Elephant GunI love opening playful guitar with easiness sound. I really like it so much. It makes me happy. Whole song is incredible. It's the best Beirut's song for me with no doubt. I have no word just last: "Enjoy!". My family's role in the world revolution Double piano start is great and vigorous start of all instruments together is disarming. The wall of sound ;-) Partly klezmer and partly balcan smashing march! Scenic world Longer and slower version of Gulag's original. I'm not sure what version is better or I like more... The both are very good. Decise yourself. The Long Island Sound Intermezzo. Theme from Elephant Gun. Short and nice. Carousels Your head will be swim. Swinging to the music. It's small vertigo on carousel.
Pompeii EP [Only eMusic release, February 28, 2007] Fountains and Tramways Beirut meets pop. Only automatic drums, melodic piano with some analog sounds and Zach's voice, without any "traditional" instruments which is specific for Beirut music, forms the most poppy song from Beirut. But It's really good. Not for everyone and not for the first listening.
Napoleon on the Bellerophon When I've recently read some comment of Beirut last EP "Lon Gisland" where the Zach Condon's voice have been resembled to Thom York from Radiohead I've realized that there is something to it :-) But I mean it like a tribute of course 'cause I love Radiohead and Thom York. Back to Beirut.In Napoleon on the Bellerophon dominates melancholic piano sound again to which join the energic trumpet and accordion at the end. Very atmospheric and full of emotions.
And short notice at the end > The new Beirut's albumThe Flying Club Cup will be released at October 9th.
"The record features the whole live band, as well as some notable contributions from Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy and Heather Trost of A Hawk And A Hacksaw. It is very much inspired by the music and culture of France, especially the emotional pull of a musician like Jacques Brel (whom you should really check out if you haven't heard him). We have a few fun surprises in store for the lead up to the album release, so keep vigilant on the internets." from Beirut's official web page.
Free mp3 > A Sunday Smile from incoming release The Flying Club Cup!
Yukimi Nagano, singer of electronica-jazz outfit Koop, and her band Little Dragon (featuring keyboardist Hakan Wirenstrand, bassist Fredrik Kallgren Wallin, and drummer Erik Bodin) will release their debut album on the great Peacefrog label this September. Sweden town Gothenburg is incredible cradle of talented musicians and bands like September Malevolence, Audrey, Jose Gonzales, El Perro del Mar and others. Little Dragon plays sooth and groovy alt-pop for ordinary moments and/or dancefloor. You can say (key)electronica meets soul spirit. But the best is Nagano's warm, caressing and heart-felt voice. So only the highest recommendation!
Official release dates: 2007|09|27 - Twice/Test |Single| 2007|10|09 - Little Dragon |CD| But you can buy and download the whole album from iTunes now ...
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I came across a new singer/songwriter for me yesterday. I discovered Jen Gloeckner on myspace.com by chance and so listened all songs there. I tell you I was fairly surprised and excited. She's really good! I know that her last release "Miles Away" is from 2005 but it doesn't matter. It's fresh and beautiful stuff for me anyway ;-) Her music is melange of pop, alt-folk with gloomy, jazz feeling. You can hear many kind of instruments on CD like guitar, keybords, mandolin, cello, percussion and flute etc. I highly recommend her album Miles Away.
Jen recalls, "When I wrote the material for the record, I wanted more than just singer/songwriter style songs." She adds "I understood that giving the music space to breathe on its own was very crucial in developing the moods that I wanted to create."
I dare say that Jen Gloeckner will be definitelly star in future after her next release. I hope she will as well as Norah Jones :-) MySpace > http://www.myspace.com/jengloeckner
Setlist Earth Intruders Cover Me Pagan Poetry Hunter All Is Full of Love Pleasure Is All Mine Joga Hope Army of Me Innocence I Miss You 5 Years Immature Wanderlust Hyperballad Pluto
Encore Introduction band Oceania Declare Independence
Jeremy is indie pop band which consists of Lars Christian Olsen (age 19) and Øivind Hatleskog (age 21). They come from Norweigen oil-town Stavanger where their career started in the spring 2004. Young duo plays "just" pop but very beautiful and captivating pop. In some review they was called happy-pop or sunshine-pop band :-) And yes, their music is really full of joy and energy. Try free mp3 or listen more songs on myspace and you can make certain of it by yourself. I definetely recommended.
Sondre Lerche is one of their fans, and he says this about Jeremy:
"The first time I saw Jeremy on stage I was struck by how refreshing it was to - for once - see two young singer/songwriters with guitars that did not exhaust you with their worries and whining, but rather expressed the unfiltered joy of playing music. It may sound strange and unexceptional, but it's actually pretty rare these days."
A new single Make Love, Not War will be released digitally May 21st in the world except in the US and Canada where the single will be released on June 19th. The song is produced by HP Gundersen (Sondre Lerche, Madrugada among others), it's B-side which is out later is a remix by portuguese Allen André Anjos(The Shins, Bloc Party, CSS, The Horrors, etcetc). Free mp3 > Make love, not war MySpace >http://www.myspace.com/jeremy
www.unkle77.com brings to us a new videoclip of single Burn My Shadow from third studio album James Lavelle's project UNKLE - War Stories. Starring Goran Visnjic (a croatian actor famous for "Spartacus" and Dr.Luka Kovac from TV series EP). We can start looking forward to featuring Ian Astbury (Cult), Josh Homme (Queen of the stone age), 3D (Massive Attack) and Autolux on upcoming release. I can't wait ...
After critically acclaimed Orchestra of Bubbles with Ellen Allien - Apparat comes out with new HOT release Walls. And I can say that this record is awesome. Apparat, aka Berlin's Sascha Ring, brings us mix of electro/laptop sound with catchy melodies, almost poppy songs. My favourites are Hallin From The Edge for trip-hop feeling, gentle Birds and Arcadia with Apparat's vocal.
"This record isn't really a focused and conceptual production," says Apparat. "It's more of a 'last-two-years of Apparat compilation.' That's why there's so much different stuff on it, a lot of different influences. And I really like it. I highly recomend with no doubt. Enjoy!
Tracklisting:
01 | Not A Number [3:59], 02 | Hailin From The Edge – feat. Raz Ohara [3:40], 03 | Useless Information [4:04], 04 | Limelight [4:12], 05 | Holdon – feat. Raz Ohara [4:10], 06 | Fractales Pt.1 [3:34], 07 | Fractales Pt.2 [2:06], 08 | Birds – vocals by Apparat [5:03], 09 | Arcadia – vocals by Apparat [5:10], 10 | You Don´T Know Me, 11 | Headup – feat. Raz Ohara [5:06], 12 | Over And Over – feat. Raz Ohara [5:07],13 | Like Porcelain [9:19]
Cendre, following their live 2005 EP, Sala Santa Cecilia, is an offspring which grow from collaboration between well-known names of ambient world Australian electronica artist Christian Fennesz [guitar/lapop] and the Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto [piano/laptop], formerly of Yellow Magic Orchestra.It's combination of hushed minimalism piano, shimmering guitar and thousands kinds of passionate electronics ... and you melt... You will losing the ground and floating a couple feets above like a feather in the wind. Once with melancholic smile on your face the second time it leaves you with heavy heart. But beautiful piece of ambient music for lonesome time.
Lon Gisland EP
Pompeii EP
