Yesterday saw this beautiful hungarian new wave film from 1970. Directed by talented István Szabó (before the Oscar Academy Award ;)
Loved the colours, the light, the rhythm... A good one indeed.

ps: the look of the main movie characters made me think a lot of two Belle and Sebastian’s widely known members...
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I'm glad that Jim O'Rourke's new record is a soft one... The Visitor it's a beautiful album although I must confess that I'm a little bit disappointed that is an instrumental album. :(
Love to hear him singing along... Oh those Eureka and Insignificance days seem so far away!!!


On this link there’s a video to remember the sweet beginning of Eureka.
...and here is a recent interview on The New York Times.

A revival month...

Anita O’Day : Complete Anita O'Day Clef-Verve Sessions


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Y Pants : Y Pants


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Giorgio Moroder : From Here to Eternity + Knights of White Satin


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Daft Punk : Homework


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Donna Summer : I Remember Yesterday


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Sly and the Family Stone : Legends of Benin


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Animal Collective : Strawberry Jam


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New Order : Power Corruption & Lies (2 CD Collector's Edition)


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VA : Studio One Women


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Jamie Lidell : Jim + Multiply


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Space is the Place is an amazing (artsy/experimental) film!!
Check below the introduction, in my opinion is so contemporary...

VA : Legends of Benin
This record makes me want to dance like crazy! The songs from this Analog Africa compilation were recorded between 1969-1981 and composed by four legend beninese musicians. Great for the summer!


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VA : Love is Love
The songs from this sublime african compilation were recorded between 1955 and 1972. This record is full of calypso jewels with a brazilian and cuban mood.


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Lotus Plaza : We are not just anybody
This record by Deerhunter’s Lockett Pundt has all those amazing dreamy psychedelic guitars that I love so much on Deerhunter records. Yes, those guitars and new magic.


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Graffiti Island : Headhunters 7"
London’s most promising garage/psych/BeatHappening band at the moment! Love it!


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R. Stevie Moore : We are not just anybody
This debut album by the father of DIY music is a total lo-fi jewel.


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Dum Dum Girls : We are not just anybody
More lo-fi. This time made by a girl. Absolutely recommended if you like Black Tambourine, Talulah Gosh, Jesus and Mary Chain, Marine Girls...


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American Spring : Spring...Plus
Album by sisters Diane Rovell and Marilyn Wilson produced and co-composed by Brian Wilson (then Marilyn’s husband). The song “Falling in Love” it’s so beautiful that makes sigh always.


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VA : Take me to Jamaica. Story of Mento.
Another great compilation, this time on early jamaican music (with a strong cuban mood on it!).


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The B-52’s : The B-52’s + Wild Planet
One of my favourite bands ever. Essential for party time.


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Oscar Peterson & Fred Astaire : Complete Norman Granz Sessions
It’s been also a jazzy month... I’ve listened a lot to Peterson & Astaire, Anita O’Day, Ella & Louis, Django & Stephane, Miles... Relaxed summer nights with jazz music are even better!

J’adore Orchestre Poly-rythmo de Cotonou.
Their 70s afro-funk sound is so infectious! It comes from Benin, land of vodoun and congolese rumba.


PS: a recommended reading on Africa and vodoun is “Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti” by Maya Deren, one of my favourite experimental filmmakers.

I’m totally addicted to R. Stevie Moore’s music.
He’s a lo-fi legend, one of the D.I.Y music pioneers. Moore has been recording at home since 1976, when he self-released his first LP “Phonography”. A jewel.

Sometimes his sound reminds me of Syd Barret solo albums, some compositions are new wave, others more Beach-Boys-esque, but all share a really unique essence.

Save Stevie!! Support him by buying his recordings on his website!








ps: His father was Elvis Presley’s bass player!! Look at him on a Santa Claus hat on the video above.

I’m in love with this band! They have released a 7” called “Head Hunters”. Their sound has a strong Beat Happening aura, but darker and dirtier.
I’d love to see them live! Any promoter in Barcelona interested? They are from London and they are called Graffiti Island.

The Dovers : We are not just anybody
Cult 60's California garage band. I'm addicted to his song "She's gone" (also to Ariel Pink's version of that same song!).


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Los Chichos : Ni más ni menos
Los Reyes de la Rumba!!


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The Dukes of Stratosphear : 25 O'Clock (Enhanced version!!)
XTC on the eighties created The Dukes of Stratosphear as a 60s garage music homage. The sound of this record is amazing.


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The Who : sings My Generation
How I love this band... So talented all of them! Worth watching a recent documentary about them.


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The High Llamas : Veckatimest
Sean O'Hagan's baroque-indie-soul-pop records are so beautiful for summer nights...


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Ariel Pink : House Arrest
Can't stop listening to Ariel Pink's music.


