Day 1 or rather Week 1.
Wim Lecluyse’s request.
I knew one day, sooner or later I would have been invited to do a list for my 10 records that kind of influenced me.
I will just follow different rules. I’m not sure I can do this daily for ten consecutive days, so I will do this weekly, for ten consecutive weeks. And was it limited to compilation and soundtracks? I will do one that includes albums and compilation.
”I Can See Where I Am Now” by Wio.
The third time I put my feet outside the Italian border, it was to go to what would have become my second home: Belgium.
I learned a lot of things while there, some very important lessons:
1) Always bring a raincoat, k-way or umbrella when you prepare your backpack for a holiday in Belgium, because “rain is typical”, so typical that they even have it written on t-shirts.
2) Don’t trust cheap beers with what you judge from appearence to be uninteresting labels, because you can end up drinking a Westmalle Tripel from the bottle without noticing it is 9,5% ABV.
3) The Belgian scene of hometapers is really interesting.
I received my copy of ”I Can See Where I Am Now” from Wio himself, after a gig I saw in a theatre in Brugge when I absolutely had no idea of where I was going.
”I Can See Where I Am Now” is a collection of songs recorded between ’94 and ’97, some had already made their appearance on tapes, one was recorded live by the dutch radio VPRO and some were recorded specifically for this record.
A corelease between (K-RAA-K)3 and Slowball.
It features the Violinator, the same violinator that was at the gig and now that I read again the liner notes after years, also, Ed Nolbed on one song, Belgium’s Wildest Pigfarmer?
I have played this album hundred times and especially the songs ”Langinstrumentaal”, ”Avignon Migennes” and ”That Rainy-Sunday-Afternoon Feeling”, the title of this last one is self explanatory and I heavily recommend you not to play the song when it is raining, and it’s winter and the town is empty because is Sunday, and, of course, the last two tracks, those that turned my infatuation into love. ”Since You Started Wearing Those Blue Jeans And The Zorro Mask” and ”Mathematics” that leaves me with the unresolved question: what was Wio printing?
