Dear Sinister I have finally found the perfect soundtrack for Christmas: the Lillywhite Sessions, by Dave Matthews Band. I remember reading in here someone asking if it would be a complete contradiction liking B&S and DMB, and I don't think it is at all! In fact, I feel like there is something of complementary between DMB and B&S, as if the Dr. Jekyll part of me listened to B&S and the Mr. Hyde part to DMB, or vice-versa - as Robert Louis Stevenson is some kind of Scottish national author of the XIXth century , the metaphor sounds more than appropriate. For anyone who hasn't heard of it before, the "Lillywhite Sessions" is the perfect DMB unreleased album, much better than the blockbuster "Everyday" and much, much darker, lower and heartfelt. The tracks are flying from HD to HD through the internet and pleasurably I managed to have'em on my own in august. When my mother was decorating the tree, and my father was coming from shopping, I was listening to track 6, "Captain", and realised it just fit for the moment. But I don't really know why. Somehow, everything made sense. I will try listening again to my Aimee Mann records. I suspect they're going to fit too, as much as my recently acquired Ellen Cherry material (thanks, Mel!). Tomorrow I am starting the rehearsals for a CD I will record late January, with my own compositions, which I am going to play on piano, alongside a female singer and flautist, a percussionist and a bass player. Ok, it's gonnna be a Ben Folds Five-like record, but that was not on purpose. These were simply the available musicians. Unpleasurably all the lyrics are in portuguese, so I will not be able to share the results with everyone in full. But I will try to write bilingual sleeve notes. Wish me luck, please... Everybody needs some. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+