3 posts tagged “lounge”
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10/10/08 Principal Club Theatre Thessaloniki
Album Discography
10/11/08 Theatro Vrahon Athens 10/15/08 Sala Palatului Bucharest 10/16/08 Shepherd’s Bush Empire London, London and South East 10/19/08 Lisbon Coliseum Lisbon, Lisboa 10/24/08 House of Blues Houston Houston, Texas 10/25/08 Voodoo Music Festival New Orleans, Louisiana 10/26/08 House of Blues Dallas Dallas, Texas
The lyrics are lovely, aren't they? According to the liner notes, Ooldouz Ghelichkhani is credit as taking part in the song-writing of this song. She is also listed as co-writer for "Sweet Tides", another lovely song that ends the album. The reoccurring theme of Radio Retaliation is about rebellion, and it's evident in their reggae-inspired songs (but with that certain dub and beats of Thievery Corp): "Sound The Alarm", "Radio Retaliation", "Vampires", "Hare Krishna" (to some extent since it's more dancey on this song), and "Blasting Through The City". Perhaps is the inherit rebellious nature of reggae music from its Rastafari movement (Rasta) - a religious movement to accept Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie I as incarnations of Jah (God). What Thievery Corporation is doing is very exciting and I'm happy to say that the album is out today, September 23rd on ESL Record. |
Links:
thieverycorporation.com
myspace.com/thieverycorporation
eslmusic.com
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07/13/08 Eboli (Salerno/Naples), Italy
Discography
07/18/08 Arezzo Wave - Livorno, Italy 08/09/08 Carpi/Modena, Italy 08/29/08 Burning Man - Black Rock City, Nevada
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Costanza Francavilla, or simply known as Costanza is an Italian singer, has a full length album out on July 8th called Sonic Diary. After putting the album in to listen, I instantly think of electronica and trip hop, but with a dreampop quality, as her singing style is often breathy, sexy, and deamlike.
Looking at the very impressive/see-through press material, it looks like her music's been licensed out to a variety of television shows (CSI, L Word) and movies (.45, starring everyone's favorite Milla Jovovich). It doesn't surprise me, as this type of electronica music (think Moby) works well as background music.
However, I think the one thing people might know her from is her collaboration with British electronic artist, Tricky (and, sure, you might know him from another Jovovich film, The Fifth Element).
Apparently, Costanza who was a fan at one of his show gave Tricky's drummer a three-track demo CD and that was passed onto Tricky, who absolutely loved it. So all the songs on his Vulnerable album in 2003 featured Costanza's vocals with two songs co-written by her ("Stay" and "What is Wrong").
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One of the most bizarre and interesting song from their collaboration is their cover of XTC's "Dear God". I wouldn't go so far as to pronounce their version equal or better than the original grand epic song in three and a half minutes, but I will have to admit that it's "different". I think if I didn't know about XTC, I would really love Tricky and Costanza's version. (Side note: their cover of The Cure's "Love Cats" is better).
Now, if you thought "Dear God" was weird, the very original electronica take on Fugazi's "Promises" and Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down" must be heard to be believed. The way she sings "promises are shit", with her Italian accent, it doesn't sound bad or naughty at all.
Other songs I thought were interesting is the opening song, "Just Another Alien". Not so much a song, but a series of questions that she was probably asked when she was applying to live and work in the USA. The Italian song, "I Tuoi Occhi Sono Pieni Di Sale" (featuring Riccardo Sinigallia) was also interesting, it made me want to learn Italian. I did use babelfish and it tells me that the title translate to something like "Your Eyes Are Full Of [knowledge?]", so I'm assuming it's a personal/love song?
The one song that I think everyone will really enjoy is "Silence". This is such a dreamtronica song, full of child-like and innocent singing on a very lush music background. I feel like the song belongs to a soundtrack to a movie.
Fans of electronica lounge music, made famous by such compilations such as OM: Chilled and Lounge Experience series, should really enjoy this. These songs are perfect for either laying around the house or at a small party, really good for any occasion.
It looks like she'll be playing a few dates in Italy with Marco Messina. If you aren't lucky enough to live in Italy, her album Sonic Diary is out this Tuesday. For convience, you can actually get high quality MP3 from Amazon right now.
PS, Usually we just have one or two releases on Tuesday that I need to do coverage on. So I normally check on Sunday and work on the review that very day or, at the latest, on that Tuesday. I thought I was sitting pretty as I've already taken care of two releases already that was meant for July 7th (Connected) and 8th (Matt Keating), but we still have these that's being release this week: Wire's Object 47, The Coke Dares' Feelin' Up, Son Ambulance's Someone Else's Deja Vu, Patti Smith/Kevin Shield's The Coral Sea, and Costanza's Sonic Diary. If I have missed anything, please accept my apologies and contact me right away.
Lodi's very own horror-movie-loving, skull-collecting, fan-pummeling, Jerry-Only-hating, muscle-bound poet turned 52 yesterday.
I wanted to post half a dozen pictures of a shirtless Danzig pretending not to flex, pointing, or just looking mean, but then I'd have to pass out the smelling salts, wouldn't I? So, all you get is a bunch of covers and live performances.
The Nutley Brass, who've also covered the Ramones, perform cheerful, lounge versions of 11 Misfits classics. "Die, Die My Darling", "Last Caress", and "Angelfuck" are standouts, though the entire cd is pretty good. "Hatebreeders" is the only song with (oohing) vocals and the least recognizable.
Portland's The Misfats keep the tunes and amusingly mangle the lyrics into the Anti-Danzig: Reveling in all things Fat. Some of their parodies include "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Grill Tonight?", "Hungry Moments", and "Butter". You get it.
Even though I can't make out at least a third of the lyrics, there's enough there to make me giggle. (Glenn Hamzinger declaring "You Don't Go in the Bathroom.. After Me" in "Private Bidness" almost made me choke on my allergy snot.)
If you'd like to hear more, there's a download link on their MySpace blog. I'm not too sure if it still works, though. I do know of another source. Just mail me.
Aerial M is David Pajo of Pajo, Zwan, Tortoise, etc. From the little that I've heard, his own music is not too different from his accoustic version of "Last Caress", which is almost soothing and pretty -- if you ignore the lyrics.
I kind of laughed at the violent bits. Oh man.
Sleater-Kinney and three fifths of Pearl Jam performed "Mother" live in 2005. Googling will easily lead to the mp3.
The Misfits and Henry Rollins at The Whiskey in 1982. Rollins tries to keep up with Danzig, but just ends up screaming a lot.
Tip: Don't rent a movie solely based on what was screamed in a Misfits song. This guy's the Roger Corman of music.
Snottily, Cristina
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