La Casa Encantada: July 2014

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Loafing: La Casa Encantada Show 24 - May 9th 2014

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 24 - "Loafing" May 9 2014 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

This was our last show of the season and as such, Popoff and I celebrate our coming holidays and our inalienable and self-evident right to laziness. Like a couple of sloths, we loaf and invite your souls to be part of our rolling in the grass.

With Alberto Beltrán's famous "El negrito del batey" ("work is my enemy / and i leave all working to the ox / because work was created by God as punishment" - el trabajo para mi es un enemigo / el trabajar yo se lo dejo todo al buey / porque el trabajo lo hizo Dios como castigo), Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, Tom Waits on shore leave, Don Tosti getting tírili, Tennessee Ernie Ford, los Churumbeles de España, Machito, Lola Flores y Antonio Gonzalez and more!

Sorry we were so lazy we could not load this show for over two months! Who wants to work anyway?


Popoff, your Ghost Host and an improptu unknown loafing friend, preparing this show.

The Ghost Host and his Wonderful Creature Popoff

The Ghost Host, who has been known to morph into different creatures —such as the Black Cat, the Ballroom Ghost, the Raven, the Spanish Professor, the Aging Man or the Egyptian Lady, to name a few—, lives in the Haunted House (La casa encantada). There he hears voices from the past speaking in tongues. He discovered a treasure of old records with moldy dusty grooves hidden in a crypt and covered by cobwebs, which is what you will hear at the House.
Popoff is the ghost's faithful yet shady servant, a creature born in the House out of an unholy matrimony of chance and chemistry.
Beware of bizarre spells in chants from all around the world, bewitching songs with such absurd names as rumbas, cumbias, mambos, guarachas, soukous, bulerías, bombas, guajiras, plenas, fox-trots, hot dances, hulas, tamures, ragas and many many more.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here, and put on your dancing shoes!