07 November 2016

Recent House of Old New Songs

(Re)discoveries during Autumn-Winter

17 pieces through my Symbolical Spaces and Rooms



Roof Top

SNOWBIRD

with Elvis Presley
[by Gene MacLellan]

from Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) -70

Snowbird comes down early this year
and maybe Anne Murray follows soon



Front Door
feels like a funny fire brigade knocking at

NAUTILUS
Anna Meredith

from Varmints -16



Hallway

MILES FROM NOWHERE
Cat Stevens

from Tea For The Tillerman -70



Kitchen

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN
(down a shady lane, near the sugar cane)

Burl Ives
from Burl Ives at His Very Best



Workroom

YOU WIN AGAIN
(so little time, doing nothing but compete)

Bee Gees
from E.S.P. -87



Bathroom

THE EMPEROR IN HIS WAR ROOM
(after choosing the ones you think should die,
lying on the hill, crawling over the window sill)

Peter Hammill
without his group, just piano

from In Camera -74



Parlour

EL DORADO part V : THE GRANDCHILDREN OF APES
Marillion

from Fuck Everyone And Run -16



Living TV Room

DAYDREAMING
Radiohead

from A Moon Shaped Pool -16



small extra Wardrobe

SILLY GIRL
Young Rascals

[composed by Cavaliere & Brigati]

from Once Upon a Dream -68



Basement

TREATY
Leonard Cohen

from You Want it Darker -16

(even if his early Dress Rehearsal Rag
is both best and darkest)



Stairway
(up again)


EN HELT NY JUL [ = A COMPLETELY NEW CHRISTMAS]

Amy Diamond
[composed by Robert Habolin]

from En Helt Ny Jul -08



Attic

FARMOR [ = GRANDMOTHER]
Frida Hyvönen

from To The Soul -12



Bedroom

SONG FOR A WINTER'S NIGHT
Gordon Lightfoot

from The Way I Feel -67



Balcony
(of Backyard)


[FANTINE'S DEATH] COME TO ME
(Cosette, the light is fading....)

in LES MISÉRABLES
by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer and more

with Colm Wilkinson & Patti LuPone
from Original London Cast -85



Garden
(frozen)


HOME AGAIN
Carole King

from Tapestry -71



Tool Shed

DRUM BOOGIE

Gene Krupa
co-composed by Roy Eldridge
sung by Irene Daye -41



Cave
(under whole house, deep in earth)


DISTANT SKY
Nick Cave

from Skeleton Tree -16






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