15/18 - The Company I Keep Is Not Corporate Enough

Video-based list to save what words I've got left for my creative work.

James Yorkston and The Athletes - St. Patrick

Three weeks deep into this Athens residency, the afternoon siesta is an indispensable part of each day. For it, I turn my old 'Sleep' playlist on random, and thus I refamiliarise myself with many an old melancholy singer-songwriter favourite. Like this tune, that feels like it's been in my music library forever and ever.

Kamasi Washington - Street Fighter Mas

St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco

The Carters - APESHIT

Pusha T - If You Know You Know

14/18 - It's Raining In Athens

I am in Greece for two months and find precious little time for blogging. However, this accumulation of songs and moods must find an outlet:

Azure Ray - Raining In Athens

It is. And while it is a relief in this heat, it also happens to coincide with my heart breaking over news from Glasgow. So, rarely has the exquisite sadness of Azure Ray fitted so painfully perfect.

Slipping away
without falling apart

Angelique Kidjo - Listening Wind

So, the always excellent queen from Benin (check out her classic cover of Summertime if you aren't already familiar) has recorded an album, covering the entire Remain In Light by Talking Heads. And this, the best track, is an absolute killer cover by any standard. And again, it also seems to capture some of the sorrow, tinged with impotent anger, I feel as I see pictures of The Mack burning.

Attarazat Addahabia - Unknown

Speaking of excellent covers: the old Ludwig Van never sounded more funky. I've been obsessed with Moroccan Für Elise since Markus played it in his radio show a month ago.

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon

Seriously. Athenian women...

Al Massrieen - Sah

And just as I was writing this up, a moped smashed into a car with a bang just outside the studio window. No one was hurt. Sah!