11.16.06
The Weirdest Band in the World
You ever have that experience where you’re working away, listening to music, and suddenly you sit up, brow furrowed, thinking “What the hell is this that I’m listening to? This CD is all over the map! This is the weirdest, most mindblowingly versatile band in the world!”
And then you go and you look at your music-playing utility on your computer to see what it is that you’ve been hearing and you are reminded that when you turned it on you stuck it on “shuffle” and it’s been randomly wandering through your entire collection?
Yeah. It’s that kind of morning. I’ve had half a pot of tea, and it’s still that kind of morning.
But I have to say that if there were a band that combined Moroccan joujouka musicians, Joe Henry, Ella Fitzgerald, Balkan dance music, B.B. King, Joe Strummer, The Shangri-Las, and Andrea Eccheveri (given that this was the stream that got me all weirded out), I would certainly buy all their albums and go to all their concerts.