Mark Kozelek and Krisztina Dányi

We all know Mark Kozelek / Sun Kil Moon but not Krisztina Dányi / Morningdeer / Gloria. Isn't she amazing?

I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love, live at the House of Music Hungary on 2022 September 10.

Katy Song, covered by the White Flowers

singer: Katie Drew

we are accidents waiting to happen

"There There" ("The Boney King of Nowhere.") was written and composed at least since the year 2000 and finally released in 2003, 20 years ago. Thom Yorke resumed its lyrics as something "supposed to be comforting – 'It's alright, you're just imagining it'" and wrote it after watching Bagpuss (an animated children's television series) with his young son Noah. However, these lyrics can transport the listeners to other environments, of course.

In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape. Broken branches, Trip me as I speak.
Just 'cause you feel it, Doesn't mean it's there.

There's always a siren, Singing you to shipwreck (Don't reach out, don't reach out)
Steer away from these rocks, We'd be a walking disaster (Don't reach out, don't reach out)
Just 'cause you feel it, Doesn't mean it's there (Someone on your shoulder) There, there.
Why so green. And lonely, and lonely. And lonely.
Heaven sent you. To me, to me. To me.
We are accidents. Waiting, waiting. To happen.

Dedicated to Sarah.

hopelandic

Sigur Ros - Olsen Olsen, 1999
because it's February 22nd

Yoko Ono turned 90

"The world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does", John Lennon once said about Yoko Ono. Musically it is not easy to appreciate all Yoko's work. But undoubtedly she made very nice songs, and some of the most known are lullabies like "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" and more recently "Who Has Seen The Wind?" due to the cover made by David Byrne and Yo La Tengo included in the tribute album " Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono" released one year ago.

new body rhumba

Can't wait any more. I've been waiting for a nice live recording of this song to make this post. There's only this one.

Remembering Free

Formed in London in 1968 (55 years ago) the Free were an amazing blues-rock group, also considered hard-rock pioneers. The members were very young, teens, and they often had disputes which led them to break up definitively in 1973, 50 years ago. Paul Rodgers, the singer, had a great career, he formed the band Bad Company and he was invited to join Deep Purple and to collaborate with Queen amongst others.
Here's some of the Free songs. Enjoy.

Have a fantastic Valentine's Day

Jenny Hval - Spells (2018) in repeat

Serpents, the official video 11 years after

"Serpents" is Sharon Van Etten's song I like most. I went to the festival Nos Alive on the day 11 of July 2019 mostly to watch Sharon singing this song. It's a brilliant song about a very uncomfortable feeling of anger and Sharon herself didn't feel comfortable when she watched what should be the official video of this song. Only now the video is available by the re-release of the album Tramp, or its 11th (delayed 10th) Anniversary Edition.

the garden

I haven't tended to my garden for so long. Last time it was leafy. The bougainvillea turning red, screwing. And the enchanting perfume. And the parties at dusk. Seems like ages ago, in another incarnation. ... It makes me sorry now looking at it, to the abandoned garden hedges of twisted branches. The great spruce lies fallen. And a huge crater, replaces the beautiful flowerbeds of yesteryear.

"O jardim" por Mão Morta, álbum "Primavera de Destroços", 2001.
"The Garden", by the Dead Hand, album "Spring of Debris", 2001.

From Atomic in love with a German film star

From Atomic is a band from Coimbra, central Portugal, and two months ago they made this very nice cover of "I'm In Love With A German Film Star" the only hit of the British band The Passions. The original song released in January 1981, is kind of "Cold Wave" style, a mix of punk and electronic styles with mechanical rhythms pioneered in the 70's by the German band Kraftwerk. The From Atomic version is nicely rocky. It really moved me :)