Milton Nascimento - "Cravo e Canela". With his spice shop, Luis thought that he would get all the girls. Pots of nutmeg, jars of cinnamon peel: all this latent eroticism, he thought, all this sublimated sex. Instead, the spice shop was mostly hard work. It was mostly figuring out the cash-register. This was not some garden of earthly delights; it was a business of shavings, powders, pods, seeds, euros per gram. At first Luis was disappointed, returning home at the end of the day, but then his wife turned him around. [buy]

Baby Eagle & the Proud Mothers - "Strange Bodies". Drunk at a dinner party; you don't realize it until he knocks over a glass. He is not jolly, not fun: his mouth is a stern line, as if he has just been disciplined. Suddenly the champagne flute is a weapon. You are not worried for him but you are worried about those he loves. Maybe he will grow a third arm, in the middle of the night. Maybe he will break his desk. Maybe he will chop down the whole forest. Everyone at the dinner party is hoping that things will change when spring arrives, like ice dislodging a frozen hull. Oh no! [buy]

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Said the Gramophone was interviewed by the Guardian on Friday.

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