I haven’t posted for a while, but for good reason – I haven’t been buying any records, preferring to concentrate on my own fledgling musical project, ‘impossible music’. I had made very little progress until Saturday, when in spite of a ludicrous level of noise from the prick next door and the wanker over the road, I was able to lay down four or five songs. They’re not exactly polished and finished, but it’s something to work with. I got less done yesterday, but still enough. I’m hoping to finish everything by Wednesday morning.

Some records just arrived in the mail for me at work, though, and both seem very nice. One is Walter Wanderley‘s ‘kee-ka-roo’ on Verve, a sealed copy. I bought this, his final (?) album for Verve, because I was pleasantly surprised by the ‘Popcorn’ LP Walter did with Luiz Henrique. One of the songs, an original, was ‘kee-ka-roo’, and it’s a nice funky organ piece with scat vocals. Without Luiz Henrique, it won’t have the Scat vocals, but I’ll be interested to hear what he does with it. His albums for Verve seem to be far, far better than those issued on Philips; I’m not really sure why.

Anyway, the other LP was Ramsey Lewis‘s ‘Mother nature’s son’, his interpretations of songs from the Beatles‘s ‘White album’. I have a couple of tracks from this on the ‘Inside’ compilations, and they are absolute killer, man!

I will finish reviewing the air album soon, honest. I really enjoyed listening to it over the weekend.