musique française et américaine de la même époque et d'il y a longtemps

last night more staying in bed to keep warm. more gialli (the plural of giallo). seven deaths in the cat's eyes (1973). a haunted house/ mad relatives gothico-giallo by antonio margheriti featuring jane birkin as a young ingenue and serge gainsburg as a wisecracking detective (dubbed into a scottish accent). 

today's music an engagingly speedy (3/2 feel) version of erik satie's gnossienne no.1 by french guitarist (and ukulele player) cyril lefebvre. born in 1947, died 7 april 2012, he started his solo career after leaving the underground band maajun in the early 1970s, exploring left-field folklore and blues for an unclassifiable mixture of styles documented on 3 solo LPs. for example his musique française et américaine de la même époque et d'il y a longtemps features a version of debussy's golliwoggs cakewalk. 

there was a lot of interest amongst french composers for ragtime music and among parlour piano players for the new style, notably debussy's général lavine – eccentric. horsemouth recorded a version of gnossienne no.1  a long time ago which uses a greek rhythm (he has it sitting round here somewhere). 

later horsemouth is supposed to be undertaking a walk with andrew minty (round hackney wick probably). he will take a covid test before he does (he has a winter cough, and seeing as he was out being naughty at claudia's 50th birthday party he would now like to reassure himself he is not a fully functioning typhoid mary). 

he has bought a £1 supermarket diary for 2022 in an A6 kind of size. while there he checked his finances - broadly he is spending the rent, this bodes well for his ability to schlep it out in the seaside towns (assuming he survives the black death).