Pod 01: “First One Out The Door”

Hello everybody,

Why you’re just in time for my first ever podcast which might not happen a second time (maybe a third,we’ll see).

Boy do you ever want to!… subscribe to the eashfacast (it has a page of its own, there was no other way)

Or download the mp3

Playlist

Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko – 26th Floor
Bacanal Intruder – Jazzy Rendered
The Third Wave – Wave’s Lament
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Speakervision
Y Pants – Favourite Sweater
Danny Breaks – Astral Vibes zoostrumental
Zahara – Con Las Ganas

Pretty good for a Sunday – except the Favourite Sweater, that’s Saturday night’s praise bit.

UPDATE

I’ve tweaked the feedburner feed for eashfa, so it now should include mp3s I post delivered directly to your RSS reader. Eashfa feed w/mp3s, soon enough

Rocketotthesky – Neolullaby

When Jenny Hval (aka Rockettothesky) tagged the music on her myspace as trance/ a cappella/ shoegaze, she must have had no other option but to settle for what was pre-defined. Trance must be short for “transcendental” or “puts you in a trance”, shoegaze is more like stargaze or seagaze, and a cappella is something she slides in and out of. Words have been made up to describe this music. Words that you can only hear in other songs, and only if you listen. So try listening to Cocteau Twins and you’ll see the spirit of Rocketotthesky.

Poetry is how she talks and writes, as far as I can see on her Myspace, and she leaves unattended bits and pieces of unmanicured life, hard to explain, as if she got a certain feeling and then immediately scribbled something on a napkin in her mind, next to a doodle of Amelia Earhart. Most of us would shake off that feeling but she holds on to it for a while, and starts singing to it.

Jenny’s from Norway, has been signed to Trust Me Records earlier this year, and, can anyone try and pre-order the album To Sing You Apple Trees without feeling like a dufus for not knowing Norwegian? To Sing You Apple Trees is the fruit of many a summer day and night spent in a “dungeon”, as Jenny puts it (aka studio), and she claims to have thoroughly enjoyed it. Jan Martin Smørdal and Andreas Paleologos are also part of the band since then. Boy oh boy, I can’t wait to hear this.

Rockettothesky – A Flock Of Chestshire Cats (demo) mp3

Rockettothesky – A Cute Lovesong Please mp3

PS Check out Jenny’s writing on singingwhale, where she discusses consonants, vowels, choirs of clitoris-crayons. The usual.

I was thinking hip hop week

But for that you'll have to check back later because I am all about LP Funk right now… Yeah yeah! I'm listening to Aesop Rock but LP Funk was looping on my music player beforehand. Lucas Papaelias as his folks might call him, is a-thumpin his guitar with an instinct for unmanufactured pop most artists can only dream of. The pop-appeal that Brooklyn Girls effectuates might leave some other tracks blemished, but it's only a minor dent; and they grow on you like fungus in a poorly ventilated space. However you gotta love this guy. He puts out a record and trying to buy it is like chasing the white rabbit.

Catch him at his weekly showcase at Jack's Stir Brew Coffee > 138 W 10th St. (btw 6 & 7 Ave), NY and ask him how much do you have to harass a guy to let you pay for his music.

LP Funk – Brooklyn Girls mp3

Note: This mp3 has been trimmed from a podcast, that may be so criminal of me. If you hear the 's' at the beginning congrats your hearing is just fine, but if you ignore it you'll then proceed to enjoying the song.

official LP Funk site

myspace

In other news stuff – is everybody going solo these days? Girls get pregnant, guys proclaim artistic independence. Thom Yorke, now James Dean

And you can pre-order Lily Allen. It's about the music, I still love her, and y'all are starting to act like hype is degrading. The bitchisms begin.

Ramona Córdova: twee-gypsy

Not that that's how he'd describe himself.

Ramona is Ramón Córdova's (pronounced Cordoba) stage name and a mighty serene stage he pontificates (it's actually his grandmother's name). An eleven track musical amusement – that's his description of The Boy Who Floated Freely. The boy named Giver finds himself on a deserted island that at least has a gypsy bar. They welcome the stranded being, and here's his reply:

Ramona Córdova – Giver's Reply mp3 (recommended, totally)