Wave/new wave.

Stopped by Other Music the other day and picked up this newer release from Honest Jons.
I don't know much about it, but essentially it's a compilation and quite an interesting record.
It's called "New Wave Dance Music From South Africa", though nothing like any new wave I know of, as it has a super different aesthetic/style. Really digging it.
Check out this track:

http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=36711&LabelID=14815

We went out walking in the early morning.

While cooking last night, I was listening to Spinning On Air on WNYC and Trembling Bells were the guests.
Carbeth is an album of theirs that I have had for sometime, but for whatever reason had overlooked.
Today I've gone back to revisit it and am happy to have done so.
It's an amazing record.
Just read this great review on Allmusic about it:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wxfexz90ld6e
Dead on.
They have the FIRE. The folk fire.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/spinning/episodes/2010/03/28
http://www.myspace.com/tremblingbells
http://new.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=34151&Labe

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep.

Other Music in New York is one of three in the world all tied for first place for best record store.
The other two are Mississippi Records in Portland and Honest Jons in London.
Every time I go into any one of them, I am overjoyed and feel like a little kid in complete wonderment.
And at Other Music, I'm lucky enough to know my friend, Daniel Givens, who every time I see him, turns me onto something new.
Recently it was the album "Catholic" from Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras.
And now it's my honor to turn you onto it, via their rad cover of Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man":

Read about the album here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6740

http://macro-rec.com/
http://www.honestjons.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Records