New post, nice music

Okay, since I have nothing to say (because I have too much to say) here's some nice music.

Dam: Palestinian rap; angry, explosive and rather profound.

In the heart of the moon- Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate: unrehearsed, acoustic music so impromptu that you've never heard anything like it before; easily the single best thing I've heard in years; and if you like the guitar, you haven't heard anything until you've heard Ali Farka Toure; sadly, he died two weeks after the recording.

Tinariwen: Raw Taureg desert blues; the reviews say lush, but it's not really, it's still coolly primal, but a bit overrated, if you ask me; still good and worth buying.

Carla Bruni: Stole this from the Lady. Bruni doesn't sing; she whispers, intimately, in French. Buy it even if you don't understand a word of French. And if you like Yeats. And looong legs. Need I say more?

And oh yes, the Yeats album's in English.

And the few nice things that I got to do in this past not-very nice 3 months are-

Wander in here without a clue and hear Roger Waters, the post- 'Pink Floyd' (Gilmour and Mason and Wright playing of all things, Arnold Layne) , not to mention Captain Sensible, Vashti Bunyan, Chrissie Hynde, Martha Wainwright, Damon Albarn et al let loose. Hoped Waters and the rest would play together, like at Live Aid, but they didn't. But it was all very nice and psychedelic, with light and sound by the family that used to run the UFO Club.

Shake hands with Ram Jethmalani, then escort him to the loo. He's a nice old man, really, and not at all fierce.