© Noga Erez (via YouTube)
© Noga Erez (via YouTube)
© Noga Erez (via YouTube)
Recently rediscovered Noga Erez through her relatively current single Nails (feat. Missy Elliott) and I can’t fathom how nonfamous she still seems to be despite her obvious talent.
Just listen to the new song and those amazing performances of ‘Views’ and ‘End Of The Road’ from her 2021 Album ‘Kids’ —which is still available as limited coloured vinyl:
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Bordeaux Concert is a special document from Keith Jarrett’s last European tour. Each of Jarrett’s 2016 solo piano concerts had its own strikingly distinct character, and in Bordeaux the lyrical impulse is to the fore.
© Amistat (via YouTube)
Please treat yourself kind
Give yourself a gentle year
The next lines we’ll receive from you will tell the storm has cleared
Folks, we’ve entered melancholic-music-season again! Let’s celebrate with this hauntingly beautiful stripped-down version of Brave by Amistat recorded during a Live Session From Home.
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It finally hits me, a mile’s drive
The sky is leaking, my windshield’s crying
I’m feeling sacred, my soul is stripped
Radio’s painful, the words are clipped
The National is always a win, and so is Bon Iver. The yesterday released song Weird Goodbyes is just as hauntingly beautiful of a collaboration as you’d expect from those two bands.
© NPR / FKJ (via YouTube)
It’s about looking for a way out. Out of the adult mind. Well here I am, not being able to move much, with limited choices. Pretty much like when I was a kid, but where did my innocence go? Is it all in the head? Let’s pretend I know nothing then. Like when i first started. Let’s do it just for the play.
The recently released album ‘VINCENT’ by Vincent Fenton aka French Kiwi Juice –respectively the abbreviation FKJ– was the soundtrack of our trip to Italy lately. Last week the vinyl version of the wonderful album dropped, and the American nonprofit radio company NPR published an amazing tiny desk (home) concert with the french multi-instrumentalist and singer. I recommend everything; a trip to Italy, the album –especially in the form of the double LP– and of course the NPR concert.
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A new single by Beyoncé with a somewhat surprising sound; BREAK MY SOUL heavily relies on (classic) house samples, really curious if her whole new Album Renaissance –dropping 29 July– is going to sound similar?
© LDC / Crown Record Co., Ltd. (via Youtube)
Nice Japanese Compilation of Jazz, Funk, Ambient, Rock, and World called On The Beach. The LP was originally released in 1985 and is available as a YouTube video nowadays. The ideal soundtrack –and video– for some summer/holiday vibes, here is its tracklist:
- Taeko Ohnuki (大貫妙子) – Summer Connection
- Shigeru Suzuki (鈴木茂) – テレスコープ (Telescope)
- Shigeru Suzuki (鈴木茂) – ラハイナ・ガール (Lahaina Girl)
- Shigeru Suzuki (鈴木茂) – Brandy Wine
- Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣) – Hurricane Dorothy
- Kaze (風) – 海風 (Umi Kaze)
- Kaze (風) – 3号線を左に折れ (3-Gousen o Hidari ni Ore)
- Yuko Tomita (とみたゆう子) – 海のキャトルセゾン (Umi no Cattle Saison)
- Ryohei Yamanashi (山梨鐐平) – 熱い恋 (Atsui Koi)
- Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣) – Exotica Lullaby
© Phoebe Bridgers / Dead Oceans (via Youtube)
Another beautiful piece of music by Phoebe Bridgers. She wrote Sidelines for the soundtrack of ‘Conversations With Friends’ where a lot of the great-looking footage for the music video was taken from. The melancholic song furthermore is featured in the Trailer of the Hulu series.
© ARD / Alligatoah (via Youtube)
Ich mix’ uns Grippeviren mit Brausetabletten /
Nur wenn wir außer Gefecht sind, könn’n wir auch mal relaxen /
Ich verschiebe die Termine bis in alle Ewigkeit /
Viel zu viel zu tun für das bisschen Lebenszeit /
— Alligatoah feat. Felix Brummer – Beinebrechen
ardmediathek.de/video/friends-of-mdr-sputnik/friends-of-alligatoah
© Sigrid (via Youtube)
When the world is on your shoulders /
And the weight of your own heart is too much to bear /
Wеll, I know that you’re afraid things will always be this way /
It’s just a bad day, not a bad life
— from Bad Life by Sigrid feat. Bring Me The Horizon
Looking forward to the second album “How To Let Go” by Norwegian singer and songwriter Sigrid to be released on Friday, three years after her debut “Sucker Punch”.
© Love Hultén (via YouTube)
This beautiful wooden sound machine called TE-LAB by audiovisual artist Love Hultén is inspired by the Turntable Sequencer from Lomond Campbell and built around modules from Swedish electronics company and design studio Teenage Engineering —whose products and design language I admire a lot.
Read more about this unique instrument on the company’s blog.
© Nina Simone (via YouTube)
After a wonderful, warm and sunny Sunday with the family, this is my current mood —or at least it was before turning on the news: My Baby Just Cares For Me by Nina Simone remixed by HONNE.
Loving the vibes of the video as well, I really can’t wait for summer to begin and travel again. It has been years since I’ve dipped my toes into the ocean.