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Experiment January 30, 2009

Ciao a tutti, oggi mi va di scrivere il BLOG in italiano. Non so perche’ mi va cosi’ ma in fondo essendone il creatore-padre-padrone, faccio un po’ quello che voglio. Inoltre, mi ringrazieranno tutti coloro che parlano poco o niente inglese e che cercano di seguire il BLOG per quanto possibile, magari ascoltando solo la canzone di turno. D’altrocanto i miei cari amici anglofoni o non-italici oggi non capiranno assolutamente (o quasi – mai sottovalutare le persone) cio’ che sto dicendo.

Oggi parliamo di Santogold.

Santi White, conosciuta con il suo nome d’arte, Santogold, è una cantautrice e produttrice discografica statunitense. Il suo nome d’arte è il soprannome che le diede un’amica ai tempi dell’università. E sembra che la sua amica avesse la vista lunga in quanto molte cose tra le quali quelle che questa donna ha toccato sono diventate preziose (musicalmente parlando…).

Come ho conosciuto quest’artista? Questo non lo ricordo, nel senso che non so quando ho ascoltato per la prima volta una sua canzone. Cio’ che sicuramente mi ricordo e’ che la sua musica piace molto a Valentina ed e’ anche per questo che oggi pubblico la canzone “L.E.S. Artistes”:

Buon fine settimana a tutti voi.

Domenico

Let it Be January 29, 2009

Ciao belli,

another day, another post, another opportunity for me to share something with you. Today we will share the wonderful female and warm voice of Sia.

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler, also simply known as Sia, has the same age as for my brother but she has a totally different life. She is an Australian pop singer. She is the one that in the great and gorgeous CD “Simple things” from Zero7 is the one singing at least two or three songs (among them, Distractions).

Besides this major collaboration, she also published three solo albums (I have two of them, for the ones interested in it!). This pop singer has such a soft, warm and intense voice that her re-interpretation of “Paranoid Android” in the tribute album “Exit Music: Songs with Radio Heads” is touching and maybe better than the original (from a certain point of view).

Talking about Sia, I just found that the song that closes the last season of the US serie “Six Feet Under” is one of her songs, “Breathe Me”. This is the song I´d like to share with you today:

Domenico

Bloody Monster January 28, 2009

Did I already tell you I love the Wednesday? If not, I do it right now. I think this day is the turning point of several things that happen during the normal week. The most important is the fact the working week is split in two parts by this day. Then I have seen that most of the things I want to achieve, strange but true, they happen on Wednesday. Besides that, I´m just both fully into the working phase of the week and, at the same time, already with my head in the weekend part.

OK, I think this is enough to say about this day. Let´s talk about about Sangue Mostro.

This Hip-Hop collective is born as a project from 5 Neapolitan rappers (SPEAKER CENZOU, EKSPO, ZIN, 2PHAST, O’KIATT). Coming from totally different realities, like soloists or part of other previously arranged groups, they bring their personal influences and styles into something not completely new but quite interesting.

I bought their debut album, “L´urdimu Tip!”, when I was in Napoli for Xmas (Oh God, how many visits paid to Feltrinelli and FNAC in less then 3 weeks!) and until now I had the chance to listen to it just once. I found on YouTube a few live performances but the one I share with you refers to the official video for the song “e´ ccos´nost´”:

as I heard several years ago on a night in a car during a radio interview to the Neapolitan band AMNK… “Nuje facimm´ hiphop… l´atri fann´ e´pippe!”

Domenico

The licentious ones January 27, 2009

Second day from this week. Today I feel careful. I feel like I want to do things for the persons I like. I feel like I want to take care of them, expecially one of them that I think I care more. These are the days when I consider the time as a precious coin and therefore it´s even more important to donate it carefully. While listening to another song from Pat Metheny, the guy I talked about in yesterday´s post, I compose today´s one.

Today I´m going to talk about The Rakes.

