Salvia "Rockin' Fuchsia" [click to embiggen]
The British weather continues to confound us all - yesterday and my birthday were mainly sunny (contrary to all forecasts by the Met Office), and today it has stayed warm yet grey and grizzly; all of which has meant I have been busy getting a few late-season pottering jobs done in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers including rearranging pots, shifting ones that are "over" and moving those yet to flower into their place. Our lovely local garden centre sent me a birthday voucher, which I put towards another beautiful new salvia [as above] yesterday (and I potted that up), and I also lugged home a sizeable new terracotta pot from Homebase today and repotted the Scilla peruviana into it (in the vain hope it might actually flower next year). Now I'm pooped.
Time, methinks, for a selection of some of the "newer" music that has caught my ear of late...
First up, a bit of class (with a capital "k"):
Something perhaps less classy, and quite bewildering - it came highly recommended from the "Cabinet of Curiosities" that is Dangerous Minds blog:
A very welcome return for "prime totty" Jake Shears with this one - apparently a "leftover" from an old Scissor Sisters session. It reminds me of something else, but I can't put my finger on it...
Next up, something that (again) is not new at all - it's from 2017, in fact - but I had never heard it until Jake's former bandmate Ana Matronic played it on her Radio 2 Dance Devotion show, so it counts as "new" as far as I'm concerned:
Speaking of "club bangers", M'Lud - this one definitely is a recent release, and it's faboo! [...and features just about everybody who is anybody in Noo Yawk's clubland in its video, to boot.]
Leaving the best to last, however - Miss Chachki's getting kinky again, with a song that bears more than a passing resemblance to Miss Kittin and the Hacker, or indeed several choons from the 1980s. Which is no bad thing, in my book!
Phew.
As ever, dear reader, enjoy - and let me know what you think!
I will listen tomorrow morning, whilst gazing at the drizzle.
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If last year was "The Year of the Pandemic", this year has to go down as "The Year that Summer Never Really Started"... Jx
DeleteThat Nat King Cole cover is rathe like PMJ. Thankyou for that one. The others? Not so much.
ReplyDeleteAnd I want that Salvia!
VOCES8 usually specialises in far more traditional and classical stuff, so this was quite an unexpected joy....
DeleteWe have become quite avid collectors of Salvias (and their relatives in the mint family such as Agastache, Monarda [although they don't particularly like our semi-shaded garden so we'll probably have to give up on them], Perovskia and Verbena) over the years. They are (mostly) very comfortable in pots, and generally (last winter's bitter temperatures aside, when they did suffer and we lost one or two) bounce back from anything the UK's climate can throw at them. I have been hankering after a bright pink guaranitica-type one for ages (as opposed to the various shades of blue and purple we already have), and this fits the bill rather well, methinks! Jx
All added to the 'Delargo' collection.
ReplyDeleteThis collection's going to be huge! Jx
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