Its really early and the first busses are passing my house – some birds are singing and the morning is creeping in on me.
I was listening for the first time in years to the banana record – the Velvet Underground LP from 1967.
Got is as a present the other day.
Thats chill out downbeat music for you – like chill out at war with indian drones.
“Venus in furs – different colours made of tears. Shiny shiny leather. Shiny leather in the dark.”
Lou Reed is talking his way through this song – as usual – we love it.
Sounds like indian guitar playing – drone music – hypnotic and trance like. Tambourine on 2 and 4.
“I could sleep for 1000 years – different colours made of tears” he goes again”.
The guitar is crazy in this song – goes on and on. It works very well.
I am in a trance. Morning trance – first man up. First man on the job – in a trance.
I am glad for not being the busdriver.
“I dont know just where I am going” – Lou is waiting for his man and we are all waiting with him.
Its too early to be sensible.
“I wish that I was born a 1000 years ago” – the song “Heroin” creeps in on you with the same insisting guitarplaying and some drone stuff also.
“Its my wife and my life”
Guitar goes crazy now – or is it the drone, not sure but it sounds like a schrieking pig and we love it just the same – but its just too good damn early for that – not their fault though.
I skip to number 3 – “I´ll be you mirror” Nico sings – this is more the morning mood.
“I see you” – short song. Kind of weird but there is something about the way it fades out in the middle of the first chorus.
How is that for a new pop formular. Dont hear that so often in Country and Western or balinese gamelan.
Lou is in again on the next track on side 2 “The black angels deathsong”.
Some wild violin maybe – or bow stuff anyway – maybe on a guitar, not too sure about the origins of these string sounds. Some of them guitar.
“If you choose try to loose” – “choose to choose, choose to go” – really short song also.
Some choosing going on.
This song is written with John Cale.
Not sure about the lyrics but its Lou style allright.
“European son” ends this side with a frantic nervous track guitar and – again – lots of noisy distorted stuff going on everywhere.
Nice they didnt have digital at that time – wouldnt have sounded too good. But then again it might had.
Digital means tons of choices.
That wouldnt have gone well with Andy Warhols production technique I think.
This is mostly one takes I think – and the needle was in the red – most of the time.
People must have written books about this album.
Feels alsmost sacrimonial to write like this about it buy hey -
this is the age of digital.
And I would choose a concert – any day with these guys – over this record – sorry Lou – and Andy.
Still love it though – its like a record at war with itself.
chill out downbeat artist Ganga
Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music
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