The Fugue

I was going to talk a little bit about the musical composition of the fugue, but I think these guys do it perfectly fine in this song; besides which their explanation is probably more interesting than mine would of been anyways, and comes with a funky remix of a great concert classic.

Consider checking out the rest of the album Rock and Squash Techniques by DJ T Rock and Squashy Nice if you like this song, there’re a few more awesome tracks and most are at least solid listening that belies the general tendency of modern hip-hop to be drivel.  I bought it [the album] right away after listening to The Fugue, and I did not regret it.

As always, thanks for reading
Mike

PS.  Maybe I’ll make a real post next week.

La Petite Mort

The French have a phrase, La Petite Mort, literally, The Little Death.  While the phrase sometimes refers to a person’s reaction to trauma or tragedy, a la “they ‘died a little’ on the inside”, and at least one thinker and notable literary scholar has asserted that La Petite Mort is an appropriate way to describe the spiritual climax which should accompany the completion of a great work of literature; most often the phrase is used in reference to sexual climax, orgasm, or the euphoric moments which follow it.  Lingual/Cultural examinations and Freudian analyses aside, this is all I really have to say about this particular phrase…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373V0vJNN0M

Here’s Fred Astaire by a band nobody has ever heard of, but ought to of, San Cisco.