Friday afternoon shuffle

I have been a total slug today with a hand that looks more and more like the boa constrictor in Le Petit Prince. So here is what's up on the play list.

Barber: Agnus Dei (Based On Adagio For Strings) • Robert Shaw Singers
Dorothy Masuka • Ngotsotsi
Jiggle the Handle • Walking Backwards
Michael Jones • Wind and Whispers
Giordano Morel • Cuanto Daria
Jon Mark • The Greenwood, The Briar And The Rose
Uakti • Xingu River
Simple Minds • Sanctify Yourself
Bobby McFerron • Discipline
Backstreet Boys • All I have to give

What a bizarre collection. The Barber is amazing simply for the soprano descant that takes a lone voice into the stratosphere (must be a 'B' or 'C'). Masuka is off one of the Simply World disks and not something I have really gotten to know yet. Jiggle the Handle came off a collection my nephew made for me and I have never been able to find it; I think it's a local Denver band. Michael Jones is one of those New Age pianists who has been plinking the keys for over 20 years. Throw in a bachata song to break up one New Age from the next, Jon Mark. The Mark songs are disks that came out in the late 1980s and I can remember listening to them as I worked for interlibrary loans at Firestone library at Princeton. We weren't supposed to listen to Walkmen as we worked but I had to spend all afternoon trundling a bookcart around the library collecting books and figured I was far away from my boss to do so. The Jakti is a combo classical guitar with South American instrumentation. Simple Minds — speaks for itself, some mid 1980s music. Wind things down with some Bobby McFerron and then finally liven things up with Backstreet Boys (Naomi was floored when she learned that I listened to them).