Sound Grammar

1963 Treasure Isle blank

A delightful track, full of rhythm, romance and charisma, with a playful back-and-forth that still feels fresh decades later.

June 26, 1942 – June 11, 2026

https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.391

William Blake, Stonehenge

Gold Band, El Anatsui, 2020

I love this beautifull Lusophone African music track, full of warmth, drive and subtle melodic twists.

"The Lady of the Decoration" (1914), by Harry Clarke.

Snow on Sumida river, by Tsuchiya Koitsu (1934)

Porthus i parken Villa Borghese i Rom

For the first day of the World Cup, here's a joyous tune from Zimbabwe's Zexie Manatsa and the Green Arrows. In Shona, tsuro is a hare, and Zexie imagines what a great player a hare would be. Unfortunately, Zimbabwe did not make the cut for the World Cup.

This one sounds a whole lot like the Kinks circa Dead End Street. As I've previously said, more songs should mimic the Kinks. Sweet Feeling was a short lived British psych group with a very confusing history - they eventually became Rupert's People.

Madame Schrödinger and her cat, 1998