Sunday, 28 September 2025

Halah


Hope Sandoval, Mazzy Star, 1990

Deep Sea Diver - Let Me Go


These artists are virtually unknown in Europe. And when I first heard this excellent song, I thought the style sounded very similar to Sharon Van Etten... Maybe it is just this song... Curiously, Jessica Dobson and her band Deep Sea Diver started their career by 2007, as Sharon.  Madison Cunningham is younger, but as been on the road for 10 years already.

Friday, 19 September 2025

New from Spoon



Spoon - "Guess I'm Fallin In Love"

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

safe inside, again



As songs that go forgotten ; are found, remembered, loved and sung again ; the father of all kindness ; the lover of all souls, will come to find us. And if I can remain there ; and if I can remain there, I will stay. And I will live another day... A smallness there's no shame in ; a gift that's bigger than the Black Sea heaving. And if I can remain there ; In that heaven of her eyes ; I'll find a tiny paradise and no goodbyes. And if I can remain there ; and if I can remain there, I will stay. And I will live another day. Safe. Safe inside. Where angels soft as kisses ride on gentle horses. Safe inside the day, inside the song. Safe inside. If laughing big and silent pride, on gentle horses. Safe inside the day, inside the song. Safe inside ...



Monday, 15 September 2025

the cult of Wire


Wire, a cult band, always promoted by António Sérgio.
Here, "Playing Harp for the Fishes," from the 2017 album Silver/Lead, performed live that same year at KEXP Studios in Seattle.


And, from Wire's first album, from 1977, an excerpt of the song that gives the album its name, Pink Flag.


Thursday, 11 September 2025

Utopia, 25 years


Alison Goldfrapp, album Felt Mountain, 2000 Sept 11.

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

I love my man when he's good or mean.



Bent - I Love My Man (Lazyboy Anyone For Tennis Remix) 2001

Friday, 5 September 2025

Eternamente


Pablo Milanés (1943-2022) was a Cuban composer and singer, well known mostly in Latin countries. He was married six times. For his second wife, Yolanda Benet (of French ancestry) he composed the famous love song "Yolanda" when Lynn, the first of their three daughters, was born in 1970. Their marriage only lasted five years. However, a profound friendship between them was shown publicly mostly during Pablo's last years of life, when he was fighting against his terminal disease. 
Lynn, as some of Pablo's nine children, became a singer.
Here's "Yolanda" performed by Pablo and his companion Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. Silvio and Pablo were leaders of the Cuban musical movement Nueva Trova, started in 1967 and fading by the late 70's. 



Tuesday, 2 September 2025

spectre


This is how could be the opening of the 24th 007 James Bond film "Spectre" with this song from Radiohead, 10 years ago.