This rock band from London is around since 2004, more or less since I arrived in Vienna. They took their name from The Rake’s Progress, Rake means a dissolute or profligate person, esp. a man who is licentious. But it was only during 2005 that they became famous and have been associated with the British post-punk/art-rock scene, a genre shared by bands such as Bloc Party, Maxïmo Park, and The Futureheads. However, it could be argued that the Rakes originate from the east London/Whitechapel punk scene – along with The Others and The Libertines.

Today I want to share wiht you their most famous song (at least for me), that is “Strasbourg”:

Domenico

The guy with the singing guitar January 26, 2009

Hi there. Back to work after the weekend that took me into it to relax a little bit and be ready to be fully charged! Today I feel like I can do a lot of things and actually I have to do them. Some things I can´t say no and some I can. Some things I can postpone and some I´m already late for. In the end, normal business.

Today we talk about Pat Metheny.

I should thank my friend Antonio Ruggiero who actually introduced me to this American amazing guitar player from Kansas. This guy is amazing as he plays guitar in such a unique way that you could recognize him in a thousand of musicians. I´ve some memories linked to this guy. Memories from a wonderful concert in Napoli (where the acoustic was so bad, though) with Antonio and his at-that-time girlfriend. I have memories from a summer when I met a girl I fell in love with and part of the soundtrack of that time was one of the few CDs I have from this artist.

And it´s from this live CD that I select the track “First Circle”, here played live during an Italian TV show in 1998:

Domenico

Portugal-Angola-Kuduro January 23, 2009

And finally the end of the week arrived. It started like a non-so-busy one but it resulted in a much more “interesting” and full-of-things one. In the end, it was a good one and the next one will also be! The most important thing is the approach to things. They come the way you want they should come… Maybe I talked too much with my bro Fabio and his concept of “the Secret”…or maybe this is the way I see things during these days.

Today I talk about a new band whose CD was initially discovered in London by Dr. C. (who actually was so proud to have bought it before the band was highly reated on Rumore, one month later… sometimes little satisfactions help to make a day!). The band is Buraka Som Sistema.

This band comes from Portugal and they are more like a collective movement to me because they collaborates a lot with other artists, creating this sound named Kuduro (From Wikipedia: Kuduro (or Kuduru) is a type of music born in Angola and immediately exported to Lisbon suburbs in Portugal, hence its two varieties Luandense and Lisboeta. It is characterized as uptempo, energetic, and danceable. French DJ/Producer Fredric Galliano, who specializes in African music, describes Kuduro as “house music with programming inspired by traditional carnival music from the Caribbean and Angola”. He considers the music a social movement created by poor people, akin to hip-hop, and describes the lyrical content as societal and political critique).

The song that I want to share with you today is “Sound of Kuduro”:

Enjoy your weekend – Domenico

Evolutions! January 22, 2009

My dear musically curious people, I won’t say that today should be a quiet day because everytime I do so… something happens and the situation changes immediately. Let’s say nothing too serious is foreseen at the moment! Yesterday I went swimming and that didn’t happen since such a long time that I almost forgot the feeling of the cold water’s first impact…. BRRR! Anyhow, it was veeeery relaxing.

Today, we talk about the Blake/e/e/e.

This band. They come from the dusts of another band I already talked about so far, the Franklin Delano, from which I was in contact with the leader, Paolo Iocca, and we tried some times to organize a live show here in Vienna. Finally I went just a few minutes ago on their website and saw they made it happen! They will come playing live at Fluc on the 12th of March.

Talking about the new band, they got good feedback from the musical magazines, confirming the musical brave choice of leaving Italy to go abroad and look for more opportunities to release their music in a more mature scene. They play something folk and “countrish” and less rock than the sound played by the previous band (I just listened to the music on Youtube, having not yet got the CD).

And the song I’d like to share with you is “The Thing’s Hollow”:

Domenico