I know it's an overused saying but in what is a potentially stressfull time, music really is important and the recent purchases I've made really have been helpful.
I didn't get into bed until just before 1am as I spent the remainder of the night listening to the Carmen Lundy album "Come Home" that I brought in Soul Brother and it didn't sound like the CD had been damaged at all so it was a lucky discount.
The album's not too bad either, not her best one ever but there's some stand out tracks with my favourites being the album opener "Lost In San Rafael", and "Afrasia" which includes some children singing at the beginning which is impressive.
If you compare that and a few of her other albums released in the last decade or so, and compare them to her first album "Good Morning Kiss" from 1985 you can tell that her voice has become more soulful and more deeper over time, compared to her rather jazzy sounding voice from back in the day.
It's nowhere near as manly as Amy Winehouse however and her backing band and players have more or less stayed the same whilst she's worked with other musicians as well.
Although I've still got a few other albums to listen to, the Jiva album is still my favourite with my favourite track being "Shine" and I've been playing that quite a lot in the last few days including on my soul show.
Most of the song titles aren't exactly original but that's not the point as the actual tunes are stunning and tick all the right boxes musically. Although one of the tracks I played on Wednesday was called "This Love" and rather predictably my link after that went along the lines of "and this album really hasn't taken it's toll as I'll be playing two more tracks next week" .
At least it's not as bad as Tony Blackburn who has to link every song title to the next although you'd expect him to do that anyway.
Basically if you liked the Sunburst Band's most recent album "Moving With The Shakers" or any of Incognito's stuff then Jiva's "Day Into Night" is heavilly reccomended.
They're also albums that are much needed around this time of year when things get a bit too stressfull.
I'm up in the SADiE rooms editing the Caporeira interview I did a couple of weeks ago and there's a lot of actuality that I want to include as well from the class itself. I would have burnt a copy of the CD that they were using but they through us out of the main hall before I even had a chance so that makes things a bit more tricky for me.
Luckily as I'm going back to Canterbury tonight, I may see if Dad still has his Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan CD from 20 years ago as that's probably the closest I may get to finding any appropriate music for this part of the feature.
I'm hoping to get my interview with Concha done before 8:30pm in order to see the grand final of the 2008 series of "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" where I'm hoping the Bushtucker Bonanaza will make a return, where one of the celebrities takes part in a banquet and given the choice of luxury dishes such as spaghetti bolognaise or sausage and mash, or otherwise to go with kangroo penises or a koala's anus which usually results in great viewing.
Previous victims include Jennie Bond, last year's winner Christopher Biggins and probably worst of all Paul Burrell who struggled to devour a pair of (or at least one of) kangaroo testicles.
It should be an enjoyable finale to a very good series and possibly the first one in four years that I've been paying attention to.
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