somethings not quite right
its a bank holiday Monday and the sun is shining brightly - in fact it has been for most of May - warm sunny & hot - whoever told us Canada was cold was having a laugh - even more amusing is the reports we keep hearing of torrential rain & downright miserable weather back home
(at this juncture i should point out that this laptop doesnt have a functioning comma key - so apologies for the bad punctuation)
well the only thing to ponder now is what to do today - yesterday we scrambled up Mount Yamnuska not right to the top i should stress - it was hard work with a 19mo old baby in a back pack - but the views were wonderful - i will post some pictures later
Saturday was partly spent at the Canmore childrens festival - my daughter loved the clowns & the spachoppers - wasnt so sure about the bizarre fairy type creature on stilts who semed to invoke terror in every kid under 10 years old
we think we have sold our house in London - i wont say too much cos I dont want to jinx it - but we are a step closer to buying a house over here
i have caught up this last week or so on my music listening & have a handful of albums which i really dig
these are
Espers - Espers ii
Richard James - The Seven Sleepers Den
Mojave 3 - Puzzles For You
King Biscuit Time - Black Gold
Neil Young - Living With War
The Espers album is a real gem - ancient folk tunes dusted with modern electronica & effects - truly captivating. Richard James used to be part of Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and here he presents a stunning folky album - think Nick Drake folk rather than the trad. hey nonny type though. Mojave 3 seemed to have peeled off several layers of the swoonsome country ambience that were the hallmarks of prior albums & this LP has a rockier side - with some songs charging by at express train rate - its all good in my book - Neil Halstead has hardly put a foot wrong since his Slowdive days & deserves more attention than he & the band ever get. King Biscuit Time is the new-ish project for ex Beta Band lead singer Steve Mason - its a heady mixture of beggy melancholia & dancehall riddims - i particularly love the first track C I Am 15 - where after 3 minutes or so of a lilting indie tune dancehall MC Topcat blasts in with a witheringly sarcastic denouncement of those brothers in blood - Mr Bush & Mr Blair. And - talking of politics I leave the best til last grumpy old Canuck Neil Young has issued forth with an album full of hate for the odious Bush regime - no matter that Youngs political judgement has deserted him in the past - this is heartfelt stuff & while it would be too optimistic to see it as another nail in the coffin of Bush & his axis of evil - the fact that is has shifted enogh units to reach the upper echelons of the US charts shows plenty of people buy into his message. There is hope yet.
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