Here’s one from many years ago, a very nice chilled classic found when looking for a Jose Padilla Cafe Del Mar mix the other week when something slow mo was needed. Here’s “Spiritual High” from Moodswings, a tune that slows that stressful thing called life down.
Here’s the Jose Padilla mix that we found in the end, it’s a mix worth listening to.
This Sunday the imaginary radio stations crew have a right treat for you. KTAB will be featuring “Yesterday’s music today” on 9395 kHz at 2200 utc on Sunday 31st July 2022 via the magic of the wireless.
The show will feature all sorts of old time music from the year dot to the late 1950’s including a mix called “I’ve got those broadcasting blues” from One Deck Pete at 24 minutes in featuring this classic from Keith & Enid called “Worried over you”. Tune into the shortwave time machine.
Many thanks to Steve Barker again for recommending more great squeezebox tunes, this latest one is a belter! It’s from Los Corraleros de Majagual from Colombia and called Los Sabanales. This video is something else. Cheers Steve, great tunes are always appreciated here at Weeds!
And cheers to DJ Frederick Moe for the following top music tips. Firstly this radio DJ themed one by Houston (Bob) Mills called The Early Morning DJ with the great line: “most people are still sleeping, his wife and kids he leaves at home, it won’t be long before he’s signing on”
And then this wonderful LP of chilled out dub LP by Sumac Dub with the very apt title for us called Le Jardin de Lucy. Cheers for the recommendation Fred, this is a brilliant LP! More on the band here. The title track is a tune!
Meanwhile, in the pond earlier this morning.
Here’s a good radio show if you like all things on a train tip. CTRN was originally scheduled for last Sunday but sadly didn’t happen due to a glitch at the sidings. The show will now go ahead this Sunday 24th July via WRMI on 9395 kHz at 2200 utc. Listen in to hear a different class of train tune and the show is dedicated to everyone working on the trains, the train spotters with their electronic notepads and all passengers of course.
And whilst we’re on the subject of trains here’s a few rail related reggae tunes…
The first the flip of Culture & Niccademus‘ Disco Train called Righteous Train complete with speeded up vocals and mad sound effects by the great Joe Gibbs & The Professionals.
And this lively one from Big Joe and King Tubby’s with Rasta Train.
And finally the classic from Linval Thompson & U Brown with Train to Zion. Tickets please!
Cheers to Steve Barker for bringing this great tune to our attention which features some dubbed out squeezebox. It’s from Cerrero & Vivi María and it’s called Cumbia de las almas extrañas. It’s wonderful stuff!
And here’s one that didn’t make the “More Squeezeboxes on shortwaves” mix. It’s from Oro11 and it’s called Macumbiabass.
Even in the heatwave we’ve had some visitors to the garden. The stag beetle (we’re sure it is) above didn’t seem to mind the high temperatures. They look brilliant when they’re flying over at dusk (looking for a mate) like some small army tank/helicopter hybrid machine. More on the stag beetle here.
As it says on the site it’s good to keep some dead and decaying wood lying about as it’s a vital habitat for them. So don’t “Keep it tidy” when it comes to some parts of the garden, the beetles will thank you for it.
Also the compost heap at the bottom of the garden seems to be thriving in the heat. We’re trying to give it a daily turn over with a garden fork making sure the ingredients are well mixed up which at the same time adds air into the pile this speeding up the rotting process. The pic below is pre “The Big Mix Up”. We prefer the traditional pile now as opposed to those dalek ones that seem to take the skin off your hands when giving it a fork over.
Enjoy this spell of cooler weather!
The strange vegetable bed at the bottom of the garden is looking healthy. We’ve red cabbages and tomatoes and a red hot poker but God knows what that’s doing there. The bed usually suffers with a lack of water but we added some organic material from the compost heap at the start of the season, feed the plants there weekly and make sure we get the watering can on it daily. Over the next few nights we may even give it a water in the evening.
