Bathroom Music 2

Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell - Americana, album review

Pastoral Deception

When I first started listening to this I found it a comforting musical landscape of familiar songs defining America through this: a sense of past and present held together by, largely, the harmonica as a continuing, rooting reassurance of knowing who and what we are. It has, however, become more of a genteel pastoral whitewash in the current context of the President of the United States suggesting the injecting of disinfectant as a possible cure for Covid-19 and then backtracking on the absurdity of this by claiming, absurdly, he was being simply satirical. Framework is everything: music so soothing in its remembrance of an assumed certainty [in this case, a songbook of sorts] – through these tunes we recall instantly and they thus sound like a bedrock of continuance – are actually a deceit, the pastoral a lie as veil over the new wild west of political gunfights at the Not OK Corral.

A shame. History ruined by the present – ironic with Trump, as similar, constantly trying to rewrite his perpetual fuckups as they happen.

Not the fault of these fine musicians.

Food Music 14

Monarch - Beyond the Blue Sky, album review

Little Bit of This and That, and All Good

A little bit Hawkwind; a little bit Wishbone Ash; a little bit Audience, a little bit Caravan – quite a bit old school then, and quite a bit enjoyable in times of looking back and being nostalgic about, well you know, let’s have a little bit of that again…

Into the Distance Music 101

Goat Disco - Instrumental Jam

A cool jam from:

Dean Ferris - Drums; Den Elliott - Bass; Lee Ferris - Guitar

Liking the film too.