Jef Barbara & DannielRadall — On Mirror
from Cocaine Love EP (2011)
Oh gawd… you’re gonna need sunglasses for this one. This sounds almost just like that slinky synth jam by Italian pornstar Ilona Staller I posted a few weeks back… only she was singing about bedtime entertainment. These guys are serenading cocaine. Already lined up ‘On Mirror’ perhaps?
Funny, because I’ve been reading about white powder all week for a work-related assignment, the new book An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine. Did you know Freud used to get suited up in white tie and gloves, head to Parisian soirees populated with medicine’s best and brightest, and snort a little cocaine to “untie [his] tongue”? Yeah.. me neither.
Freud wrote his ode to cocaine, Über Coca, in 1884. You can grab this slightly less scientific modern tribute for free, courtesy of Mr Barbara, Mr Radall and the ever-great AM Discs.