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VVAA : Blue Byrds Over The Canyon. Southern California’s Folk-Rock UnScene (1965-71).
Amazing compilation that you can download here.


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The Brazda Brothers : The Brazda Brothers
Beautiful 70s psych folk record.


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Deerhunter : Rainwater Cassette Exchange
New EP by Deerhunter! Yay! Pop, experimental and psychedelic.


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David Lynch : Catching the Big Fish. Meditation, Consciousness and Creativity.
(Yes, this is an audiobook instead of a music record)
Love the way David Lynch speaks. He's one of my favourite human beings and I consider this is an awe-inspiring book.
Recommended for anyone wanting to scuba dive into the depths of true creativity and awareness.


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I'm moved to know that Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Sky Saxon passed away yesterday... :(

Me and my boyfriend saw years ago The Seeds playing live here in Barcelona and Sky Saxon was brilliant, vibrant and inspired. Was one of the best concerts we both have attended. Below is "Pushing Too Hard" by The Seeds.



R.I.P x 3.

Grizzly Bear : Veckatimest
In their beginnings I got addicted to their "La Duchess Anne" song thanks to a website -Bloc- created time ago by Juan Ignacio Moralejo (now editor of Sede and Molde magazines), now I'm addicted to their new record. So poetic and epic.


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Sore Eros : Second Chants
He collaborates with Gary War, love their "neo-new-wave" psychedelia.


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Coconut Recordings : Davy
Jason Schwartzman apart from being one of my favourite actors (his role in "I heart huckabees" is brilliant!) is a talented musician. I see a George Harrison aura in his music, some 80's new wave influences, Elliott Smith reminiscences...


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Mount Eerie : Lost Wisdom
Phil Elverum's folk is a gift for the senses. Listen to his former band (The Microphones) too!


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Extraperlo : Desayuno Continental
Neo-calypso from Barcelona! Great for summer nights.


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Various Artists : The Wicker Man OST
This soundtrack is addictive. Pure 70's scottish folk. See "Willow's Song" clip here.


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Tom Tom Club : Tom Tom Club
To dance in the mornings, to dance in the evenings and to jump all around.


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Ducktails : Ducktails
Underwater dreamy psychedelia? If you like "The sounds of the sounds of science" by Yo La Tengo, I think you'll dig this one.


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Thomas & Richard Frost : Visualize
An amazing 60s soft-pop album. Now re-issued by Rev-ola!


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Crystal Stilts : Crystal Stilts
They are from Brooklyn and they sound a bit like Joy Division covering The Smiths.

Kyle Field draws and makes music.
Little Wings' "Soft Pow'r" is among my favourite records all time. Beautifully lo-fi. Soulful songs with indie spirit, great at nights.
K Records (the label from other of my favourite persons in the music world -Calvin Johnson-) releases his albums.
Before Little Wings he had a band together with M.Ward called Rodriguez.

Here some of his drawings and videos...

Today Cineplexx's Nuevahola is out worldwide and I'm very happy to be part of this project!
Here some images from the design I made for the album.

CD cover.


Fold out poster booklet.


CD design.


**And last but not least a brief album description by Cherry Red records:

"Nuevahola is a 13 track introduction to Cineplexx containing old, new and rare Cineplexx songs which include collaborations with Duglas T. Stewart & Stuart Kidd (BMX Bandits) and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub).
Expect Latino laced Indie Pop with echoes of Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura.
The album boasts a beautiful 12 page, fold out poster booklet."

My boyfriend and I were totally hypnotized yesterday looking at Jarvis Cocker building his own name with volumetric letters.
Simple and addictive! On that same page you can listen to"Angela" his new single, really bowiesque in my opinion...



ps: Love his outfit! He's always so elegant!

Ariel Pink : Scared Famous
Oh, I love this super lo-fi psychedelic sounds!


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Love Joys : Reggae Vibes
Great reggae ladies from the 70s.


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Broadcast : The Future Crayon
From outer space.


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Pluramon : The Monstrous Surplus
Germanic nu-gazer.


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VVAA : Trojan Roots Box Set
Thanks to this compilation I discovered In Crowd's amazing "Rasta Man No Evil" song.


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Jonathan Richman : I, Jonathan
My favourite Jonathan Richman album.


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Django Reindhart : Djangology Box Set
The most magical guitar ever... Did I tell you that I saw his grandson playing in Paris? Delightful!


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Momus : Joemus
Momus is brilliant. Check his incredible livejournal too, A MUST.


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Kitty Daisy & Lewis : st
The real rockabilly sound they have reached on this album makes me crazy!


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The Raincoats : Odyshape
Did you know that Kitty Daisy and Lewis are The Raincoats drummer's children? Great genetics!

