Audiometric December 23 2023
SAD & XMAS too - Volume 7*

selected & mixed by Black Sifichi

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The Playlist :—

DrØm - Abhaya
Portishead - Sour Times
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Lady of the Island
Scott Walker And The Walker Brothers - Angels Of Ashes
Kraftwerk - Geiger Counter
Johnny Cash - I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
Elvis Presley - If Every Day Was Like Christmas
Kronos Quartet - Tallis, Thomas - Spem In Alium (Sing and Glorify)
Lou Reed - Sad Song (Live Berlin: at St. Ann's Warehouse)
Marc Almond & Foetus - Healthy As Hate
Bob Dylan - Standing In The Doorway
The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Damon Albarn - Hollow Ponds (LP ‘Everyday Robots’ from Letgo)
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Summertime
Eartha Kitt - Thursday's Child
Gato Barbieri - It`s Over (Last Tango In Paris)
Don McLean - Vincent
DrØm - Omidvâri
Katie Melua - Wonderful Life
The Beatles - Sea Of Time
John Lennon - Imagine (Take 1)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go (12 ‘’)
Martin Del Carpio - November (Black Rose)
Sufjan Stevens - Amazing Grace
boygenius - Emily I'm Sorry (official video)
Harry Nilsson - Remember (Christmas)
Robert Goulet - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

FIN de Sad - A new series is coming!

*In some curious way I should dedicate the SAD series to my dead mother Marie Grace, and to her Grundig, a very large stereo tube radio in our 1960’s living room playing melancholic music by Mancini, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdink, Robert Goulet, and more ‘easy listening’ after midnight with the glowing green eye for perfect tuning. She would sew and make clothes of her design until 4am as I listened from my bed. Today I propose ‘boygenius’ , ‘DrØm’, ‘Damon Albarn’, ‘Katie Melua’, ‘Martin Del Carpio’ … to show that sadness can be the centre of a song in modern music.

Happy Xmas & Holiday Season . The blues can be a good inner translator.

He told her that he was really fucked off, tired of the ruling politicians. She told him that the war would recede like the clouds on TV .…
He told her — ‘Merry Christmas’ — turned and walked back into the masses.

— Black Sifichi

« …And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so. »
William Shakespeare* — Julius Caesar

Note: « I only came to Paris for a month, since then, I’ve decided to stay on for two or three. » 
— Audiometric of course….
B. Sifichi

Sadness is a relative emotion.