Pick Word #39 - Ordinary

1. Duran Duran - Ordinary World
2. Patrick Watson - Just Another Ordinary Day
3. Here We Go Magic - Ordinary Feeling
4. Sade - No Ordinary Love
5. Eels - Ordinary Man

Songs Collection February - 2014

It's Superball night tonight, but for some of you that might not watch that important sport event, there are seven wonderful songs to hear down below. starting with tripy new song by Thievery Corporation; A beautiful collaboration of The Bird And The Bee and Matt Berninger from The National for an upcoming film called Endless Love; New songs by EELS, Timber Timbre, Soak and Lane 8 and one haunting cover to Nick Drake's song "Things behind the sun" by Darkside and Tamara.

1. Thievery Corporation Feat. Shana Halligan - Depth Of My Soul

2. The Bird And The Bee Feat. Matt Berninger - All Our Endless Love

3. Timber Timbre - Hot Dreams

4. EELS - Agatha Chang

5. Darkside Feat. Tamara - Things Behind The Sun (Nick Drake cover version)

6. Soak - Blud

7. Lane 8 Feat. Lucy Stone - Nothing To Say

2013: Top 60 So Far (Part #1): Places 51-60

What a great musical year it is so far. Many beautiful and innovative albums have been released so far, making me spending extra time to listen most of them. So I've decided to summarise what I've heard until these days, counting down from 60 to the first places, so let's start right now:

Number 60: Phoenix - Bankrupt!

Who Are They? Four piece Alternative Rock band from France (5th Record)
Why? Because it seems and sounds like a bankrupt...

Listen: Entertainment

Number 59: The Strokes - Comedown Machine

Who Are They? Five Piece Alternative Rock Band From New York (5th record)
Why? Because they sound so tired of playing, like an old band refusing to retire.

Listen: All The Time

Number 58: Deerhunter - Monomania

Who Are They? Five Piece Indie Rock band from Atlanta (6th record)
Why? Because there is so much hype around them so I couldn't ignore

Listen: T.H.M

Number 57: Olof Arnalds - Sudden Elevation

Who Is She? An Icelandic Folk singer, who released her debut album in English (3rd record)
Why? Because of the sweet voice and the simple composition of pure beauty

Listen: Bright And Still

Number 56: Anais Mitchell And Jefferson Hamer - Child Ballads

 

Who Are They? A collaboration of two highly acclaimed American Folk singers (Debut album)

Why? Because of the concept album about lost child ballads

 

Listen: Tam Lin 

 

Number 55: Phosphorescent - Muchacho

 

Who Is He? An Indie-Folk American singer called Matthew Houck from Athens (7th album)

Why? Because of one of the most beautiful songs this year....

 

Listen: Song For Zula (Amazing....)

 

Number 54: Adam Green And Binki Shapiro - Adam Green And Binki Shapiro

 

Who Are They? A collaboration of two young Anti-Folk singers from New York (Debut album)

Why? Because the catchy melodies and 60's scent

 

Listen: Here I Am

 

Number 53: Sally Shapiro - Somewhere Else

 

Who Is She? A Swedish vocalist, who performs Italo-Disco and Synthpop (3rd album)

Why? Because Swedish doing Italo-Disco better...

 

Listen: Architectured Love

 

Number 52:Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods

 

Who Is He? An English multi-instrumentalist, who performs Barok and Chamber Pop (8th album)

Why? Because of the special effort of recording this album in six hours, alone!

 

Listen: The Man That Time Forgot

 

Number 51: Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

 

Who Are They? It's mainly Mark Oliver Everett, a multi-instrumentalist from California (10th album)

Why? Because he's still one of the best song writers ever...

