We have had the awards ceremony for Pun Fun 2 and the latest leg of our tour of the Americas already this week, and there are a couple of chunky posts in the pipeline. So I'm keeping this brief and sweet, like a palate cleanser between courses.
While I was browsing on last Bandcamp Friday I stumbled across the work of Artem Bemba, a singer-songwriter from Ukraine. His has put out a lot of music but I was particularly taken by his 2019 album "Harvest" from which the track below (which roughly translates as "There Will Be A Garden In Us") is taken. This album and most others are available on a name your own price basis.
There are some obvious Neil Young influences (the clue is in the album title) but what it reminded me most of was my old favourites Nagisa Ni Te. According to my extensive records they have not appeared on these pages since 2021, which is far too long. I'm taking the opportunity to put that right with this track from their 2008 album "Yosuga".
"В нас буде сад" - Artem Bemba
"Seeing The Sea" - Nagisa Ni Te
There's a place available for my third-favourite Japanese band but alas it might not be going to Nagisa Ni Te
ReplyDeletePresumably because they are already in the top two?
DeleteInteresting idea, that random adjective / noun generator. Have you ever noticed the strange stuff your brain comes up with between being awake and falling asleep - 'hypnogogia' - it's a very bizarre thing and if you can try and register some of the thoughts and words you come up with it's fascinating (and slightly creepy, talk about insane!) Last night I had this totally uncalculated word pairing "amaretto planting" enter my almost-asleep-but-not-quite brain. As I still had some vague consciousness I made a mental note to try and remember it...and obviously did. There's a blog post!
ReplyDeleteI am familiar with the phenomenon. Down here we call it hypnogogginsia.
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