Uploading Sunday at Bob's #15 - Two Birds

We are back after skipping a week, which might happen quite often but it is for the best. For this week's playlist I tried to keep it interesting by going from one genre to the other while borrowing songs that still have some sort of common atmosphere. A bit rough, in a chill way.

We start with a song form a wonderful album that was recently re released but dates back from 1975. I did not know much about Ernest Hood but I sure am glad to have stumbled upon that piece of work. I find in it some poetry but more specifically some sharp reflection about what music is. There is something very odd about having sonor sceneries turned into music and listened to as such, I can't really put my finger on it but it would be something interesting to analyse. Maybe it is the musical pendant to a landscape painting?

"Hood remains an enigmatic and largely unknown figure—Neighborhoods was his only album, and he pressed it himself in limited quantities. He had played in jazz groups with his brother Bill and the renowned band leader and saxophonist Charlie Barnet. But in the early '50s he contracted polio, which resulted in a year-long stint in an iron lung; he relied on a wheelchair to get around. Confined to Portland, Hood started experimenting with field recordings, slowly gathering the material that would imbue Neighborhoods with such indelible sepia tones." (source)

Two weeks ago I went to see the Russian classic Amphibian Man (fun to watch after having seen The Shape of Water) and I chose to include today a piece from its soundtrack composed by Andrei Petrov. I strongly recommend the movie, not only for its music, the whole thing is an alien, the colors and ambiance just stick with you and it is difficult to make sense of it.

Then we have a nice tune of Philip Cohran (who has been featured here already) and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in which eight out of nine musicians are his sons. That album they made together is really a brass album like I like them, it makes me want to dance for hours until I bathe in my own sweat and forget if I am stepping on the roof or dancing upside down.

It goes on with a very nice tune I stole from a compilation I listen to on regular basis. It is followed by the greater of the greatest French rappers, MC Solaar. I never get tired of this dude. Seriously, listen to Qui Sème Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo and tell me its not the shit. After that comes a song I find as beautiful as funny, Melody Gardot's attempt to sing in french is extremely cute but also very on point and fit for that song. Bert Jansch was mentioned here last time and now you have an eight minutes long cut to appreciate his guitar talents. After that comes one of my favourite folk songs this time interpeted by Ramblin' Jack Elliott who lets us know he first heard it through the lips of Reverend Gary Davis. A comment on the youtube video suggests that the song was originally an old medicine show song in the 1900s (!). We finish with a gem from Bob Dylan that makes me cry everytime. The last track is for pleasure.

That's it for this week!
The check out time is 10h30, you be warned.

Enjoy,
the receptionist

Playlist:

1. Ernest Hood - At The Store
2. Andrei Petrov - Song from The Amphibian Man
3. Kelan Philip Cohran & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spin
4. Demba Camara Et Son Groupe - Exhumation Folklorique
5. MC Solaar - Et DIeu Créa L’Homme
6. Melody Gardot - Les Etoiles
7. Bert Jansch - Instrumental Medley 1964
8. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Cocaine
9. Bob Dylan - Love Sick
10. Harlem Gem - More Than You Can Wish