It’s been a while since I last posted something here. Nearly two years… Well actually, I am quite occupied right now, and while having time to listen to good music, I haven’t shared with you those listenings.
Today, I’m gonna talk about Santigold, who is an artist that i like very much. I was listening a lot to her when her first album Santogold (her former artist name) came out. But I had lost what she was doing after that.
Recently i fell on a youtube video of her performance at tiny desktop concert, which was really nice. I like a lot the concept of those concerts, a tiny band performing softly with a not so big audience. It’s often warm and the artists seem to feel great.
You say that you’re stuck in a pale blue dream
And your tears feel hot on my bedsheets
Drape your arms around me and softly say
Can we dance upon the tables again?
You’re the train that crashed my heart
You’re the glitter in the dark
Ooh Laura, you’re more than a superstar
You’ll be famous for longer than them
Your name is tattooed on every boy’s skin
Ooh Laura, you’re more than a superstar
How do you feel this morning? Knowing that some people here are reading this post from the other side of the Atlantic, the question could be : how do you feel? Simply. But nevertheless it’s Sunday here in France. I’m sitting on my sofa with my daughter watching Barbie on the beach movie, thinking what we’re gonna do today.
And, I thought about the Bangles. This old girl band from the eighties is one of my favourite girl band (if you exclude hole). Yes, it’s really dated. Yes, it really sounds from the eighties. But yes, it is still some great songs. My favourite must be “walk like an Egyptian”. But today I share with you manic Monday.
I do love this song, don’t ask why, I really don’t know. Maybe it’s just the voice of the singer, maybe it’s the melody, maybe… I don’t know.
Hope you will enjoy starting your Sunday listening to the Bangles before having a manic Monday 😊
Just a small video tonight. It must be a while it has been leaked ( around 3 months according to YouTube), but I’ve just sawn it. Dave Grohl playing Play alone on drums. Wish I was as good as this guy, one of my favourite drummers with the amazing John Bonham. It lasts 23minutes but can easily be seen in some parts.
it’s been a long time since I’ve posted in Godzika. Tonight, I can not sleep, so as always in these kind of moments I’m listening to music. Yesterday I fall back on this great band The Cure . I’ve always been a huge fan of them, since I was a teenager, a long time ago nevertheless. Well, I was asking myself what to listen to and it seems obvious that I should listen to Robert Smith. One of the band album I’ve most listened is Disintegration . So I put my headphones on, put the volume higher to hide all the noisy sounds around me, and let the journey begin. What an album, what songs, what voice …
Hope you will enjoy as much as I do!
So just pull on your hair
Just pull on your pout
And let's move to the beat
Like we know that it's over
And happy christmas to all of you that come to read this blog. This include my father and cousins 😉
So today i wanted to continue to play with some polls action available here at wordpress. There was a question i asked myself a few days ago. What kind of music are you listening when its christmas time? Are you feelin a old soul and like to ear some old song? Are you feelin like a kid and enjoy listening to old good disney song? or on the contrary, do you wanna kill every body who are anjoying christmas songs?
Ce soir, c’est la fête de la musique! Vous savez c’est le soir où on peut entendre de mauvais ou moins mauvais groupes reprendre vos titres préférés. Des fois même, les plus aventuriers reprendront leurs propres morceaux. Mais pour autant ce n’est pas sur que vous les reconnaissiez… Bref, pour la fête de la musique c’est vraiment la fête. Mais je suis négatif, moi même je l’ai faite cette fête de la musique, et c’est le pied en tant que musicien! On se retrouve à jouer un peu n’importe où. devant un bar comme devant un tabac, voir même devant un kebab. Mais dans le dernier cas, vous aurez à apporter vos propres bières, parce que sinon vous risquez de tourner au sprite toute la nuit 🙂 Dans tous les cas, c’est une communion avec les gens. C’est le bordel. Y’en a partout. Si on n’a pas de sono, c’est à celui dont le batteur tapera le plus, et à ceux dont les amplis sont les plus puissants.
“Yes, we can” c’était le slogan de campagne de Barack Obama avant sa victoire à la présidentielle. Ca c’était avant. Dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, on se contente de la médiocrité d’un Trump qui décide que le réchauffement climatique, on s’en fout… Aujourd’hui, il y a une très bonne nouvelle cependant. L’une de nos plus grandes fiertés nationales, la chanteuse Camille sort un nouvel opus “Ouï“. Ce disque aurait pu s’appeler “Non” tant Camille avait besoin de se révolter contre un monde qu’elle ne comprend plus. Elle n’est pas la seule!
“Yes, we can”, that was the headline of Barack Obama’s campain to be president. That was before. Now, Trump is on the white house with all his mediocrity, and simply decide that that climate change is not important… But today, there is such a good news nevertheless. One of our national celebrity, the singer “Camille” is back with a new album. That disk could have been called “No” as Camille needed to revolt agaisnt this world she does not understand anymore. She’s not alone!
Ce disque est salué par une grande partie de la presse musicale. Comme toujours dans ce cas là, j’étais sceptique (comme une fosse diront certains!). Mais je viens de l’écouter. Et là alors là… j’ai été étonné. J’ai beaucoup aimé et écouté l’album le fil. Je le trouvais vraiment original et tout simplement très bon. Depuis, j’ai écouté d’une oreille distraite les autres albums de Camille. Non pas qu’ils ne furent pas bons. Non. Mais je les trouvais un peu surfait, un peu surjoué. Le personnage créé par l’artiste est intéressant, mais je trouvais que dans l’écriture et sur les concepts, c’était too much par moment. Mais ça n’engage que moi évidemment.
So, this album has critcally acclaimed by the medias. As always in thos cases, i am sceptical. But i’ve just listened to it, it’s really good and original. So far, i’ve been half listening the lasts LPs from Camille. Not that they were not good, but i found them a little too much. The character conceived by the singer was a little bit too much for me. But it’s my own opinion.
Sur “Ouï“, Camille revient à l’essentiel. Le chant et de belles mélodies. C’est assez aérien, mais aussi tellurique par moment. Il y a une atmosphère particulière, peut-être lié au lieu d’enregistrement de l’album (elle a été en résidence dans un monastère pour composer et écrire l’album!). Ceci étant Oui est un grand disque. Comme il n’y en a pas légion dans notre beau pays, ça vaut le coup d’en faire une critique, non? Les chansons alternent français et anglais pour ne pas avoir à choisir entre ces 2 langues. de toute façon les textes qu’ils soient ou non dans votre langue s’écoutent aussi par la diction et le “flow” particulier de Camille.
On “Ouï“, Camille is back to basics. Singing and wrinting good melodies. The whole songs are a litlle atmospheric as well as telluric sometimes. It’s certainly in relation with the place the LP was created (Camille was in a monastery during all the conception of the songs!). So Ouï is a major Album. There is not so much great new Lps that come out in our Country, it’s worth to talk about it, isn’t it? The songs are half fench, half english. Anyway, no matter what the language,the songs can be listened only to feel them.
Pour finir, j’ai vu que Camille était en tournée. Je vous mets les dates en lien. A mon avis ça vaut le coup live!
As a conclusion, Camille is on tour right now. The links are available on her website below. I’m sure its a good show live.
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