Pinboard (Monday 21st December 2020)

This batch of empty picture sleeves for singles has been selected from the output of independent record labels (e.g. Stiff, Rough Trade etc.)

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21.12.2020 (1641 hr)

Blip #3337 (#3087 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2020 #187/266 + #075/100 Extras
Day #3922 (840 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2480 (#2321 + 159 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Art series
Pinboard series
Treasure Trove series

Taken with Nikon Coolpix P900 (24-2000mm equivalent bridge camera)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Juluka - Scatterlings Of Africa (1982)
Although Scatterlings of Africa uses rousing and upbeat music, it contains musical elements that reflect the themes of the lyrics, including the use of  7/4 meter, denying the listener a regular downbeat. The song's introduction is played in a  4/4 meter. The song switches between major and minor keys, a device which, according to scholar Timothy Taylor, reflects its rejection of fixed views of identity and social position. It thus implies that "Everyone is a scatterling, everyone is displaced by apartheid, [everyone] is left without a stable home or identity."
As with other songs by Juluka, Scatterlings of Africais influenced by Zulu "ngoma" dance and associated music, as seen in the repeated cycle of "vocables", rendered as "Ji oyi hmm, oyi hmm hmm" in the introduction. The phrase is sung with prominent bass and a heavy beat. In the later portion of the song, the same phrase creates a counterpoint with the phrase "O lala, o lala", sung at a high pitch by the singer Johnny Clegg. (from Wikipedia)


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Silbury Hill