Tuesday, February 07, 2006
We Are Rolling
8:12 pm | 
Posted by
Cat |
I like music without lyrics. It says so much without words getting in the way.
Words annoy me. I love them.
I'm working my way through my CD collection. Its amazing what memories come with certain albums. Songs are like smells - they are so intimately linked with moments. Even a brief aroma evokes some sort of related emotion.
Right now I'm listening to the song 'Shacklyn Knights' (Medeski Martin & Wood) and it is bringing back the simple sheer thrill of discovery. Something like 6 years ago I was watching laaaaaate tv (brief episode of insomnia) and at something like 3am there was a music show playing a one hour set of fusion. That was the first time I heard this trio. I was determined to find more. I did a net search and discovered that my chances of finding any stuff in Australia was slim to none.
If you know the slightest thing about me you would know that situations like that make me even more determined.
Thus began the real search. I scoured CD stores until I begged FISH records to import something for me (this was before I worked there...). They don't like to import for customers. I begged, I pleaded, I bargained and bribed. They ordered it in for me.
During the 6 week wait I was wandering through a local CD shop. It would've been sometime in the year 2000. There in the acid section was 'The Dropper' sitting up front.
It was one of those moments where you are certain that the heavens open and a choir of angels sing a chord in celebration.
So there we go - in my excitement I listened to the album on random setting and Shacklyn Knights was first up.
Why am I telling this story?
Because I should be doing work.
xxx
Words annoy me. I love them.
I'm working my way through my CD collection. Its amazing what memories come with certain albums. Songs are like smells - they are so intimately linked with moments. Even a brief aroma evokes some sort of related emotion.
Right now I'm listening to the song 'Shacklyn Knights' (Medeski Martin & Wood) and it is bringing back the simple sheer thrill of discovery. Something like 6 years ago I was watching laaaaaate tv (brief episode of insomnia) and at something like 3am there was a music show playing a one hour set of fusion. That was the first time I heard this trio. I was determined to find more. I did a net search and discovered that my chances of finding any stuff in Australia was slim to none.
If you know the slightest thing about me you would know that situations like that make me even more determined.
Thus began the real search. I scoured CD stores until I begged FISH records to import something for me (this was before I worked there...). They don't like to import for customers. I begged, I pleaded, I bargained and bribed. They ordered it in for me.
During the 6 week wait I was wandering through a local CD shop. It would've been sometime in the year 2000. There in the acid section was 'The Dropper' sitting up front.
It was one of those moments where you are certain that the heavens open and a choir of angels sing a chord in celebration.
So there we go - in my excitement I listened to the album on random setting and Shacklyn Knights was first up.
Why am I telling this story?
Because I should be doing work.
xxx
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1 comments:
Iggy Pop?? Actually, I didn't know this...I now have a new mission!
But a swapparooney is definately in order!
Thanks for the info! I don't know why I'm exclaiming everything today....maybe I'm excited...