Shhh! I am sleeping.

I’m unwell, you understand: snivelling and bed-ridden. Limbs like mince and burning eyes. Pestilent coughing. Lost my voice.

Remedial songs, then, are required. And those without vocals, furthermore: lead me not into (karaoke) temptation whilst I recline in self-pity and bed sores.

This week’s prescription, I venture, is thus:

Jack Rose – Flirtin’ With The Undertaker
Pelt’s primordial, bewitching axe-doctor administers finger-picking, ear-prickling, skin-prickling marvel by way of a hammer-on sunny ranch canticle whose grim designate belies restorative delight.

Goran Brevogic – Tale II (Adagio Poco Febrile)
Sarajevo’s soundtrack aristocrat Bregovic here eschews his signature brew of funeral music, wedding music, gypsy japes and eastern folk for a stunning, unadorned string adagio whose cadences ease malady like a salve.

Peter Walker – Second Song
Celestial sitar and psychedelic flute scuttling from a great but oft-unrecalled raga trailblazer: Walker’s acute Indian-infused 60s guitar musings elevate spirits and eradicate ailments.

OOIOO – Grow Sound Tree
Boredoms’ drum-sorceress and Sonic Youth / Flaming Lips deity Yoshimi P-we – here at the wondrous helm of OOIOO – fries addled brains and influenza germs with a mesmeric, narcotic, primal psyche-lullaby.

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