night and rain

Perfect Thursday night. City. Rain. Piano. Nils Frahm.

shadow kissing

There's nothing more relaxing (and neurotic ;)) than reorganising your CDs, enjoying new stereo and listening to some tropical sounds while it's raining outside.

some people like their oysters raw

It was a typical wet and windy London Winter's day made for staying indoors but Darius and Oshan, with Matt and Joe, were eager to busk for the crowds at Columbia Road Flower Market. Escaping the rain, after some cheeky negotiating with the owner, the guys performed in a tiny nook of a market stall Oyster Bar for customers and passers by. Read more on the The Turbans' session here. 



Some people like their oysters raw; and for them your job is easiest, for you have merely to pick out a dozen natives from the barrel, swill the brine from them, and place them, with a piece of parsley or cress, upon a plate. But for those who took their oysters stewed, or fried - or baked, or scalloped, or put in a pie - my labours were more delicate. Then I must open each oyster, and beard it, and transfer it to Mother's cooking-pot with all of its savoury flesh intact, and none of its liquor spilled or tainted. Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

truthfully & unconditionally

On this rainy Midsummer day chilly London serves truthfully mesmerizing sounds of Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Cherish the first time you are going to listen to this performance as it will stay within you and then it will start growing (as it has started within me). Unconditionally.



To get the EP of Ayanna click here.

cat in the box

No, it has nothing to do with Simon's cat. It's a bit more complicated.
In the town of my choice it's raining tonight.



Cat in the Box - a band to watch in 2012.