Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.
This is “Mariana” by Uz Jsme Doma:
Last Saturday I went to the Walpurgisnacht All-dayer at The Windmill in Brixton. Mike Watt was the headliner, and it was a great line-up of bands from start to finish, including, to my surprise (I hadn’t paid a lot of attention to the line-up beforehand) and real joy, Czech band Uz Jsme Doma. About fifteen years ago my buddy Andy gave me a cassette of Uz Jsme Doma (on the other side was the first Firewater album), and I loved it. Big riffs, complicated rhythms, vocal harmonies, a trumpet, an Eastern European folk edge: this was something both familiar and excitingly new. Last Saturday was only their second London gig in thirty years. I hope they come back sooner for their third.
I feel short-changed. This is mean’t to be a Song of the Week show and you don’t even refer to the song. I was going to boycott the song (and leave you to deal with the consequences), especially as the band seemed to play a type of music that doesn’t fall within the 3 accepted genres of music, but I decided to have a listen since I’d already come this far. Fortunately, I’ve always loved a Pharoah sliding down a Shard so the video makes complete sense. To me.