Desert Island Collection
10 Songs Close for Comfort
- Glenn Gould: Brahms Intermezzi no.4.
- Caetano Veloso / Gal Costa: Domingo
- Holger Czukay: Boat Woman Song
- Brian Eno: On Land
- Guy Lombardo: Enjoy Yourself (Its Later Than You Think)
- Talking Heads: Nothing but Flowers
- Jack Jones: The Christmas Album
- Toru Takemitsu: In An Autumn Garden
- Martin Denny: Forbidden Island
- Music of Arabia: Dramatic Representation of Tribal Quarrel (unspecified)
Stranded on a desert island, I would love to have with me a set of songs that would either remind me of my previous home or something that could make me laugh of the absurdity of the situation. The Guy Lombardo track would sit well with hunger or the point of insanity. The same goes for David Byrne´s glorious lyrics to Nothing but Flowers. «Dont leave me stranded here / I can’t get used to this llifestile». The Jack Jones Christmas album would remind me of both my childhood and our house, but maybe more of my own family as our favorite album of the season. I once performed the Takemitsu piece with a famous Gagaku Orchestra in Tokyo´s Metropolitan Theatre. I would bring that to remind me of my friend Dai Fujikura. Oh, and the unspecified track of a tribal quarrel – likely to have been staged for recording purposes – but would be useful to scare away unwanted company or predators. I would bring the Glenn Gould and the Veloso/Costa recordings, just because of its sheer beauty. (Jan Bang)
5 Kommentare
Richard M
This 1967 LP was both Gal Costa’s and Caetano Veloso’s debut. It’s a quiet, post-bossa nova effort characterized by fine singing and some very good songs, some of them penned by Veloso himself. In some ways, Domingo is more like a folk singer/songwriter album out of the ’60s London scene than a Brazilian pop record. As it was, this was a deceptive calm-before-the-storm since both artists would soon play central roles in the wild, psychedelic experimental scene known as Tropicalia. It would take years of musical and political tumult before each of them regained their footing, which makes this relatively modest and innocent beginning all the more valuable.
Jan Bang
Hi Richard,
It was given to me by years ago by photographer Yuka Fujii. I keep buying the record and giving it to friends. Such a beautiful recording.
x
JB
Michael E
I ordered the vinyl, Jan. Sounds like music from an era before it lost its innocence … my old favourite by Veloso is an album called TIERRA… from his later works I totally love VELOSO – and ESTRANGEIRO!
Olaf Westfeld
„Nothing But Flowers“ really is a lovely song.
Would also spent some time on a lonely island with these recordings – probably wouldn’t get boring at all.
Toru Takemitsu’s name has popped up quite a few times this year, I am getting more and more curious about his music.
Lajla
Thank you Jan for your inspiring words. I live on a remote island, on which only one guitarplayer lives, who does not know how to tune his instrument, who does not know how to fix his fifth string. Everybody come to his solo concerts and admire him for his virtuose playing.
When you have only one musician you appreciate the one. It is like Thoreaux wrote in WALDEN:When you have only one newspaper you read it over and over again, you don’t need another one.