Day 155.
English Summer: wow this does sound up my street. This project from Clare, Australia, does make some classic indiepop!! Jangly, very Bodines-like, just how I like it. Their latest song is called “A New Colour For You” but do check their previous releases! Good stuff.
Pet: this LA band formed by Honor Nezzo, Neeraj Kane and Todd Cooper make an edgier style of indiepop. Their latest track is called “Blood Orange” and sounds good. Like what? I am trying to think, maybe the Heart Throbs? Could that be a good comparison? In any case have a listen and let me know what you think!
Hazy Sour Cherry: the Japanese band that features members of many Tokyo indiepop scene bands is back with a new song called “Summer demo” and how nice it is! It makes you want to dance. It is simple and sweet. Perfect for the summer.
Sleepy: last time I wrote about this cool Sydney project was back in March. Well back in May they put out a song called “Flowers” that is great and somehow I missed it. It is time then to make amends. It is time to share this great song which was recorded in isolation.
Key Out: the latest on the Australian label Half A Cow is a digital single by the band Key Out. There are 2 songs on this single, “Buildings”, which is available to preview, and “Chorus (An Heirloom Austeremix)” which is not. So yeah, I enjoy the one I can listen.
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Anna Felix: Bathing beauty that disguises herself as a pirate captain to avoid marriage to the cruel Dey of Algiers. She suffers the insults of market-women.
That’s the sort of bio that appears on the “Don Quixote. A Quixotic Musical Fantasy with the Touch of Siesta” CD compilation that the Spanish label released in 2002 (SIESTA 150). This is a lovely compilation with amazing songs. I have already written about one of the projects in it, C de Constancia, in the past. I thought picking another one today, Anna Felix.
Anna Felix is actually a character in the most important novel in Spanish language. Her lover was Don Gaspar Gregorio and she is the daughter of Ricote the Moor. But I am curious about the Siesta bio, mentioning she is a bathing beauty. See, Siesta had in many compilations a band called Bathing Beauty that sounded amazing. Was it the same person behind both of these projects?
I feel with Siesta everything was very secretive, a world of smoke and mirrors. That doesn’t help a fan like me. But we do know a few facts of course. For example in the aforementioned compilation Anna Felix released the only two songs we know she recorded, “But For Love” and “I Will”.
These two songs would later reappear on a handful of international compilation showcasing Siesta Records’ music.
In 2005 the song “But For Love” would appear on “Sol y Sombra. La Primera Alta Comedia Musical de Siesta” released on CD by Avant Garden (AG 1005) from Taiwan. Avant Garden would also release “The Music from Beautiful Spain Spring-Simmer 2005” (AG 1004) that would have “But For Love” in it. That same year “I Will” would be released on “El Cielo Azul – Music for Siesta” released by Rambling Records (RBCS-2116) in Japan.
In 2007 “But for Love” was to be included in “La Vie Est Belle” a compilation released by Jointt Corporation (JT9001) in Thailand. This compilation included songs licensed from not only Siesta but also from Elefant Records and Jabalina Musica.
Lastly in 2008 Avant Garden Records would again have “But For Love” in the compilation “Voces del Verano – The Exquisite Voices to Love”, a promo CD.
It was indeed other times. I don’t see these sort of licensing anymore.
And that’s that really. Nothing else on the web. I feel with Siesta bands and projects it ends up being almost impossible to find out who were behind these bands. Even more weird is that a lot of the songs are covers of somewhat obscure music (at least to me). And on the CDs Siesta doesn’t even credit the original writer of the song. For example I found that “But For Love” is actually written by Gene Pistilli from the band Cashman Pistilli & West, appearing as a B side on a 7″ single and also in the “Bound to Happen” album from 1968. And what about “I Will”? Is that a cover as well? Anyone recognize it?
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Listen
Anna Felix – But For Love
