Sometimes, the most simply beautiful stuff ends up in my email.
A long-time Resonator reader, DJ Koob, pointed me, earlier this morning, towards this: what has turned out to be, in my listening thus far, a spectacular, treated with fragile-hearts and careful-hands, set of reworkings of simply classic singer-songwriter stuff. The version of Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” (don’t chuckle or huff, indie kids, you know that Win Butler dreams at night of screen doors, porch swings and girls named Mary with dirty bare feet and torn white cotton dresses) is life-changing, but it’s this, this not-so-subtle but still graceful, gracious and glorious refix of one of my favorite love songs ever, that has me cycling it over and over in iTunes this morning.
Nico: I’ll Keep It With Mine (Pocketknife’s Odd Beauty mix)
There’s a way about how Pocketknife handles this, keeping that rumbling trance synth just below Nico’s fragile quiver, the voice that’s always in danger of breaking but refuses to show, that makes this remix live up to its’ subtitle-this is the definition of fragile beauty.
I can’t help it
If you might think I’m odd,
If I say I’m not loving you for what you are
But for what you’re not.
Everybody will help you
Discover what you set out to find.
But if I can save you any time,
Come on, give it to me,
I’ll keep it with mine.
This is a heartbreaker. The rest of the Tambourine Dream stuff operates in a similar blood vein, something close to a less hipster-aesthetic Pocket Mix (as in, there’s no hard eurohouse Cat Power remix that’s going to tear Res in half with in-fighting on this album) than what’s going on in the remix-madness circles right now. Just some great, great stuff, and I’m certain more from it will find a way on here. For now, though, may your skies be cloudy today, as so you’ve an excuse to have this as your soundtrack.
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