An Autumnal Beginning...

Hallo meinen Freunde,

Bright skies, but cold winds... They talk here of things blowing across Russia from Siberia. I have that slightly melancholic end of summer feeling. Not quite sure how these three tracks capture my mood, but somehow they do.

First up:

Baja - The Trashmen

I'm clearly trying to hold on to that sunny sandy feeling with this one... but something slightly mysterious about that second guitar line that comes in, after the jolly little ditty.

Next, keeping it kind of upbeat, a track from a fantastic Cambodian Cassette Archive compilation. The story behind it was the compiler came across a skip in Oakland outside a public library with a shed-load of Cambodian music on tape that they had junked. There must have been a fairly sizeable local Cambodian community in Oakland for the library to have had a devoted collection. He then went through and cherry-picked some tunes. Hardly any names for these, so it is:

Unknown (Instrumental) - Unknown

Dritte, a bit of moody drone from Seefeel, from their Too Pure days - Stereolab's initial label. This definitely hits that Autumnal button for me.

Meol - Seefeel

Pensively yours,

Thistle-Eye

Thistle-Eye