Earlier this year we went to that great seed swap at Glengall Wharf Garden in Peckham and got several different varieties of tomatoes. We’re hoping that the toms above are the beefsteak Costoluto Fiorentino from the seed swap and the tomatoes in the raised beds halfway down the garden are the classic plum San Marzano as they look a bit like them.
We really should be more organised with some sort of colour coded notebook and plant labels but sadly we’re not. Let’s see what they turn out like at harvest time.
How hot is it today? The front garden is like the Sahara at the moment and we’ve been meaning to weed it of late but the soil is like concrete and the last time we spent a lot of time working out there was in lockdown. We cleared ten or so years of ivy off the front wall, then a couple of weeks later parts of the wall fell down. The ivy was keeping the thing up!
We put in a hollyhock last year, the main stem fell over with the mad wind early this year, then spikes grew out of the main stem on the ground and from the centre part a bush has formed. We’re not complaining as it’s covering the broken down wall and the flowers are attracting all sorts of bugs, pollinating insects and bees.
In this silly heat, do remember to give your garden a good water in the morning if possible and take it nice and easy, the garden will thank you for it!
As for cooling down sakes we’d recommend this excellent mix from Chris Coco, one to have on when all the windows and doors are open and there’s damp sheets hanging down from the ceiling (saw that on the internet) to help keep everyone cold what with the crazy heat today.
And Chris has very kindly put up the track listings too:
1 Calm – Long Summer Dream (Dub Mix) x Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train
2 Turbotito – To Feel In Love (Projections x Turbotito Version) x Althea & Donna – Uptown Top Ranking
3 SONLIFE – The First (Chris Coco Version x SONLIFE – She Misses You
4 Blair French – Honey Rooftops (Chris Coco Version Part 1) x Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun
5 Sauco – Sun Goddess (Chris Coco Sunset Mix) x Scott Grooves – E2E4 Reframe
6 Hear & Now x Chris Coco – For You (The Chill Out Tent Edit) x Hear & Now – Aurora Baleare
7 Reggae Disco Rockers – The Whistle Song (Quiet Storm Version) x King Tubby – A Better Version
8 Quinn Lamont Luke – Don’t Run Away (Chris Coco Version) x Mr Fingers – Can You Feel It
9 Projections – Original Cell (Chris Coco Version) x Thomas Newman – American Beauty
10 Dexter Scott – Break Noise x The Pop Group (Dennis Bovell Dub)
11 Coyote – Home Grown x Gregory Isaacs – Cool Down The Dub
12 Joan Bibiloni – Castanets Eivissa / Mar Blava
Thanks to everyone who’ve been sending us their accordion classics since last week’s transmission of WELK.
Thanks to John F. who alerted us to Kimmo Pohjonen. We had no idea that this sort of madness existed, talk about taking the accordion to the next level! We love Kimmo’s get up but don’t think the local allotment committee would allow this sort of gear to be worn on-site especially in this forthcoming heatwave. A great tune by the way.
And he reminded us about this great tune by Les Negresses Vertes a band we here have seen a few years ago but had well forgotten about.
And also Slim of the Urban Voodoo Machine, Slim Cyder Co etc. Here’s the great man in action with Joe Ely from a few years ago.
He also mentioned the Grace Jones tune “I’ve seen that face before” a reworking of Astor Piazzolla‘s “Libertango”.
Steve Barker had also said about the maestro Astor Piazzola amongst lots of others (Clifton Chenier, Rocking Sidney, Boozoo Chavis and Amédé Ardoin and many more) which we’ll look into soon. He also mentioned Flaco JImenez and this tune with Ry Cooder.
And last and not least Mark Paytress who sent us this classic and called it “perhaps my fave squeezebox tune of all time” and he may be right! The Three Suns “Delicado”.
Keep on squeezing as they say and thanks to everyone who have got in touch with their recommendations.
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