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Today, someone mentioned to me that no one sings Love as well as the French, while citing Serge Gainsbourg with his muse, Jane Birkin, as an example. I nodded, approvingly, spotting the delicious irony of Jane Birkin being, in fact, British. She still sings Love beautifully, though.

Artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot devotes himself to transforming the visual world into sound. Underneath you can see an example of precisely that. To tell you the truth, if I didn’t know any better I would believe Frank Zappa had reincarnated as a bird.

A take of recent dabbling with audio synthesis using my music workstation. A very linear and somehow naive piece, no doubt, yet good as anything else as far as exercises go. The most original part is the use of some audio samples from TV, which can be heard in the background, but only after processing them almost beyond recognition. Can’t take the raw stuff, anyway.

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Today, walked out of bed proud like a giant. Then, in one of those life’s little twists, something seemingly inconspicuous made feelings long thought dead and buried boil to the surface. And how small I started feeling.

Sometimes, but just sometimes, we yearn for that special pill.

A little celebration with a favorite Peter Gabriel song, Solsbury Hill. A commemoration of high-spiritedness, in this joyful day of mine where the last remaining shackles of a previous life were broken, and a personal vow honored, all in one. A salute to open fields, multiple paths, and immense possibilities.

One of my favorite Jazz tracks, from The Dave Brubeck Quartet. This particular piece is from 1964, and it is the last song of the Jazz Impressions of Japan LP.  Woke up with it in my head, and I’m hopeful it will serve me well during the day.

A somewhat fast paced interpretation of Erik Saties’ Gnossienne Nr. 1, to liven up the day. And besides, as Erik Satie once said to a critic, tempo is set by the mood on the interpreter.

A little song for the weekend. While My Heart is Still Beating, from Roxy Music, in a live version at the Bête Noire euro tour 88/89. The sound of uncertain shifting chords and sparse percussion letting Brian Ferry’s voice float as cool as glass.

A live at rehearsal version of Nine Inch Nails track Head Down, from The Slip album. This album was released free of charge in 2008, and you can still download it next to a high quality PDF with artwork and credits here.