1. "Flying Home' may not be exchanged for any record which is shorter than some other record 2. If record X may be exchanged for record Y, and record Y is not shorter than record Z, record X may be exchanged for record X. 3. Any record may be exchanged for itself.
Throughout, there is a tiny guitar riff, buried deep in the sound, as if it were leaking in from some other recording, that counts a cadence of absolute loss: da da da daaaaaaa... and as the song ends the saxophone plays against this, too.
Some emails and other records described donors seeking and in some cases obtaining meetings with State Department officials.
Click here to see all the weekend's album reviews from both the Observer and Guardian, to see some of the other records out this week.
At the time, "Kiko" was hailed as Los Lobos' finest work, a roots-rock equivalent of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," but it hasn't aged as well as some of the other records, owing to Froom's sometimes gimmicky production and occasional lapses into pretension.
Not only was his love of "international" music common among young South Africans, but kwaito was a product of that love – it was born when two house DJs in Johannesburg, Oskido and Christos, slowed down some house and other records to a tempo of around 110bpm.
It's a little different from some of the other records we've released--maybe that's why it didn't get the attention that it deserved.
Some early colonial documents refer to him as "Captain Endecott", indicating some military experience, and other records suggest he had some medical training.
Rodgers is perhaps best remembered for his distinctive blue yodel (whose origins have been ascribed to everything from Tirolese minstrels to work-gang calls to attempts to imitate a train whistle); it was popularized in "Blue Yodel No. 1" and was at the heart of some dozen other recorded versions.
While I have heard some of this band's other records I can't say I'm familiar with their work enough to form a cohesive conclusion on the importance of this record in the Holydrug Couple catalog.
