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[alonewiththemoon]

Various reviews I've encountered of the new Beirut ep all tend to say that while the first half of the ep, the Mexican funeral band half, is good, the electronic half falls flat--I rather disagree.  The Mexican funeral band half is good but nothing new from Beirut really.  But I found the electronic half fresh and interesting.  The songs remind me of Kathy's Song era Apoptygma Berzerk, when there was a sort of touching innocence and optimism to their music and before they went all bloated and self-important.  And that's my two cents on that.

Today I am going to eat everything edible that comes within my reach, plus other items that I go seek out.  It is going to be that kind of day.  Luckily I have dance class tonight, with a teacher who has been putting us through 15-20 minute shimmy drills at the end of every class ;-)
 
A lot of fun in Amira Jamal's class last night.  We worked on drum solos and different versions of Habbena, one of which was a crazy funky jazzy brassy one by a band called Vagabond Opera.  It was so silly you just had to give in to it.  Especially if you are nepenthe01 ;-)
 

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[meddevi.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I wonder if it's the same Vagabond Opera that's performing at the Edison on Saturday night after the Gothla Gala. I want to see the Edison so bad, and it's only $10 to get in...even if I will be running around like a nut all day, functioning on no sleep.

[alonewiththemoon]

The woman who brought the track said they were from the West Coast, so I'd bet it is! She said they do all kinds of entertaining stuff, a song about wanting to be Marlene Dietrich, St. James Infirmary, Arabic classics, etc.

[nepenthedreams]

They sounded quite cool from the description of the other things they do.

I wouldn't want to be caught by surprise dancing to them, but I would definitely see one of their concerts.