Peculiar Sound

  I was never able to see the movie ‘Drawing Restraint 9′ featuring Bjork but I am listening to the soundtrack. The music brings me back to the sound realm I was introduced to through San Francisco sound artist & my former music professor Roddy Schrock.  As a matter of fact now is a wonderful time to subscribe to his podcast, Fundamentally Soundcast. I like how he’s so attuned to fundamentals, maybe due to his time in Japan. The Japanese seem extremely fundamental in general.    Anyways, I’m re-orientating myself towards experimental (whatever that is) and click jazz, mainly through DJ Krush from Japan.  The last few weeks I’ve been listening to mainly alot of chill out, ambient, and jazzy San Francisco style house but I need something a little more strange for a return to my true aesthetic appreciations. Well being and sound are fundamental today.    I found a great site tonight, Jetnumbers, which will work with Skypein providing a number in Tel Aviv, Israel  so that Mor can call me from her פלאפון. Long distance relationships are becoming easier and easier!

Bottle Beverage – a personal habituated aesthetic

   I was walking to pick up 11 little cans of Pokka Jasmine Green Tea today and the virtues of bottled beverages appealed to me.   -B-R-E-A-K- I’m listening to Pole Folder’s – Zero Gold released on Bedrock maybe about a year ago. Amazing, Amazing Record… The synths are amazing, and it’s touching my soul.  Let’s get back to the program. So, When I departed to Israel this winter I traveled on a Greyhound bus to New York after dinner with Sayan. The bus ride was extremely warm and smug and we stopped off at a truck stop as a storm was approaching. Somehow, I found salvation in Vitamin Water. The flavored water with extremely clever modern marketing. I loved Vitamin Water and was happy to find it in Israel. Sadly, the marketing doesn’t reflect a genuine product as the is comprised of ungenerous amounts of fructose making it soda-like.   In Israel I discovered superior flavored waters. They have amazing Nana (mint-like) water with vitamins, as well as basic flavored water. It’s simple habitual consumptions like this that make me feel at home at a place. The main point is that the bottled flavored waters in United States are inferior to those of Israel. But, I have found this sweet jasmine green tea produced by Pokka and it’s amazing. But then again it’s Chinese in origin.

New CD

  Today, after returning from an Arabic car wash with picturesque views of the Mediterranean I stopped off at the Haifa Carmel Bus Station as I waited for bus 123, Neve Shaanan. There, I stopped off at Tower Records and picked up the 1996 Faithless album, Reverence.

  A few days ago I saw the video for ‘Insomnia’ revitalizing my love for Faithless that all began with ‘God Is a DJ’. I can’t believe it’s taken so long to pick up the album. I remember I first encountered the song on a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong en-route to Mumbai, India. I would encounter the video for the song about a month later while experiencing insomnia at Hotel Tip Top.

  It’s a well done album that peaks out on track 11, The Way Out West mix of Salva Mea. Maxi Jazz’s lyrics are simply simplistic and truthful. It’s refreshing to hear poetic raps against danceable house tracks. Beautiful… I can’t remember the last time I purchased a CD.