34/13 - As We Grow Out of Our Bruises

These are the sounds of a week of pure leisure. Rarely do I feel this relaxed and guiltless over my relaxation. Tunes from a hammock:

Hanne Hukkelberg - Searching

Norwegian jazz-singer turned experimental pop-troubadour. A headphones-album, perfect for bustrips home from the day's swimming excursions.

Lambchop - The New Cobweb Summer

One of my all-time favourite lazy summer albums. It feels like this can only be properly listened to in a garden full of sun-drowsy insects.

Taken By Trees - Anna

When in Sweden, listen to swedes, recorded in Pakistan.

Yusef Lateef - Love Theme From Spartacus

So elegant it melts in your ears like a mango-sorbet on your tongue.

Fela Kuti - Zombie

I watched Music Is The Weapon and spent the whole next day blasting Fela in the garden.
This tune is awesome for so many musical reasons (Fela's saxophone-workouts spring to mind), but there's also not very many single tracks which have had such an immense political and personal impact. From Allmusic:

Since the groove was so absolutely contagious, it took the nation by storm: People in the street would put on a blank stare and walk with hands affront proclaiming "Zombie!" whenever they would see soldiers. If "Zombie" caught the attention of the populous it also caught the attention of the authority figures – this would cause devastating personal and professional effects as the Nigerian government came down on him with absolute brute force not long after the release of this record.

The brute force referred to is the 1000-man-strong military storming of his compound during which his studio, instruments and tapes were burnt, his head was fractured, and his 82-year-old activist mother was thrown out a first-storey window – later dying from her injuries.
How something so horrible can come from something so groovy is hard to understand, but if a single one of your songs indirectly leads to your mother's death, your own exile from your mothercountry, and the formation of a new political party, and you still go on recording even more politically charged music, well... you are pretty fucking serious about music.