SATURDAY NIGHT MATT AND KIM, HENRY MANCINI.

First Matt and Kim with Daylight. From the 2009 album Grand.




Indiepop duo from Brooklyn, NY.



When I was a kid, in 1687 (or so it seems), my parents and us (me, myself and I plus my three sisters) used to watch, on Saturday evenings, Cade's County. The theme thereof, composed by the famous Enrico Nicola Mancini, has forever stuck with me:




It was an early seventies police series (24 episodes) with Glenn Ford in the role of Sam Cade, the sheriff of Madrid County, a fictional county somewhere in the American southwest. I guess I bring it up because that character personified decent law enforcement so much better than today's incompetent robocops.


Good night, and Long Live the IDF!



MFBB.

SATURDAY NIGHT KLANGKARUSSEL, CAT STEVENS.

Klangkarussel opens with Netzwerk. Klangkarussel is German for sound carousel, FYI. Austrian electronic dance band around Tobias Rieser and Adrian Held, blokes from Salzburg. Formed in 2011.




This hit was released last May. It's nice to have good poppy things/brand new sounds coming out of the German-speaking world for a change. If memory serves, the last time we noticed - that's me, myself and I anyway - was over thirty years ago, at the time of the Neue Welle.


Then it's Cat Stevens, that lousy idiot, with some decent material from the time when he still had brains: Matthew and Son.




That's it. Good night. Sorry for the hiatus, been in the Austrian Alps and the Berghuette had no wifi. Can you imagine?


Oh well. Twas a digital D-Tox, for a change.



MFBB.