If one goes to the re-listen function for Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone (available for 4 more days) one may be able to hear the song It Is There, from Euston Piret and Lidwine. At the end of the song, mention is also made of myself. As far as I understand and can judge, this augurs (the possibility of) some of my collaborative work with Kodagain being played on the show.
It Is There starts at 18 minutes and 20 seconds in.
Some regular, or irregular, readers, may have begun to wonder where they can obtain compact discs containing the musical output of the band Kodagain. The answer is, from Croation record label, Listen Loudest.
Looking at the catalogue, I find the following Kodagain titles listed as available:
1978 – 81 1985 – 92 a drink with something in it commercial diggin' deep ain't no sleep speed up the nowhere land's echoes
I wonder if this is out of date. There has since been the album 000.
On Monday, I posted an entry on a song collaboration between myself and Sasa about Eleanor Powell in the film Honolulu. The demo of that song has now been uploaded to Kodagain's MySpace page, and is currently second on the tracklist, after Vampira, Maila Nurmi. I've been playing it a lot.
Fairly recently (I believe it was some time last year), I conceived an interest in tap-dancing. As a spectator. Actually, I'd love to tap-dance myself, but it might be a bit late for that. Besides, I've got no money, and don't know where I'd go to learn. Anyway, that's not the point. I find myself regarding some of Eleanor Powell's routines with we're-not-worthy AWE. Clearly I'm not the only one. From Wikipedia:
According to accounts of the making of [Broadway Melody of 1940], including a documentary included on the DVD release, Astaire was somewhat intimidated by Powell, who was considered the only female dancer ever capable of out-dancing Astaire. In his autobiography Steps in Time, Astaire remarked: "She 'put 'em down like a man', no ricky-ticky-sissy stuff with Ellie. She really knocked out a tap dance in a class by herself."
This one makes me well up sometimes when I watch it:
(I love the exchange between the guy and his jealous girlfriend at the table.)
I wrote to my musical collaborator, the incomparable Sasa, and told him that I wanted to write some lyrics about this dance sequence. He responded with marked enthusiasm, but asked me to keep the lyrics short, as I have a tendency to be prolix. Anyway, I have now written some lyrics (under the title, 'Honolulu') and delivered them into Sasa's capable song-writing hands.
Well, the latest track to be added to the Kodagain MySpace page (scroll down to the bottom of the track list), is My Well Known Views on the Subject, lyrics in a recent blog post.
Luckily there's the music of Sasa Combe Zoric, for whom, as you all know, I've been writing lyrics like someone with the opportunity to write lyrics for a really great and relatively unknown band.
But Kodagain's Cycast profile has recently been whittled down hugely. So, if you want previews of the kind of material that we're working on, you'll have to visit the Kodagain MySpace page while the tracks in question are still there. The two songs currently featured on that page for which I have provided words are Take This Tip From Me and Kamakura.
Also, I still love this very simple song, for which I always seem to be in the right mood:
And, at this link, there is another of my very favourite Kodagain songs.
I'm still working on lyrics, and someone should probably stop me, before I do myself a mischief. Current titles include My Well Known Views on the Subject and Incompetent Doctors. The most recent of our recorded demos, I believe, has been The Death of Walt Disney.
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