SOUNDTRACK: SHIGETO-“Ringleader” (2013).
The cover of this album gives you an idea of what lies within–and yet the complexity in this one song alone makes me wonder just how much is hidden by those clouds.
The song opens with delicate bells and a persistent pinging metronome. Then come a series of complex notes—seemingly rando…but not. Add to this some watery sounds. And then some buzzing percussion. That’s the first minute of this six-minute instrumental.
The song begins with a very delicate vibe, and yet once the tribal drums come to the fore the song takes on a very different feel.
By the middle of the song that original sound is more or less gone, replaced by a more classic “new age” sound. But again, things change around 3:45 when the song quiets down a bit, allowing new percussion to enter and giving it a kind of world music feel.
I enjoy how at the end, when the drums stop it actually sounds like real drumsticks clattering together—as if the whole song were played by a drummer and not a machine.
[READ: June 17, 2013] “From the Diaries of Pussy-Cake”
This is labelled as a memoir, so I assume it is true (and I wonder if he is writing his memoirs, or if this is just an amusing story for this issue). Gary talks about his life a teen when he was in love with a girl named Pamela (not her real name). She was an urban hermit and an unreformed shoplifter.
She was totally in control of the relationship because he was utterly smitten. He sums up their relationship with a typo that he sent her. He left out the “at” and wrote: “I am your disposal.” (HA). And so their relationship was very much like that.
She had an ex-boyfriend whom she couldn’t (or wouldn’t) finish it up with–his parents loved her and she wanted to keep up pretenses, so she would be with him quite often. Although the rest of the time she was with Gary, and that’s because she was always in charge with when she was with him. I loved this description: (more…)
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