My Favorite Things

I start my humble contribution to the soud track of our lives with a music that has been on my top 10 list for quite some years and probably will stay there unless I suffer some kind of massive brain injury.

Hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_n-gRS_wdI

Temple Of The Dog

Temple Of The Dog - "Temple was a labor of love, a tribute to a dead friend, an outgrowth of the mourning process."

Definitely one of the cd's that is in my top 10. In Temple you can find a deeply farewell of a dear friend (Andrew Wood) and everything what that holds in sentimental terms, mixed, for besides, with the strength of two bands making music together- Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. And the result it´s just a 55min. piece of heaven.

A very beautiful piece of art.

Zita Swoon - A Song About A Girls

Zita Swoon is a Belgian indie rock group. They entered the music scene of Antwerp in 1993, still under the name "A Beatband" with the EP "Jintro Travels The Word In A Skirt". The group is typical of the music scene in Antwerp, with members playing in numerous other groups. Best known member is singer Stef Kamil Carlens, who founded the group and also played in "dEUS".

Stef Kamil Carlens - vocals, guitar, piano
Aarich Jespers - drums, percussion
Amel Serra - percussion
Joris Caluwaerts - piano, rhodes
Bart Van Lierde - bass
Eva Gysel - backing vocals
Kapinga Gysel - backing vocals

The Apples - Buzzin' About

The Apples are a band with their feet on Haifa, Israel. This is their second album, Buzzin' About.
Enjoy the "scrachy" funk, and remember life isn't only a double pedal, sometimes it has to be a double bass!


http://www.4shared.com/get/66216876/9b70be5/Buzzin_About.html

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power

Continuing the metal mayhem, here i drop another pearl of my metal life, a podium worthy... Dimebag R.I.P.

Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

Since we're talking about the soundtrack of our lifes (and before Dominguez jumps the gun on this one) here's my favourite metal album/definition of what a metal album should be like. Heavy as fuck, taking no prisioners.

Tom Waits - Blue Valentine

To listen to Tom Waits is enter in a strange place. There's no middle term, you either love him or hate him (specially after he went into the weird world of experimentation during the Island years). His low growl voice has been the origin of myths and strange legends that no one would like to see crushed, and his notion of how a musician/artist should deal with what he's producing and distributing predecesses the likes of Pearl Jam and Neil Young.





Me, I'm a massive fan of his work in the 70's, while he was signed to the Asylum records. In that moment in space and time, his songs defined for me what a blues singer should sound like: Some dude drunk on bad bourbon, singing about hookers and bitter lifes, in a shitty corner of some little joint smelling of cigarrettes and bad beer. That's what one could expect in this "Blue Valentine". It starts a bit slowly, but after the song "Romeo is bleeding", you're in for the ride. Or, you have though twice and switched to Nina Simone. One of them both...

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Beirut is the band of 22-year-old Santa Fe native Zach Condon.

It combines elements of Eastern European and folk sounds. Condon plays the trumpet and the ukulele as his main instruments, having been unable to play guitar because of a wrist injury that prevented his hand from reaching fully around the neck of a guitar.^[1]

Live, Beirut's shifting roster generally consists of Condon accompanied by Perrin Cloutier (cello/accordion), Jason Poranski (guitar/mandolin/ukulele), Nick Petree (drums), Kristin Ferebee (violin), Paul Collins (organ/keys/tambourine/ukulele), Jon Natchez (baritone sax/mandolin/glockenspiel), and Kelly Pratt (trumpet/euphonium).

Abril - Cristina Branco

Zeca revisitado numa linguagem mais jazz que intervencionista. E que nos faz perceber o compositor que Zeca Afonso realmente era (com nova roupagem ou não, a harmonia e melodia da música continua a mesma).

Demians - Building an Empire

French prog rock band. Saw them live last tuesday, in an amazing gig, and they just blew me right of my feet. So, it's prog. Along the likes of Porcupine tree, Riverside or the first album of Amplifier. Kind of. Anyway, the album is excellent.