The Terribly Strange Bed (Zorić-Ristić)
The Terribly Strange Bed
I recall there being
portraits on the wall
with stiff, painted eyes
rolled round in the dark
 
on the wall across
from my bed and the other
in the room upstairs
where we all slept
 
as those eyes kept looking
the persons behind
about to kill me
only in sleep safe.
 
Robert Creeley

The Terribly Strange Bed

Henley On Thames (Zorić-Ristić)

Henley-on-Thames
 
I see the winding water make
A short and then a shorter lake
      As here stand I,
      And house-boat high
Survey the Upper Thames.
    By sun the mud is amber-dyed
    In ripples slow and flat and wide,
    That flap against the house-boat side
And flop away in gems.
 
In mud and elder-scented shade
A reach away the breach is made
      By dive and shout
      That circles out
To Henley tower and town;
    And “Boats for Hire” the rafters ring,
    And pink on white the roses cling,
    And red the bright geraniums swing
In baskets dangling down.
 
When shall I see the Thames again?
The prow-promoted gems again,
      As beefy ATS
      Without their hats
Come shooting through the bridge?
    And “cheerioh” and “cheeri-bye”
    Across the waste of waters die,
    And low the mists of evening lie
And lightly skims the midge.
 
John Betjeman

Henley On Thames

Seven Feet Long

Granny’s Boot (Kodagain)
Music - Cho
Guitar - Pekar
Lyrics - Spike Milligan
Granny in her bed one night Heard a little squeak!
And then a little peck-peck-peck
Like something with a beak
Then something that went Binkle-Bonk Ickle-tickle-toot
And all of it was coming
From inside Grandma’s boot!
Then the boot began to hop
It went into the hall
And then from deep inside the boot Came a Tarzan call
The sound of roaring lions
The screech of a cockatoo
Today that boot is in a cage
Locked in the London Zoo.

Granny’s Boot

Sometimes It's Enough

Sometimes it's enough just to talk.
There's no need to sing or scream,
To cling to, or repeat anything.

So that when I'm dead
Some funny little thing I said
That came into my head
Without straining for effect
You will remember exactly
Without needing anyone or anything
To explain its meaning.

Sometimes it's enough
Just to say the words
And walk out the door.

Quentin S.Crisp
Music Saša Zorić

Sometimes It's Enough

Muzika i vokal: Saša Zorić
Gitara: Aleksandar Manojlović
Tekst: Isidor Igić

Kodagain & Isidor - Navikla si

Prendi Le Misure

 
KӣR is the solo production epithet of WhyBaneWhy, resident DJ of Belgrade’s hallowed halls of techno, Drug§tore. WhyBaneWhy’s sets incorporate a wide range of influences to travel far off beaten paths drawing in influences from techno to new wave, incorporating power electronics, obscure ambient, folk music, twisted echoes found lost deep in wormholes and whatever else it takes to get you feeling thoroughly unsettled, lost and disorientated whilst working up a sweat. KӣR takes all this and pushes it farther using hardware, live. Its visceral music, embracing drone, repetition, rippling soundscapes and obscure sonic horizons, sailing confidently where many others dare not venture. Shaman music, drum led hypnosis. KӣR gifts us with a deep tribal mix, at turns dark and disorientating, others beautiful and light. This is music from the other world coming to take you home. 

http://digital-tsunami.org


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Kӣr - Altro non è'l mi'amor

da li to drveće
stoji ili putuje?

zato što odlaziš
vetar se ne čuje

prate te rasute
nemarno bačene
na put raznešene
glave lutaka

da li te planine
čekaju il' idu

napred je tišina 
iza je obala
suva bez ikoga

a sirova duga
i zauvek živa
bela linija

da li su koferi
lenji i prašnjavi
nacrtaj oblake
pusti da odlete

na put

tamo negde
oni te čekaju 
meko ti govore 
u snu te odaju

Kodagain feat. Isidor - Pastoral

Kodagain formed in 1985 in Knjazevac, SE Serbia, where it’s hard to be alternative but easy to be alone. 
 
Kodagain writes and records songs with English lyrics because English is more musical than Serbian.
 
Many of the lyrics have been provided by the existing poetry of famous poets such as Dorothy Parker, Oscar Wilde, Chu-I Po (Bai Juyi), Lord Byron, Ogden Nash, Sara Teasdale, Louisa Stuart Costello and Robert Creely.
 
Since 2007, however, Kodagain has also been using translated poetry (e.g. Kaneko Misuzu) and original lyrics from the writer Quentin S. Crisp; since 2012, Kodagain has similarly collaborated with the writer Brendan Connell. They have also used the poetry and lyrics of other writers, including Loha Connell, Alberto Nessi, James Aronhióta’s Stevens and Justin Isis.  
  
Kodagain has a miniaturist approach to pop music, channelling influences from Henry Purcell, through Dean Martin, to Roxy Music, into short compositions combining a bubblegum-pop concern for melody with lo-fi experimentalism, resulting in songs as soulful as they are playful.
  
Not unlike the old Reggae studios in Jamaica in the 70’s and 80’s, Kodagain produces songs in enormous quantity – the musical equivalent of a cottage industry, where craft and feeling remain intact.
 
At the core of Kodagain's creativity are the songwriting skills, sinuous melodies and haunting, layered vocals of Saša Zorić Čombe, who also plays keyboards, bass, drum and guitar. 
 
Many musicians have been associated with Kodagain:
 
Dunat Dobrica 1984 – present (occasional) on bass and synths.
Aneta Zorić (née Milosavljević) keyboards, 1984-1987.
Janković Goran on drums, 1987 – 1993. 
Bojan Ristić on drum programmes.
 
Between 2005 – 2007 the line-up was as follows, for the album Commercial:  Slaviša Jelenković on drums, Ivan Todorović on electric guitar, Vladislav Dopuđa on bass and Joksimović Miljan on keyboards.
 
However, the core musicians, from 1987 – present, are:
 
Vladimir Ristić on guitar.
Vladislav Dopuđa on bass and keyboards.
Saša Zorić Čombe. 
 
Recently, there have also been musical collaborations with Alexandar Manojlović and Aldous Register. 
  
Kodagain's music has been played regularly on Gistro FM and The Power of the Witches on Radio B92, and on Pop Depression on Studio B. Their songs and videos can be found in generous supply on YouTube and SoundCloud. Albums include: Speed Up, The Nowhere Land's Echoes, A Drink With Something In It, 000, Vranje, Letters From Quentin, Time to Get Ready for Love, My Fear of His Fear of Death, and Supernatural.

A word or two from the lyricists:

Quentin S. Crisp says: “My pop music hero, from a young age, was David Bowie, but I’m afraid that his avowed adoption of the Burroughs cut-up technique has bequeathed to pop music an unfortunate legacy, whereby lyricists now equate being incoherent with being especially meaningful and groundbreaking. I remember reading a pop journalist lamenting that the trouble with poetic pop lyricists is that have all read the same handful of poems by Rimbaud, and don’t bother reading the more disciplined and understated verses by the likes of Larkin. I thought this was very true. I hope to write lyrics that are actually about something – to me, this seems the innovation of which pop is in need.”

Brendan Connell says: “My ultimate goal is to write a vast number of lyrics about natural wonders, public parks, lost watches, Indian villages, hidden love, birds, trees, mountain passes, fake Taoists, imperceptible colors, rhetorical mysteries, and flowers. Ideally these would be compounded into a ‘Guide for Modern Life’ which could be used to build better relations between workers and their bosses, the various sexes, and those whose religious beliefs differ.”



Sometimes It's Enough

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