Hooks!
They’re strange things, commonly associated with Peter Pan and not generally looked upon with favor. However in the music world, they’re the holy grail of songwriting, performing the same piratical function of piercing your body and getting stuck deep inside your soul…
I’m writing this on a plane, flying back home from California. As my fifteen-year old son would put it, it’s a long-ass flight, close to eleven hours, and I’m only three hours into it. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I have plenty of time to write my upcoming post for Celebrate Life. And yeah, you guessed it right, this one is inspired by my trip, during which I drove about 2000 miles – a hell of a long way, at least by my standards…
It takes a remarkable sort of songwriter to combine a moral code passed down through the generations with a “fuck you” to a disgraced sibling and turn it into a foot-stomping, uptempo, country-folk barnstormer with a sly sense of humour that can get 1,000 Wurzels fans singing along.
We’re back guys after two week break with more smooth, sexy music and this we’re throwing some sounds from Vato Gonzalez at you with his hit track “Push Riddim” designed specifically for the shuffle dance or anybody that likes to do their own thing when it comes to EDM music scene…
As I stared into the little compartment in the graveyard where my father’s ashes are stored along with my grandparents’ I heard this song’s opening chord, resonating loudly inside my head. This has always been a deeply emotional piece of music for me…
London alt-pop duo Jadu Heart mine the dark sides of love and passion on new single ‘Purity’. Despite this, the track starts fairly harmoniously, with smooth vocals gliding over warm, rich plucks of acoustic guitar. It all turns on a sixpence after a minute and a half though, with reverb-drenched guitars reminiscent of The xx gliding their way in over a glitchy beat…
“Think fast I’m in over my head / Lose track I don’t know what I said / Fall back like I’m hoping again.” For rising Montreal alternative singer/songwriter Reno McCarthy, the apprehension is pronounced on “Deep Dive,” an advance single from his 2019 debut album, Counterglow…
Si la luna de Stereolab invitaba a una fiesta de efervescencia y hedonismo freak la versión que Chromatics hace del clásico “Blue moon” es de una languidez impronunciable ,pero al mismo tiempo sumamente atractiva de transitar…
Continuamos con la lista mágica de canciones, la cual me sorprende y emociona el hecho de que muchos artistas estén relacionados entre sí, en colaboraciones y producciones, muchos han compartido escenarios y trabajado con los mismos productores, tal vez incluso han estado en los mismos estudios de grabación, y por esta simple razón la música no deja de impresionarme…
Coming in just shy of 8 1/2 minutes it works as that long track you can get lost in
Hypnotic groove that repeats easily so you can play it again and again without noticing
Multilayered and textured – dynamic interest without being overpowering
Underlying beat track that creates and gives energy while remaining structured and disciplined
There’s a lot of Loss on this playlist – I’d say nearly two thirds of the tracks reflect the loss of something in one way or another, and while we’re familiar with the physical loss of a family member, close friend or lover, it’s the mental loss that has always intrigued me…
You know when you discover a new artist and immediately know you’re going to have a long lustrous love affair with their music? This happened to me recently with Matrick Jones aka Matthew Bilić. Once again my aussie roots grow deeper into my musical garden as this funky fellow hails from Sydney, Australia. Here in the warm shadows I would lovingly like to introduce Matrick Jones, a beam of golden musical light…