 

Listen: Peach Blossom



Best Albums Of February 2013

February has passed, so it's time to select the best 10 albums I've heard this month. The best album this month was Push The Sky Away by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds but there were also few more great releases this month. Eels released their tenth studio album which is more Rocky than the earlier Tomorrow Morning and End Times. Atoms For Peace, the side project of Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Thom Yorke (Radiohead) and Nigel Goodrich, is very fascinating that I don't think I've got it all already. Nataly Dawn got a fresh sound, which made her small album listenable most of the day. Adam Green And Binki Shapiro are not far from the sound of She & Him, and made a great release together. Night Beds made an exciting debut album based on his beautiful vocal, as well as Ed Harcourt who recorded his album in 6 hours! Mark Kozelek seems to continue doing the same stuff for the last ten years as Sun Kil Moon and Johnny Marr has a new album which finally gives him the front place. The only album which I didn't understand why it was so highly acclaimed is MBV by My Bloody Valentine. I know many people waited over 20 years for this release but it sounds like Loveless without the ground-breaking music they made 20 years agu. I think I'll give it another try....

10. My Bloody Valentine - MBV

9. Johnny Marr - The Messenger

8. Mark Kozelek - Like Rats

 

7. Ed Harcourt - Back Into The Woods

 

6. Night Beds - Country Sleep

 

5. Adam Green And Binki Shapiro - Adam Green And Binki Shapiro

 

4. Nataly Dawn - How I Knew Her

 

3. Atoms For Peace - Amok

 

2. Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

 

1. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

February Playlist 2013 Week #5

We're close to this first weekend of February and it's time to explore some new tracks which were released this week. You can Find here big names such as My Bloody Valentine (!!!) and Eels along with Adam Green And Binki Shapiro, Widowspeak and Night Beds. Hopiny you'd like it either.

My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow (Taken From MBV, 2013)

 

Widowspeak - Thick As Thieves (Taken From Almanac, 2013)

 

Adam Green & Binki Shapiro - Just To Make Me Feel Good (Taken From Adam Green & Binki Shapiro, 2013)

 

Night Beds - Ramona (Taken From Country Sleep, 2013)

 

Eels - Peach Blossom (Taken From Wonderful, Glorious, 2013)

Eels

Eels is a long time, one man project led by Mark Oliver Everett, who is known as E. Their new album Wonderful, Glorious was recorded with The Chet (Guitar), Knuckles (Drums), Koool G Murder (Bass) and P Boo (Additional guitar) and it is their 10th release since the mid-90's. Eels producing a melodious Indie music, with intelligent lyrics, which changes upon the album issue. As you already know. I won't bother you with too much words, so let's hear five songs, two of them from the new album, which was released today and got more Rock N' Roll sound....

Peach Blossom (Taken From Wonderful, Glorious, 2013)

A Line In The Dirt (Taken From End Times, 2010)

I'm Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn't Break Your Heart (Taken From Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, 2005)

This Is Where It Gets Good (Taken From Tomorrow Morning, 2010)

New Alphabet (Taken Wonderful, Glorious, 2013)

Well Kept Secret: 25 Years To David Sylvian's "Secrets of the Beehive"

If there was a prize given to the most tormented singer, it seems that David Sylvian, formerly the leading singer of Japan, would be one of the strong candidates (EELS and Mark Kozelek). 25 years ago, on 7th of November, 1987, he released his highly acclaimed fourth album called Secrets of The Beehive. Mostly acoustic and down-tempo, Sylvian draws beautiful songs coloured by his wonderful voice, taking the listener into a magical world of Mythological characters and beautiful landscape. I've chosen five songs of that album, but my favourite, Orpheus, became one of his greatest hits so you must hear it at least....

1) September 

In 5 words: Feeling the cold wind blowing through
Favourite line: We say that we're in love while secretly wishing for rain

 

2) Orpheus

In 5 words: Great mythological metaphors of Orpheus
Favourite line: But we feel secure against such mighty dreams, as Orpheus sings of the promise tomorrow may bring

 

3) The Boy With The Gun


In 5 words: Staring at the barrel of a gun
Favourite line: A grudge held from his childhood days, as if life had loved him less

 

4) Promise (The Cult Of Eurydice)


In 5 words: Silent ballad to fall asleep with
Favourite line: And when the lightning starts the secrets in her heart merge within the rain patterns

5) When Poets dreamed of angels


In 5 words: An unsolved question about poets' dreams
Favourite line: When the poets dreamed of angels what did they see?