Noctuary

This song fits to a lazy, sunny Sunday morning. Simon Green aka Bonobo is one of these artists that combines different kind of genres as a DJ and producer. He self names his music some kind of downtempo. And I can agree. Slow songs with eruptive jazzy breakouts.

Bonobo - Noctuary

Shiverman

A few days ago I got the news that Fat Freddy's Drop will appear for a show in my town. FFD is a band from Wellington, New Zealand. I describe their music as a great mixture of Dub, Roots-Reggae, Soul and Jazz. The are not big in Europe but they must be big in New Zealand. I know them from a record I bought second hand on a flea market. Watching the videos I think this concert could be a good evening.

This is a song from their newest record.

Ocean Of Night

A few days ago I found a new song by the Editors, another British band in the tradition of New Wave and post-punk. Listening to the voice of Tom Smith they can't annoy their roots to Joy Division. It's a pretty little song dominated by a sad piano and straight drums made for the times later at the when you please yourself with a drink.

"Love is a feeling, buried with me in the yard, gaze at the skyline, under the ocean of stars."

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis

A few days ago I went with a close girlfriend to a concert, watching Kitty, Daisy & Lewis. It was located in a club where normally bands from the heavy metal scene use to play. The venue wasn't filled but the audience was between the mid twenties and the late fifties. I didn't expect much more than an entertaining evening with some good music. But what we've got was an evening by young artists playing old school music with a verve of nowadays. Seeing them brothers and sisters changing all between guitars, drums and piano was that kind of awesome and unforgotten that will last for ages. Of course, you may call it old-school, but for me it was one of the evenings were everything fit together.

Twanging Tuesday # 85

Since long years it's still the same thing in November - The Meteors are coming to town. One of the oldest Rockabilly bands around. They still play their weird sound at small and hot venues and I saw them a few times during the last years. Not really sure if I will join them next week. So let's listen to their version of John leyton's Johnny Remember Me.

Wings

Every few years London spits out some female rappers. The latest one is Little Simz a 21 years old musician, artist and singer. She released her first full length record a few week ago on her own label AGE: 101 music. On this song (produced by the Berlin located DJ IAmNobodi) she sings without point and comma over a jazzy intro about herself. Like Azaelia Banks she's able to switch between rapping and singing in one song. Nice stuff.

Downtown

A few days ago some newspaper recommended the latest video by Devon Welch aka Majical Cloudz a Canadian artist who released his second record these days. I watched this video and I was fascinated. Not by the music that sounds too much like Coldplay for me ears and the embedded weepy voice. One could come along funnily about Welsh, the Canadian with the close-cropped head, the striking eyebrows and the piercing, intensive look with which he pulls his audience mostly from the stage in his spell. This look, this easily manic and obsessive also spreads to the listener. What this song makes great for a Sunday morning is the spherical ambient beat by a drum-computer in contrast to Welch's voice. Nothing you say will ever be wrong / Cause it just feels good being in your arms

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