horsemouth is up. howard has put up the latest golden glow (12.12.21 with tracks chosen by horsemouth) but horsemouth is experiencing problems getting it to play. as a pleasant surprise he discovers swan arcade's babylon is fallen lurking on the end of his previous mix (after vaksine! by sanba yo). ok for some reason it just started working.
so the staple singers into gila (a popul vuh folk offshoot apparently - thanks sean).
obiero by ayub ogada (horsemouth saw him him the one time playing supporting jah wobble down in islington). it's a great performance. obiero into greetings to saud (pharoah sanders in churchy mode pianist joe bonner does a great job in the drone).
ok now he's hitting some of howard's selections what's been coming... or maybe it's dorthia (the girl andrew minty recommended, horsemouth hasn't listened to all of it yet). ah-ha spirit of the water by camel (prog giants) then pentangle rain and snow (howard seems to have found the live version - which is good).
next the instrumental for one love by nas - now this is a push button mixtape put together by q-tip using a track by the heath brothers which itself uses an mbira (or thumb piano). you may remember that track from a previous compilation. it stops and starts. now a piece horsemouth doesn't know (ali farka toure plus flute? probably further east knowing howard's taste - daymallah majid bekkas).
karen O and willie nelson's take on queen's under pressure. ok so it's karaoke but to horsemouth this opens up the lyrics (which are so good).
flash of the spirit was a very influential record for horsemouth - an african percussion ensemble farafina and loads of ambient music bods (john hassell, brian eno, daniel lanois). when horsemouth was in a band with a sampler he sampled it to fuck. next up kathy smith's awesome travel in a circle (or richie havens' record label). then ellen mcilwhone (of no fear) covering jack bruce's weird of hermiston (see having a woman singing I am going to a wedding (dressed in black) is just a more interesting proposition. (again a live version).
ok what's this? october song the incredible string band horsemouth. it has something of a song for ireland about it. next up lani hall doing love song (horsemouth finds this song a real heartbreaker). then into bonnie koloc's the wind on the water (that's a voice another heartbreaker).
one by howard that horsemouth that horsemouth doesn't recognise (sounds like t-rex so it's probably devandra banhart) then morning final by the blue oyster cult and a nice transition into you got it, you'll get it by herbie hancock and the headhunters. the berimbau of the headhunters going into the mo chara of michael o'shea. (er. and swan arcade again).
today six months since horsemouth last got jabbed.
this morning horsemouth goes to get jabbed. not up in walthamstow (like on previous occasions) but just round the corner. it's still a bit dark out to work out what the weather is doing (grey skies opines horsemouth). it's six months since his last jab - he'd booked it just before the government changed its advice so you could get the jab five months after your previous jab (this may have left him a bit vulnerable and under protected). and once it was booked there was only one or two weeks difference in re-booking it.
the latest variant is the prince of re-infecting people who have had it before and of infecting people whether they have been jabbed or not. allegedly getting his booster in is about the best thing horsemouth can do. horsemouth plans to go and hide out in the country for a bit. he'll test before he goes (the better not to kill his parents).
ok so he's finished his coffee. now it's time for the museli.
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