Facebook notification or ‘clamourfication’?
In the real world people get together and have no need of telling each other “what they are doing right now!” something facebook is designed to elicit. A face-to-face encounter always makes that question self evident . If they are organised friends and sometimes even if they are not, this same information has been ‘diarised’ a few days before and is, well… unremarkable and rarely revisited. “Meeting Jane for coffee” used to be confined to the pages of a filofax, now it is fodder for the facebooker.
Culture has taught us that advertisting need not be meaningful, it must just be pervasive and incessant,
and we have bought it. Bought what? Bought the air they sold to us, and after re-polluting it, resold it to whoever will believe our social networking proclamations. Read more
Swish Spins
The first March session of records. I try to keep ‘em in the background, but these were distracting enough to note!
Sweet Bird – Herbie Hancock ( The Joni Letters)
I Need You – Da Truth ft Izzy (Open Book)
Mr Integrity – Frank McComb (The Malibu Sessions, The Truth Volume 2)
Grazing In The Grass – Hugh Masekela (Still Grazing [reissue])
Living Today – J’Nay (Pressed & Ready, Kindred Collective)
Waiting On The World To Change – John Mayer ft. Ben Harper (The Village Sessions)
Vietnam – Jimmy Cliff (Reggae Greats)
Tell Him – Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill)
The Last Time I saw Richard – Joni Mitchell (Blue)
Your Word – J.R (Life In Stereo)
Park Bench People – Jose James (The Dreamer)
Honest Man’s Hustle – Mr J. Medeiros (of god’s and girls)
Beautiful – Sharlene Hector (Pressed & Ready, Kindred Collective)
Starstruck – Da Truth ft. The Ambassador (Open Book)
Been Such A Long Time Gone – Hugh Masekela (Still Grazing [reissue])
verbswish newsletter || Well I’ll Be #9 (Mar ‘08)
Hey e’rybody! beware the (good) vibes of March, February was great – see the ‘Oh My Daze!’ post on
the blog, but in short had a great TRANSTATIC launch + joint b’day celebration with friend and band member Abimaro
You had to be there, so if you weren’t (tut-tut), we’ll try and do another one soon – dont sleep. In the meantime…
Well I’ll Be…
- Running
- up and down London like clockwork, or the sweat of a goldsmith near a furnace. Let me explain: Myself and full band play north London’s Clockwork Bar this Thursday 6th, featuring as part of POESY, a night of music and poetry.
(Doors from 7pm). 96-98 Pentonville Road, N1 9JB.Then on the 18th were at Goldsmiths University, which hosts a night of music called ‘Double Take’,
(Rm 167, nearest tube new cross, from 7.30pm)Finally, this month were at a night called Furnace in Balham, a meld of passionate, spontaneous
word, music, theatre fusion. (Georges Pub, Balham Hill, £5 otd, map).
Yessir – (aren’t you glad I explained that;) - Spinning
- records. [verb]swish a DJ? I hear you say, well something like that, but it’s more part of an experiment we’re doing
here at TRANSTATIC that I’ve dubbed ’swish spins’. No rocket science here, we’re just curious about what people like, and whether they like what we like. The playlist from the first couple sessions have already gone up – as well as the rules. For this month’s competition, there is an album from one of the sessions up for grabs. To enter just email a request: info at transtatic.co.uk. So far I’ve been digging in the crates pulling out old Bacharach cuts, Masakela jawns, but also some new Daft Punk stuff, and some of Herbie’s Grammy winner.
Oh, in fact one tune has been so huge… I have to give it it own section >>> - Taking
- ‘Every Step’ back (as in rewinding) – Tawiah’s etherial new single, it made i-tunes track of the week and is a good look for UK soul. Much has rightly been said about her twisted soul sound, but the lyrics and theme on this track have also won me over: “Can you hear the wind as it blows / without ears the leaves dance”.
- Tipping
- my hat once again to all for showing out for the launch. Big ups to Michaela, racking up yet more coach miles for TRANSTATIC. Check her new facebook page here. Thanks also to Shabazz for stepping out from behind the camera, for his amazing track‘Better Now’. Big ups to Tryumf on the decks, (Look out for his poetic single, ‘Proverbs 31 Woman’ on Ras Kwame’s 1xtra show, big in the game), last but not least shout out to globetrotting Ama in Rio, who desparately wanted to be there but couldn’t. Nuff Love.
- (Re)reading
- Eat this book – Eugene peterson, Tunesmith – Jimmy Webb, The Gospel of St Luke, Selected Poems – Langston Hughes
Right, I think that’s all the fun. I’m of to the drycleaners, the post office, and the bank (no laughing). I’ll save the
fun up for April’s WIB
peace
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Who/what is [verb]swish?
A type of word + a sound, in a noun? a lyricist; a name, a style, a purpose, a privilege
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