up and at ‘em - its a new yee-haw!
2 January 2007 by jaksoul
ahh, a warm welcome back to the horse latitudes!
we’ve been quiet these past few weeks, because, frankly theres been presents to open, friends and family to see, copious amounts of food to be scoffed, afternoon naps to be dreamt through and drinks to be drunk (and *rubs forehead gingerly* it wasn’t just the drinks that got drunk, i tells ya).
but now we’re here in 07 and champing at the bit once more. i’m sure each of us will be reaching into our slightly grubby looking stockings, removing the overripe satsuma that, since it wasn’t made of chocolate or cash, we didn’t bother removing from the toe and plucking out something which jingled our sleigh bells over the end of year break. and to set you off, here’s my choice picking…
starting the year the way i’m inevitably going to carry on, with acoustic guitars and whistful boys singing songs about whistful girls - this track was on my autumn playlist but it wasn’t until a beautifully wintry cross country drive through gloucestershire over the no man’s land between Christmas and New Year that it struck my ‘hit repeat… oh go on just one more play’ nerve.
brooklyn based ola podrida are film score writer david wingo and friends who got together early in 2005 for the making of music and will shortly be gracing us with their eponymous debut album, courtesy of plug research records. jordanna is a fragile piece of loloping beauty, it’s also deceptively catchy and oddly poignant - despite me never quite understanding what its about. as its very early january and this morning is the first day i’ve had to respond to my alarm clock’s crowing in ten days that’s about as much analysis as i can muster.
but just to leave you fully furnished with a bit more information than you might need, an ola podrida is not only a band, but a Spanish sausage and chickpea stew and a term for a mix of incongruous elements, which might be the way forward for 2007…
hmm, can you tell i’ve had no one to vent my unfettered whittering on for the past two weeks?
ahh, baby. its good to be back.
happy new year.
edit: apologies, i posted the wrong track earlier. correct song is now upped right here.