Oh... I (really) can't stop listening to Ariel Pink.
I'd love to see them live on Lisbon together with Deerhunter... WHAT AN AMAZING GIG!

Today I'm really happy to at last share with you one of the new designs made for Cineplexx! (usually am really impacient when it comes to wait for months to show the projects I'm involved in... )

Mejor digital single is out today thanks to Cherry Red Records. The single contains "Mejor", a delightful, festive, tropical song great for sunny days; "Paint It Black", a pensive and mantric cover of The Rolling Stones and a previously unreleased folkie demo "Sentada".

Download it now to start the week a little warmer, tropical and happier!

Just uploaded to YouTube this Blondie performance at The Midnight Special playing Heart of Glass.
Debbie's blue dress is just gorgeous!

Stuart and Caan : The Mayfly Dance
The kind of freak folk I like more.


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Jeremy Jay : Slow Dance
Oh Jeremy, soooo addictive. Makes me want to dance all the time.


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Julie Doiron : I can wonder what you did with your day
Beautiful record, beautiful lyrics and beautiful cover! BBB!


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Nick Garrie : The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas + 49 Arlington Gardens
Legend 60s songwritter Nick Garrie is playing next June in Glasgow with my beloved Cineplexx. I'm so happy to be attending to this concert!

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Blossom Dearie : Blossom Dearie
This jazz record is perfect to cook! What a beautiful voice...

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Marissa Nadler : Little Hells
Dreamy psychedelic folk.


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Dan Deacon : Bromst
I love this cover soooo much. The record is an experimental jewel.


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Joanna Newsom : Ys
I know... again. When I listen to it once I get addicted again. Joanna seems like a super-gifted folkie elf!


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Yellow Balloon : Yellow Balloon
Sixties bubblegum psychedelic sounds for springtime!


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Chas Mtn : Chas Mtn
Gary War's side project together with Ned Egg. More freak folk.

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I like roller skates very much, haven’t used them for years as now I’m a bike and walk person but admit they have a kind of retro-kitsch feel that I totally adore.
Below a roller skate selection on the screen!


Xanadu (1980)
Ohhh... iconic.


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Roller Boogie (1979)
Amazing movie! Look at The Rapture’s video inspired on this film... groooovy!


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Skatetown, USA (1979)
Love on wheels, cheesy outfits and Patrick Swayze on a leather waistcoat!


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It’s always fair weather (1955)
Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates is amazing!


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Unholy Rollers (1972)
Playmate Claudia Jennings as a skating goddess.


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and my beloved Anna Karina singing Je suis la rollergirl on Anna (1967)
Anna Karina - Rollergirl

Today I’m totally addicted to “The Mayfly Dance” a fantastic psychedelic freak-folk album by Stuart and Caan.
Below a video of one of their songs...and here you can download on MP3 a session they recorded at Dublab Radio.

Ty Segall : Ty Segall
Dirty sound, distorted guitars and a one man band with an incredible sound! Follow him!
Two songs to download here and here... and look at him.


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Clancy Eccles : Presents His Reggae Revue
Oh... years ago I wasn’t into reggae at all, now I can’t stop listening reggae records to make up for lost time.


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Olivia Tremor Control : All their records and rarities.
So brilliant, so psychedelic, so pop sometimes...What else can I say about such an amazing band?


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Gary War : New Raytheonport
Psychedelic, underwater-like sometimes, full of reverberation and totally addictive.


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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart : The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Indie pop with a C86 touch, a great debut album.


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Emitt Rhodes : Daisy-fresh from Hawthorne, California. The Best of the Dunhill Years.
An anthology of an incredible artist, more similar Paul McCartney than you would ever think...(he is known as “the one man Beatles”!)


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Bert Jansch : Bert Jansch
What a great debut album...


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Various Artists : Trojan Rocksteady Box Set
More reggae roots to make life calmer and happier!


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Thelonious Monk : Underground
The piano unorthodox master.


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The Vaselines : The Way of the Vaselines, a complete history.
Since I was a grunge teenager I’ve been loving them.


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And tonight... MINIFESTIVAL at Apolo[2]

Talented Glasgow musician Ally Kerr is visiting us for the first time! Come and listen to some of his beautiful sweet pop songs.
The rest of the lineup will be Cranes, Chris Cacavas Orchestra, Hugo Race and many more...

...HEY! HO! LET’S GO!

A first selection...


The New York Dolls


The Rolling Stones


David Duchovny on Twin Peaks


Andy Warhol


Roman Polanski on “The Tenant”


Queen. I want to break free!


Tim Curry. I'm just a Sweet Transvestite...


