From the unre­lea­sed and unplan­ned sound­track to Todd Solondz’s Palin­dro­mes comes the child­like inno­cent ‘la la la’ theme from Nathan Lar­son. For more of Nathan’s work I recom­mend his web­site where he claims to make “music to order” and this track is avai­la­ble for down­load for free. In Nathan’s own words:

I got to rip off the ROSEMARY’S BABY sound­track, colla­bo­ra­ted again with my wife Nina, always a plea­sure; plus it was the first fea­ture I did almost enti­rely on the lap­top with which I write you now, at the now defunct Globe Stu­dios, over­loo­king the Meat Pac­king Dis­trict in New York City in it’s final days. Once a strange, nasty, and won­der­ful area, it’s now one big high-end desig­ner out­let mall like everything else. Anyhoo, PALINDROMES has been very well recie­ved at the usual round of fes­ti­vals, and appa­rently it’s been sold, thank God, as Todd paid for it him­self , thus ris­king total finan­cial annihial­tion. Balls.

El Perro del Mar is the band of singer/songwriter Sarah Ass­bring from Gothen­burg, Swe­den. She desc­ri­bes her pro­ject as “the name of the music that I had been drea­ming of and plan­ning on making for a long time.” Her style is very remi­nis­cent of 60’s French pop; rela­xed, care-free music and som­bre yet child-like vocals.

This track is entit­led “It’s all good” and is avai­la­ble free from Last​.fm (where this is strea­med from).

Given my new found web space and band­width capa­bi­li­ties I have deci­ded to turn the music sec­tion of this blog from a sim­ple “review and list” pos­ting of my favou­rite albums to a fully fled­ged mp3 blog with inline flash strea­med mp3s and music videos via You­Tube. My ins­pi­ra­tion for doing this comes from the well ver­sed Spi­ked Candy for which I am a regu­lar reader.

Howe­ver the “Radio Blog” flash script used there seems too cum­ber­some for my liking, so I searched around for an alter­na­tive flash strea­ming audio pla­yer. I found two options — both by Jeroen Wije­ring, the first was very simi­lar to Radio Blog, it has a list of songs and you can choose to play them; whilst very nice and highly cus­to­mi­za­ble it did not suit a post by post situa­tion. So I opted for the second, a con­cise pro­gress bar which allows colour and size mani­pu­la­tion (but has no text dis­play), per­fect for my needs.

To check out this neat little script I sug­gest rea­ding the latest posts in the Audio / MP3 blog sec­tion, I have put up three posts so far inc­lu­ding Lulu Jackson’s pre-war blues rarity “You’re going to leave the old home Jim” and a video of Moham­med Rafi’s “Jaan Pechechaan Ho” per­for­med for the Bolly­wood film Gum­naam.

My satis­fac­tion with this script has also lead me to inte­grate it into the forums so that any direct link to a file with mp3 exten­sion is par­sed to gene­rate an inline pla­ya­ble ver­sion and an option to down­load the track. This modi­fi­ca­tion is amongst the many I have added lately, inc­lu­ding the abi­lity to post You­Tube and Goo­gle­Vi­deo inline from the reply box. Now I only wish I could somehow apply these to blog­ger so that I don’t have to add the html every time I want to post something dynamic.

This track is the first of two parts, entit­led “You’re going to leave the old home Jim”. I dis­co­ve­red this track on the album “Before the Blues, vol. 2″ under the Yazoo label.

I have since seen it on “Female Country Blues Vol.1″ with 7 other magi­cal tracks. Howe­ver this still remains my favou­rite, it has a sublime quaint­ness and that power­ful fee­ling of nos­tal­gic melancholy. This song was crea­ted bet­ween 1924 and 1928 and is clas­si­fied in the pre-war blues genre.

From the sound­track to Everything is Illu­mi­na­ted and desc­ri­bed on the last​.fm wiki:

“[As an artist that com­bi­nes] ele­ments of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian caba­ret, Gogol Bor­de­llo tells the story of New York’s immi­grant dias­pora through debauchery, humor, and surreal cos­tu­mes. Lea­der and sin­ger Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birth­day Party and Einstür­zende Neu­bau­ten in his native Ukraine.”