Fruit wine / wilder sounds

In honor of Catherine O'Hara and the immortal "fruit wine" gag on Schitt's Creek, we shared half a bottle of the 2024 Emergence blend from Art + Science NW. Muscat and quince, weird and wonderful. They are maniacs with a dream. If you are a cheapskate explorer like me, they are currently running a closeout case sale.

This week at work has involved a lot of squinting at fine-grained detail in numbers and punctuation, so to keep my brain alive I went on a musical rabbit hole journey. It started with this lovely makaaruyen number from Madrotter - hold on until the whistling starts:

I wanted to know more, so I hit the dark alleys of YouChoob and found this lengthy playlist, which brought me to this lovely number:

This sweet and pretty video set in an unfamiliar countryside reminded me of the similar homespun videos coming out of the huayno scene in Peru/Bolivia (also a rabbit hole I've gone down), which brought me to Esther Suarez's awesome La Bolognesina.

Then I was listening to my library on shuffle and went down the Azerbaijani Gitara rabbit hole. Volume 2 in particular.

 

Outquacked

The boy (9 years old now) and I were looking at his car collection in a Hot Wheels game we checked out from the library, and I was talking to him in the voice of his duck puppet. As one does.

One of the cars was a vintage Packard. I dropped the dad/duck joke: Oh, ducks drive a Quackard. I thought that was pretty good as dad/duck jokes go.

His response: Oh, I thought you would say it's a Pochard. 

I gave him a blank stare and then looked it up at m-w.com:
Pochard
: any of various rather heavy-bodied diving ducks (especially genus Aythya) with a large head and with feet and legs placed far back under the body 

This kid!