Kirk Degiorgio Presents Esoterik – Starwaves

Today is a day for stars and to say its good to laugh and cry.

Starwaves sets out on the time trip path of future disco with an air which may date the track to The Orbit in Leeds but soon takes it further back to the late 70s and drops in on the early 80s on the way.

Parts of this venture into Eric Clapton covering YMO, but we are not afraid.

It is italo in the Alden and Serge way we love but, as with all things 20jfg, it takes in the Miami Vice sunset and Kraftwerks Spacelab in its Carpenter car drive. No wonder Mr Degiorgio always looks so smug.

For those of you wanting to play this in a more mainstream club check out the Spirit Catcher remix.

Bishi – Magus

Bishi is a star and no denying, in the real old school style of before celebrity.

One of the rare few with genuine charisma, once met, never forgotten she moulds a special place in your heart even after the exchange of just a few lyrical tones.

Musically akin to Sir Patrick Wolf, Sir Simon Bookish and Lords Animal Collective but with a perspective on young folk tainted by her London upbringing with an audible Bengali music heritage, there is nothing trendy, contrived or try hard about Bishi, it’s a completely natural outpouring you hear and feel in her joyous live performances.

Perhaps in style, a club kid born too late, along with Ryan Styles there is a deep honesty here that transcends all the bitchyness and drugyness you would associate with the overtly sylish clubbing youth of London, bringing a new generation of genuinely talented superstars who reside in the pretensions and aspiration but poses enough talent and commitment to actually become their dreams and desires.

You’ve got to have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you going to have a dream come true? wrote Rogers and Hammerstein and in the time honoured unchanged reverence, wishing yourself into escaping your own limitations worked for the ugly duckling, Roxy Music, Judy Garland, Scott Walker and Kraftwerk.

Your own perception of reality may be your only boundary. Don’t dream it. Be it.

Jacques Brel – Voir Un ami Pleurer

Never one to accept circumstances beyond his own control Mr Brell is a shining example of thee pretencious artist.

Where there is fun and laughter, he finds depression and where there is death and misery he bring mirth and a sly wit of black humour that somehow manages to alleviate what we must all have experienced in those moments. Fatalism is stared in the face and out witted, without acceptance, the turn of the screw is thrown at every try.

His physicality and sheer presence as a troubadour defied the inner traditional boundaries of an artist to live in just one genre, but he is always and undeniably a true romantic.

This is is a heart and head in hands song to all Jaques and our friends, those who we believe in.

Jacques Brel is alive and living in all true artists hearts today and forever.

We are 20jfg. We always were and thanks to you dear reader we always will be.

This weekend, just for us, forget about who you are and remember who you wanted to be, try a little harder to be that. Tell a few truths, rejoice in life, and above all, be yourself.

This post is dedicated to Miss Mundane, Jack, Spoilt Victorian Child, Leigh and Steady, who made all our own reality a little brighter by transending theirs.

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