She knows how silly a line like When we collide a cannon has exploded sounds. She doesn t care. I suppose there was a time when this kind of summer singing meant something to me, but not anymore. All I think of when I hear it is what it strives to ignore. That summer is also when love can die, when the person sitting next to you on the beach as fireworks fly over a seaside Ferris wheel can turn as cold as ocean water disappearing into white foam under a winter moon.
Sleep actually glisten more the longer they smolder.
There isn t the slightest pause between any of the tracks on Thirteen Tales , just one big schmeer of good-rockin vibes cresting and troughing for the length of this ode to, well, hipness. Coolness doesn t have to mean coldness. There s a story that, as a child, future singer-songwriter George Mamua Telek nibbled a sacred betel nut and bridged his dreams to the tales of his ancestors, providing the inspiration for his euphonic, mellifluous music. Widely respected in his native Papua New Guinea, where he represents the heritage of the Tolai culture, Telek has also toured extensively in Australia since 1990. But it wasn t until last year that he recorded Serious Tam at Peter Gabriel s Real World Studios for a debut U.S. release, collaborating with David Bridie of the now-defunct Australian band Not Drowning Waving.