I See A Darkness

 

About every ten years, musicians get the idea to cover I See A Darkness. A few days ago, Anna Calvi also ventured to cover the dark ballad written by Will Oldham in 1999, which for me is one of the best songs he has ever written. Rarely has a song about friendship moved me as much as this one. While Calvi's urgent guitar playing and vocals create an ominous atmosphere, it is Perfume Genius who breaks through the dark sky with his falsetto.

A good song can't really be ruined. That's why we're featuring the original by Mr. Oldham and a version that Martin Gretschmann, aka Acid Pauli, brought to clubs quite some time ago.

Die 4 You

Hope everyone of you had a fantastic start into the new year that hopefully will be better than the last one in any way of politics, equality and fairness.

During the last weeks I didn't listen much to music as I used to do. But some day I remembered a song that fascinated me last year with it's gloomy atmosphere. Die 4 You is a song by Mike Hadreas aka Perfume Genius. He's a Seattle based musician and released his latest album about 6 months ago. Seldom heard an intensive song like this. There is long time only of Hadreas' voice which begs and sues and swears, while something which could have been once a piano or maybe also a guitar torments itself in the background still more than the voice. Then the sound space with furry tones and a bedroom beat fills, Hadreas sings „take your time“, however, hope refuses to die.