Episode 37 - By Degrees
from The Great Longboat Podcast Hosted by Igor Keller
It's Igor's birthday! All hail! But the podcast forges ahead. This week, I've gotten a request from a DJ who likes to spin Longboat tracks to his intelligent and good-looking audience. He wanted me to feature "By Degrees," which is about the perdition of the soul. How can you tell if you've reached damnation? Well, it isn't easy. First you have to understand the nature of evil and how it advances. It doesn't suddenly knock on your door and move into your house. No, it's more of a gradual process, and its description is best accompanied by piano, vibraphone, chilly-sounding strings and accordion. Yes, accordion. A very nice lady played it in the band that day. You can even hear the keys clacking in the background. That's how you know it's a real instrument. And it doesn't get more real than an accordion, folks. I also talk about my fondness for Central/Eastern European cafe music from bygone times. In all, it covers some new and different territory.
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