the problem / of leisure / what to do / for pleasure?

This blog aims to promote both music and happiness, two tower-of-powering giants of the human condition, whose unity only results in more symbiotic power for each and for mankind, and whose separation can result in the most terrible of fates, standing on a garden in Manchester with your friends, looking glum...

"Did I listen to music because I was depressed, or was I depressed because I listened to music?" - High Fidelity

Either way,to get the ivory ball rolling, check out the song below from what Wiki terms "an American pop-rock band", Harper's Bizarre. The band name is a rather tricky example of wordplay, parodying the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in so doing setting up an ironclad standard in band nomenclature which continues to this very day (the Pogues being the greatest example...ha-ha)

The song Witchi Tai To deviates from this band's normal style ("Broadway-Baroque"), taking inspiration from Red Indian healing chants to create something truly relaxing and invigorating, without being pretentiously psychedelic. This means you won't find Timothy Leary muttering "You get elves, everybody does!" in the background. Modern listeners could even draw parallels with Youth Group's Forever Young, as a point of musical reference, a port of call in a storm of aural insecurity, but to do so is to do injustice to a song that doesn't need faux-retro footage of long-haired louts skateboarding to stand up on its own. Its not exactly a foot-stomping, barn-storming, shotgun-barrel-chested bitch of a compound adjective, as far as music goes, but it will keep your inner foot well and truly tapping.

Harper's Bizarre - Witchi Tai To

Next post is looking like a bit of 70's souped-up synth magic from Fabio Frizzi, or Sailor's Jacaranda, or Leaf House, or a YACHT remix of RATATAT etc...

High Fidelity

(he's ordering his records by the date of their acquisition, in case you're wondering)