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What is new is that after eight or ten months of convalescence from illnesses (mine), deaths and near-deaths(other peoples’) and the resulting emotional troubles (also mine), I’m back up and about to move out of the house again, and I’ve started school again in a new program that doesn’t make me want to tear fistfuls of hair out, including the hair on my face. In fact, if anyone catches me bitching about this program, they are welcome–no, invited–to smack me. Also I decided I am going to spend as much time out of the house as possible, and try to meet new people which I should do, granted I’ve just signed on for three more years here. I’ve actually started making some tentative attempts at the latter with some good results even though I have discovered that I am for one incurably awkward and for another I eat sushi like a hooved mammal (shut up, I have big hands). So, the songs. The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud was the band that Albin Julius had before Der Blutharsch. Not sure what I think of the whole album, which is really pretty different from what I know of Der Blutharsch, but nevertheless there are a couple of great songs on this, and I love the vaguely cabaret-y atmosphere on this one. And as for Slapp Happy, it’s a fun song. It will be the soundtrack to something one of these days, like walking down Main Street with a duck or a cat, but for now it’s just good to listen to.

Download: Slapp Happy-Me and Paravati,
Download: The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud-Track 4
Buy the Album: Slapp Happy-Acnalbasac Noom.The name of the album by The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud is Amara Tanta Tyri, but it’s apparently totally unavailable, at least I can’t find it for sale anywhere, so instead look at this Kokoschka painting, er kam doch auch aus Österrech.