Sunday at Bob's #35 - Tambour de Ville

Hello everybody
And welcome back
Sit comfortably
Ears open, fingers cracked

For this post shall be
Unlike the others
In its entirety
Written with flowers

Once too many
Have I apologized
For delaying my duty
Disorganized

So for this time
I have decided
The article should rhyme
For it to be broadcasted

If it is the curse of lyricists
I pretend to write about, in admiration
To match meaning and aesthetics
In songs of their creation

Then, to be fully forgiven
I have been told by a witch
This blog shall endure the same
Or forever perish

Without further ado
And to shorten the torment
Let me present to you
Today’s playlist (fuck it)

We have Glenn Jones for the beggining
Because it is out of the question
To leave here without hearing
The Last Passenger Pigeon

After him you will hear or will have heard
Jean C. Roché and Pierre Palengat recording
A blackbird
Often mistaken with a starling

I shall take a break to congratulate
Myself. If I don’t who will?
For having found on the internet
This plaisir tranquille

We go on with William Penn
Oh! that story is good
If only it wasn’t such a pain
To tell it the way I should

Gods! I beg of you
Release me from this spell
And if there is anything I can do…
No? alright well

In June 1978
was held an exhibition
I heard it was great
At the Renwick Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithonian Institution

It was called The Harmonious Craft: American Musical Instruments
It included unique and esoteric handcrafted…
Musical instruments
With them, an album was made

From that album was taken
A song that never ceases to amaze
I listen to it every now and then
Reflections in a Plastic Vase

Il fait dimanche quand tu souris
And your smile I rob
What better tribute can there be
From something called Sunday at Bob

Il fait dimanche et tous les jours
Each and everytime you smile to me
C’est la revanche de l’amour
Is quoting a form of trickery?

Then we have the kind of song I live for
William Ferris documented
A musician from Leland and his guitar
Singing a love song he created

Sometimes Art only needs for understanding
Like a cake needs a mouth to be eaten
Eyes for watching, ears for hearing
Sometimes the rational brain is a burden

Is it because we need it to make things
That it wants to be part of their experience
That it wants to explain the feelings
Which it cannot taste in silence?

Let’s leave here
these considerations for now
For from the album Slither, Soar & Disappear
Is taken the next song and… wow

What an album
Josh Kimbrough
What an album
Bravo

Witch? Gods?
My mothertongue is not English
And I am runing out of words…
It might be tough to finish

No?
Sure?
No?
Sure...

Let’s see
With who the playlist continues
With Ikue Asazaki
And her heart ripping blues

Followed by an amazing
Though ended abruptly
Piece of bottle blowing
By Louis Dotson from Mississipi

Which itself is followed
By dancable music from Ellada
When it is so complicated to go abroad
How heart warming is Laika

Mi mou to malonete
You rascal you
Nous irons dancer tout l’été
To koritsatki mou

We stay in Greece the mystic and the jolly
With the intense and disturbing
Solo Tsifteteli
And Giorgos Mangas’ heavy breathing

The two next songs are the result
Of an endless analogy
Bothering me as an adult
Between Berber music of my childhood and music from Ethiopie*

The song Soussia
Refering to a Berber woman from the Sous region
Offers this particular enigma
For which I have no solution

It begins as a regular berber song
Pentatonic, inviting
Only to end in arabic fashion
In the manner of songs played at weddings

What to say about Mohamed Sulieman?
And the wonderful music of Sudan
I first heard with Abu Obaida Hassan
A most fascinating musician

To end on the same note as we started
And by the way this has been interesting
We finish with Jack Rose’s inspired
And beautiful guitar playing

I can’t believe this has been done
But that’s it for today’s playlist
Oh, and by 10h30 you should be gone
The receptionist

*pronounced in French

Playlist

1. Glenn Jones - The Last Passenger Pigeon
2. Jean C. Roché/Pierre Palengat - Merle noir
3. William Penn - Reflections in a Plastic Vase
4. Henri Salvador - Il fait dimanche
5. Leland Musician - Darlin' Why You Treat Me So?
6. Josh Kimbrough - Glowing Treetops
7. Ikue Asazaki - Ahagari
8. Louis Dotson - Bottle Blowing
9. Μυ μου το μαλονετε -
10. Giorgos Mangas - Solo Tsifteteli
11. Aster Aweke - Tchewata
12. Various Artists - Soussia
13. Mohamed Sulieman - Haatuff
14. Jack Rose - Tree In The Valley