Tom Verlaine

Tom Verlaine left us yesterday. He was 73.
Lately (and coincidentally or not it's happening a lot after this decreasing of the pandemic of Covid 19) many of our beloved musicians are dying. This blog is not an obituary but it looks like that, lately. And there were not even mentioned David Crosby, Jeff Beck and others...
Tom Verlaine was the heart and the soul and the frontman of his band Television. Television is one of the "punkosaurus" species, they started to be known due to their concerts in the legendary New York City music club CBGB since 1974. Once this blog is mostly devoted to barely known recordings, the only song posted here was an amazing cover of "Knocking on Heavens Door". Now is time to pay homage to this fantastic artist, Tom Verlaine. We're gonna miss him terribly. 

Roger Eno, Between Tides 35 years after

Kings of Maybe is copied to António Sérgio homage page on Facebook and the last post about Roger Eno had very nice feedback. And that's why I'm writing a little more about Roger Eno. Right after the first years of his career he had a great push from his brother Brian Eno who created the Opal Records and the Opal Evenings. In the words of Brian Eno, Opal represented the kind of artists producing "a string of eclectic, interesting, often lovely and nearly always not-very-profitable records". Opal Evenings were concerts performed by those artists including Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Harold Budd and Michael Brook. One of the records released by Opal, was "Between Tides", on 1st of January 1988, 35 years ago.
António Sérgio loved it and he often played the track "Field Of Gold". And sometimes "While The City Sleeps" followed by "Sunburst", the tracks 10 and 11.



Anyway, I love the whole album and "One Gull" is especially beautiful.


Back to this blog's last post and Roger Eno's last works, the new trio of EP's "Rarities" and his last album "The Turning Year", here's this precious "Clearly". Again his daughter Cecily Eno, this time dancing beautifully instead of singing.

Have a great Friday and have a beautiful weekend :)

Bells and The Turning Year

Roger Eno is not the kind of artist that most radio stations share. Quite the contrary, his music is played in only very few radio shows. In Portugal, I can remember that only António Sérgio played Roger Eno's records and then, I can only remember Ricardo Mariano during his monthly radio shows "Vidro Azul / Blue Glass" that we can listen to in these podcasts anytime. Some weeks ago, Ricardo played some of Roger's last works as shown in this blog, released by the legendary Deutsche Grammophon only months ago. The musical pieces are "Bells (with Voices)" sung by Roger's daughters Cecily Eno and Lotti Eno, "Bells" and "The Turning Year". These are pearls, enjoy with care.

Song on the Beach and Photograph

Only released to the public 10 months ago, these beautiful but very sad pieces were composed by William Butler (from Arcade Fire) and Owen Pallett for the 2013 science-fiction romantic drama film Her.

25 years of Moon Safari

Air is a French duo well known in this blog and that's why we're celebrating the 25th Anniversary of their 1st album, Moon Safari, released on 16 January 1998. Despite their work for many famous movies, they are still not well known worldwide. They remain a cult band.
Moon Safari was pretty ahead of its time and sounded new even a few years later. It starts as follows, with "La Femme d'Argent", "Sexy Boy", "All I Need", "Kelly Watch the Stars". Enjoy :)

Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood in Tiny Desk

I guess this is the first time that Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood visit Tiny Desk. And only because of that I'm making this post. Amazing, anyway! What else could we expect from them? I've chosen "Skrting On the Surface" but there's also "Pana-vision" and "The Smoke" in this video. 

Happy New Year

The very danceable "Panic In Babylon" by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, 2012.