David Bowie


Devendra Banhart


Monty Python


Johnny Deep on “Ed Wood”


Marcel Duchamp

Since Airwalker EP was released I’ve been a big fan of Jeremy Jay. And now I’m really happy that he’s coming to play this Saturday in Barcelona!
Here’s the video from the “Beautiful Rebel” song...
Enjoy and have a nice day*

I love The Flaming Lips and I LOVE their shows... attended a few times and always had lots of fun, the picture above reminded me of Wayne Coyne’s human ball...


By the way... have you seen their “Fearless Freaks” documentary? Truly inspiring!!

Today woke up singing Rapper’s Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang... What a tremendous hit!

Enjoy and have a great Sunday*

Animal Collective : Merriweather Post Pavilion
This album is so future... This album is so brilliant and intense... One of my “2009 Best Albums” for sure. Congratulations Panda Bear, Avey Tare and Geologist.

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Nara Leaõ : Nara
This is a beautiful and sweet album. Leaõ is probably my favourite brazilian female composer.

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M. Ward : Hold Time
Well, M Ward is the new Johnny Cash I guess... A great new album for his saga.

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Telepathe : Dance Mother
Great neo-shoegazer album by this Brooklyn artsy female band.

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The Circulatory System : The Circulatory System
Psychedelic experimental retro-pop jewel from an extraordinary band formed by several Olivia Tremor Control members.

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Ravi Shankar : almost all his records
Lately I’ve been listening hard 90% of Shankar’s discography and cooking a lot of Chana Dal.

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of Montreal : Cause we were virgins to your kisses.
What can I say about a limited edition picture vinyl from one of my favourite bands covering M.I.A’s “Jimmy”?

(well... in fact Jimmy was originally written by Parvati Khan...)

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The Rain Parade : Emergency Third Rail Power Trip.
Fantastic record from The Pasley Underground .“I look around” sounds like San Francisco in the summer of love :)

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Mark E Smith + Ed Blaney : Smith and Blaney.
I love The Fall, long live Mark E Smith!!!

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The Sunshine Fix : Age of the Sun.
Neo-psychedelic pop from the Elephant 6 collective vaults.

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Can’t stop listening to The Circulatory System albums...Totally subtle brilliant contemporary psychedelia.

They are part of the Elephant 6 family, some of them play in Olivia Tremor Control too.

and here...
Lives, rares and demos by Olivia Tremor Control... even The Velvet Underground’s “European Son” covered by them!

And Elephant 6 podcasts/radio shows by Optical Atlas.

Enough psychedelic music for a wednesday, huh?

I’ve made an 8track playlist with some neo-shoegazer, psychedelic dreamy songs, including beautiful “Bluish” by Animal Collective, “VHS Dream” by Deerhunter, ”Hallucinations” by The Raveonettes...even The Jesus and Mary Chain covering "My Girl"!
A romantic mix I guess...

Enjoy*



...and here’s the tracklist ;)

Bluish Animal Collective

I Can't Stand it Telepathe

VHS Dream Deerhunter

Hallucinations The Raveonettes

Time For A Lie Pluramon

River Card Atlas Sound

For April Jessica Bailiff

My Girl The Jesus & Mary Chain

Iconic choreographies, an introduction.

Carmen Miranda - taken from "The Gang's All Here" musical. (Tutti frutti!!!)


Pulp - This is hardcore. (See the turquoise & blonde dancers around Jarvis on 4:26, fantastic! )


Esther Williams - Bathing beauty. (Underwater fantasy)


Feist - 1234 (Love the colours! A modern revisitation of choreography standards)


Björk - It’s oh so quiet. (A modern classic. Love the mailbox dancing...)


and my personal favourite...

Godard & co. - Bande a part. (Outsider beatnik casual choreography!!)

Cineplexx : Espiral + A mi lado REMIXX EP
A great EP album by Cineplexx to free download from his website!

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Animal Collective : Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee
Waiting for Merriweather Post Pavilion... meanwhile re-listening the whole AC discography ;)

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Grab Grab The Haddock : Three songs by... / Two (four) more songs by...
After Marine Girls (with Tracey Thorn) Alice Fox formed GGTH. Beautifully lo-fi!!


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Momus : Ocky Milk
Fantastic! In my humble opinion the best Momus record since Ping Pong. See “Nervous Heartbeat” video here.

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Elliott Smith : Either or
This album is so delicate and beautiful... Since he died can’t listen frecuently Elliott’s records as I get sad, but his music is brilliant.

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Satie : Piano Works
Perfect to stay at home while it’s raining outside.

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Pulp : Different Class / His ‘n’ Hers
A classic at home, one of my all-time key bands. Miss them though...

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Jorge Bem : Africa Brasil + st
A total brazilian must and hit-maker!!

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Chico Buarque & Ennio Morricone : Per un pugno di samba
I know, what a horrible artwork, but what an AMAZING record!

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The Beatles : Revolver + Rubber Soul
What else could I say about these two masterpieces except that I love both?

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