Wind of Change

Amazing podcast investigating whether "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions was written by the CIA to further the opening of the cold war East Europe. Wonderful facts. About the Glomar expedition, where a fake mining ship grabbed parts of a Russian nuclear submarine. Asking the CIA for information resulted in the very first "we cannot confirm or deny"... Being glomarred, it's now called. About how the CIA, via front companies, made musicians go to communist countries. Maybe even Nina Simone, without her knowing it (she hated the USA, denounced it, calling it the United Snakes of America)

Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - "Strange Fruit"

Found while searching for the Siouxie and the Banshees song with the same title. Typical Joe & Beth song. Slow and melodic. Sometimes almost James Bondish. Cover of Nina Simone? Of Billie Holiday? Of all of them!?

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* Tanita Tikaram - "Play Me Again" (Sentimental)
* Emiliana Torrini - "Today Has Beek OK" (Fisherman's Woman)
* Nina Simone - "Little Girl Blue" (Little Girl Blue)

Nina Simone - "Remixed and reimagined"

First track, "I can't see nobody", remixed by a certain Daniel Y. I realise it's probably sacrilege to many people to even think about remixing Nina Simone, but while listening to the first track I think, well, she does have the voice for it... the swung of her words, it does seem to fit the strange beats.

But after a few more tracks, it becomes fairly monotone. Now breakbeatish music has never been much of my taste, so that might be a problem here, but I doubt this one is on my squeezebox to stay.

By the way, "reimagined", is that really so different from "remixed"? To the connaisseur perhaps, but remixing a track well, doesn't that require re-imagining the song in the first place?