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.
