Buckfast of Champignons - Not Can

A colleague of mine has recently heard Can for the first time. I envy him having the opportunity to listen to that great music with fresh ears! I thought I'd help him on his way by making a Can compilation for him. In doing so I re-discovered a playlist I'd put together as a potential TOAD some time ago, titled Buckfast of Champignons. I was intending it for use at Sunday brunch, you see. But now I have re-jigged it and expanded into what I think is a reasonable selection of music you might like if you also like Can. And which if us does not like Can? I have also re-named it:

Not Can

Much of this will be familiar to most of the regulars visitors to this blog. I hope you all enjoy nonetheless.

1. She is a Rainbow in Curved Air - Acid Mothers Temple

2. Ali's Here - Ali Farka Toure

3. You don't Pull no Punches, but you don't Push the River - Van Morrison

4. Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco

5. Rolling Thunder - Steffan Basho-Junghans

6. Fur Immer - Neu!

7. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell

8. Spem in Alium - King's College Choir & Stephen Cleobury / Thomas Tallis

9. SHIRIN: Chaharmezrab-e bidad - Behnam Manahedji

10. Chaminuka We - Hakurotwi Mude, Cosmas Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, Ephat Mujuru

11. Kabacha Meflayey - Tsehaytu Beraki

12. E-Musik - Neu!

13. Can I Sleep In Your Arms? - Willie Nelson

14. Galactic Joke (B) - Cosmic Jokers

15. Barnowl - Caribou

16. Hallogallo - Neu!

17. A Raga Called Pat, part 4 - John Fahey

18. Homesickness - Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Rory.

TOAD: Two movies

These are the 2 movies I originally intended to distribute on a DVD, via the post.
If you need or want that, it can be arranged. Let me know.

Otherwise, start your download engines...

Kill your idols

A thrilling, comprehensive guide to New York’s buzzing downtown underground post-punk scene. Director Scott Crary kicks things off with the birth of No Wave in the late 1970’s, providing an angular rush with a priceless collection of live performances from Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Theoretical Girls and DNA. From this initial explosion of artistic energy, the film moves through the 1980’s, passing the torch to Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth and Michael Gira of Swans, before crashlanding in the noisy Now! of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Dice, Liars, A.R.E. Weapons and the Gypsy stylings of Gogol Bordello. Interviews connect the threads between the past and the present, an ever-fertile scene is defined, celebrated and trashed with equal amounts of enthusiasm, and the creators of some of the most challenging rock music of all-time get to explain what they do, why they do it and where it’s all heading.



Downtown 81

Starring the legendary artist Jean Michel Basquiat, Downtown 81 vividly depicts the explosive downtown New York art and music scene of 1980-81.

A young artist needs money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He finally manages to sell his painting but he’s paid by check. He spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he’ll have a place to spend the night.

The cast includes Deborah Harry, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, DNA, Tuxedo Moon, the Plastics, and Walter Steding and the Dragon People. Also on the soundtrack are Melle Mel, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, Vincent Gallo, Kenny Burrell and Basquiat’s own band, Gray.

Rory.