This is the latest Almanac, focusing on African sounds, and here’s a bit of something to get you in the mood:

There’s something hanging low in the sky tonight, you might see it, there.  The sky stretches out, since you are on a bit of a rise, with nothing at your back, the farthest reaches of a valley.  Dark mountains lie from one side of your lengthening vision to the other, with the pink edges drifting, streaking from the right to the left.  Above you is deep blue, littered with stars.  Expansive, and relatively empty with the exception of the far-off city which glitters with a hot mess of homes and lights and noise.  Lingering dust of the day stands in your throat as you look again, but can’t quite make out that thing in the sky, moving away slowly.

The album played is Love is Love, a Mississippi records release.

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This is the second mini-Almanac, and it’s pretty good.  Just imagine that I wrote it for you, listening wherever you are, on zuma beach, or perhaps on a train to Spain.  Maybe you live in Iceland, and you don’t know me yet, but we will be friends in February, when I reach your island small.  So grab your baby by the heel, and then just do whatever you feel.

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This episode is all about Die Radio Die, a local highschool band that could have made it big, and features many songs of theirs as well as exposition by yours truly.

New England Sunrise (Old)  7:05  Die Radio Die
Licoln Logs and Lumberjacks 6:31  Die Radio Die
The Chase 4:53 Die Radio Die
As Soon As Beauty Dies (Old)  3:54  Die Radio Die
Lover Left You Bleeding  4:18  Die Radio Die
Windy City (Breaking the Ties)  5:13  Die Radio Die
The Bartender 5:20 Die Radio Die
Life Is Beautiful (Old)  8:58  Die Radio Die

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I will be running the Die Radio Die show tonight at 6 p.m. on biolaradio.com, archived here immediately afterwards.

Look for the falling in love show next week.