A realization!

Reading the liner notes of Clive Davis's compilation from the late '80s, Homeland: A Collection of Black South African Music, I discovered something I didn't know about apartheid-era South Africa. Hence the name, many black Africans were sort of herded into reservations called "homelands." They were supposed to have been split up by tribe, but this was done poorly and a lot of people were estranged, continuing the traditional African diaspora familiar to the last half-millenium or so of Africans...

Anyway, these places would often be called "_____land." Graceland, then, makes a lot more sense as a title.

I'll be 22 on Monday. I'll also be at Disneyland. In tribute, I've been listening to a lot of Perrey-Kingsley-- well, at least, a lot of the same few songs. They made "Baroque Hoedown," otherwise known as the Main St. Electrical Parade theme song. They also made a version of "One Note Samba" which was-- YES you're about to hear correctly-- SAMPLED by Stereolab. No. They didn't just make a song that sounds exactly like it. They sampled it on Transient Random Noise-Bursts. Three songs on that album, actually, bear the Perrey-Kingsley trademark-- "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" opens with some P-K electronic noises, the end of "I'm Going Out of My Way" has the "One Note Samba" sample, and then "Lock Groove Lullaby" (and thus the album) ends with a short loop from (I believe) "The Savers." Check on this! It's worth buying and returning their double disc anthology of four full albums (two of them solo by Perrey, but barely a difference in style when Kingsley left), The Out Sound from Way In! All the songs I've mentioned, though, are on Spotlight on the Moog.

"Most of all, I remember the sun." - Colin Moulding in XTC's "I Remember the Sun" from The Big Express