğlan(Kozmonot Rework)[2015]*
• Ihsan Al-Munzer: Sari Aghtchik [??]**

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*This seems to be a pretty radical 2015 remix ("rework", if you will) of a song by a Turkish Singer, Hülya Süer, about whom I have found precious little information. Various photos of her dotted around online appear to be have been taken over many years. Judging by her makeup and hairstyle in the photo accompanying mentions of this track, I'm inclined to guess the original recording was made some time in the 1970s. 

**This track was recorded in Lebanon some time in the 1970s. I don't have more specific info than that.

ANGRY SLAMMING

BREXIT REFERENDUM: an angry, exasperated, worried this is my england response IS brewing. But it may take a few more days to emerge. As PROJECT CATALUNYA gathers pace, a third trip to the area has turned out to be necessary, and is set to take place later this coming week. This time the focus will be on confirming a temporary home to serve as a reasonably comfortable base for the first 6-12 months of our new life abroad. But I'm still managing to have a go at working off the excess weight, firming up the excess softness and doing something about a long legacy of under-addressed puniness. The day after the referendum, I spent a fiery hour with my perceptive PT, who wisely selected a session consisting largely of slamming things onto other things very hard. Cathartic. A little. Not enough, of course. Left to my own devices a day or so later, I moved about a bit to a funny old soundtrack: nostalgia for my clubbing days at the front end, followed by a couple of oddities recorded in the Soviet Union of all places:

• Frankie Knuckles: Your Love [1986]
• D.O.P.: Future Le Funk [1992]
• Saint Etienne: Only Love Can Break Your Heart [1991]
• Rozalla: Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) [1991]
• CeCe Peniston; Finally [1991]
• Andrei Petrov: Mondniy Tanec [1977]
• Aleksander Zatsepin: Tanec Shamana [1974]