The Roses Won’t Tell Your Secret: An August Mixtape

Blown out garage pop & lounge jazz exotica. Chambered folk & only one Dylan cover. With humidity and paranoia at an all-time high, it only felt right to re-visit to the foggy August mixtape. Tranquility is always tempting as an aural axis, but these things always seem to land somewhere in the middle of a torrid zone hypnosis. “Sally Go ‘Round the Roses” is the most agitated girl-group song I’ve ever heard, and maybe also the grooviest. Anita Carter’s crystalline echo country inspired Johnny Cash to dream of mariachi-style horns. “Look out!” cautions Anna Domino – her renegade post-punk dub steals away in the shadows of the night, while the naturalist new age ambience of Ernest Hood does so while scoring the sunset, early evening steam rising like from a kettle. | c depasquale

The Roses Won’t Tell Your Secret: An August Mixtape

Intro (Robot Delivers the Mail)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Artbeat
The Ox-Bow Incident – Reach Out
The Do’s and The Don’ts – No One to Talk My Troubles To
Pharoah Sanders – Moniebah [Edit]
Herbie Mann Quintet w/Sonny Sharrock – Memphis Underground [Live]
Sonny Sharrock – Hit Single
Theoreme – Let’s Start
Smith & Erickson – Sweet Dreams
Interlude (Offbeat Ring)
The Jaynetts – Sally, Go ‘Round the Roses
Spacebomb House Band w/Andy Jenkins – 30th Cent
Anita Carter – Love’s Ring of Fire
Interlude (Major Briggs’ Vision)
William Onyeabor – Ride on Baby
Blondie – The Disco Song
Vivien Goldman – Same Thing Twice
Benny Yurco – Flor Amarilla
“Auggie and Ulysses Go to the Library in The Human Comedy”
Chico Hamilton – Monday, Monday
BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Milky Way
Laurie Spiegel & Don Christensen – Donnie and Laurie
Anna Domino – Trust, In Love
Beverly Glenn-Copeland – Journeyman
Melanie – Some Day I’ll Be a Farmer
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – A Quiet Tear
Carole King – The Road to Nowhere
Mal Wadron – Warm Canto > Lloyd Charmers – Things Going Wrong
Aladean Kheroufi – Any Other Way (Jackie Shane)
Ernest Hood – August Haze
Alabaster DePlume – If You’re Sure You Want To
Judy Henske – Till the Real Thing Comes Along
Eduardo Mateo – Cuerpo y Alma
Gabriel Birnbaum – Half an orange crush on a blue recycling bin
Lloyd Charmers – Going in Circles
Interlude (William Leigh)
The Fall – Loop41 ‘Houston’ (Lee Hazlewood)
Sopwith Camel – Brief Synthoponia
George Harrison – Awaiting on You All
“Like the Tribble and the Unicorn”
Fairport Convention – Million Dollar Bash

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