Kaki King here,been listening to this particular bit endlessly while I collect my thoughts for the journey that is going to be Ladakh.
I can't wait to hear the new vibes.
more about our journey here : http://bit.ly/vsAlS

come,play!

well,this track was just screaming to be shared.divya,sukhbir,gear up for some serious infinite looping,this will hit home some time or the other.

this song has a strain,maybe the way he lets his voice sway at the end of the verses,like he's just sat through a conversation which went nowhere and came out to breathe and sat by the street.and lit a cigarette. and it is evening.and he didn't know because he was indoors. and he wonders why he didn't come out earlier.and the birds fly home overhead. a shoal of fish.
he watches them inspite of himself.
forever mozart.
beyond the end,is nothing.

how many paths must I stray away from so I don't have to see you again.
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you from the attic in the hill with the honey jars, you,of the cocker spaniel dreams,
of the home on the twin hills,of the horses..
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you in the clothes store trying on the clothes I knew you'd fit just by seeing your photographs, the clothes which would have fit thAt loved one. you were that loved one, and you've never met me,but I knew,I knew you fit better into the frames I was being rammed into..do you know your photographs are still up there?
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and you from the streets of Pune, you of the scrawled on wooden table tops,you of the war time tomb stones,you,you who had no questions.
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and what about you of the wheat in the football fields,do you know about the film I shot in those same wheat fields?will you ever see it?
and you and you..

I don't mourn you
but you are parts of me still walking solitary ways
how many paths must I stray away from so I don't have to see you again.

photograph courtesy:sukhbir singh sagoo

this is a musician called Davy Graham,known to be a folk guitarist in the sixties in England,the music really breaks through so many genres other than just folk.
and you just can't stop tapping the foot to it,goddamit.lol
I've read some f his albums were ' a mix of acoustic blues, Romanian dance tunes, Irish pipe tunes, songs from South Africa and pieces by Bach.
He is said to have inspired Jimmy Page and Paul Simon.
Davy Graham faded somehow into oblivion.
Can't find his music quite anywhere.

This is from a Portland, Oregon duo
Talkdemonic - Dusty Fluorescent/ Wooden Shelves,I love the name of the song....lol...

The artist up there is Shintaro Kago.More on him on the blog in a bit

the fish
the monk
meaning to put this up for too long now

violins from chennai anyone?

flatlands

my shoot dates are near.
this one makes me brush my teeth and gEt OUT of the HOOOUUUUSE

norwegians singing in japanese
i have discovered cornelius.
he's japanese and gives his music out for free..lol!

play this loud
or from an ipod
not from a laptops's inbuilt speakers.
follow the bass guitar
the bass guitar is talented,she shows you how to listen

the woman.just the woman's voice.

"I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could..."
kadinsky.

hear the jhankaar beats anyone with the cello!
lol...

the original
ost divine intervention.

this song would be how a phone conversation between isacco and me would sound like.lol...

rodrigo and gabriela...

this is what this space listens to round the clock currently.

when i found the visualiser at the the sardar sarovar dam on the river Narmada.lol....

if you don't tell me,i don't give more of a kind.
so friends,fellow countrymen..sing out what you want,man!
no more 'very good,what fun!',let's make this organic!
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talk .

this piece saw me through a caustic time in the beginning of the year.it was cold.i wasn't allowing any person within 5 feet.i'd spend hours,nights listening to just this tune.then i went to kachchh,and the desert made life livable again.
erik satie is a friend of john cage.

the 21 tigers dug this out of the streets of portugal for our stash of music.
be patient.watch out for the 4th beats.

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i'll see you at the finish.
the tiger and i love racing to this,see?
i get visuals of our ride drifting by on the orange streetlit roads of Marine Drive,all windows up.when you've still got 4 hours left before you'll have to crash,and the guy you trust the most in the world whipping the car through the flyovers and the traffic,you don't want much else in the world.
lol....

whenever i listen to this song,i remember pune.
not that i heard it there first,but yes i listened to it in the city later.it's one of those songss you want to try out like it's new in a fresh place,just to see what it would do this time to your head!
it reminds me of a slight drizzle,chai on the stairs near the church at the centre of town with a friend who was as crazy about the opening guitar strains as i was...lol..

super band i chanced upon. wanted to kick myself when i found out they've been up for some time now.anyway better now than in another year!
...i love the dark floating images of harlequins the piano playing in this song always manages to evoke in my head.
that,and memories of simon and garfunkel.

yes,that's the song's name.
fits good.

not seen the film yet,though.

i believe we have a simply superb tapestry of music here in india.this is an exploration of a raasa with hindustani and carnatic percussion with a south indian violinist who just can't manage to cover his 'south indian-ness'!the violin is just so terribly sentimental!lol...

i have all the 9 raasas.

focus on a blur of light in the distance.
keep running keep running.
works brilliant in the rain!

this song is called 'virar fast'.
that's a local train in mumbai,india...for all those who don't know.