MUSIC: Current mood

MUSIC: Song of the Week

Banks - Warm Water (Snakehips Remix)

MUSIC: Pharell Williams - Happy (a 24 hour music video)

 This is for sure the best music video I've seen! So simple and yet to great. It's the first 24 hour music video on earth showing amateurs dancing through the whole video! I love it and it definitely makes you happy. So please watch it and I swear it'll for sure make you smile:)

http://24hoursofhappy.com/

Have a happy friday,

MUSIC: Springtime Carnivore

Dunno how I bumped on this but I guess it was some how through http://tomboystyle.blogspot.de/.

 Biografie
"Springtime Carnivore was born on the night of a full moon in the summer of the year of the dragon. She is the seventh of twelve siblings. Her father was a painter and her mother baked wedding cakes. Her favorite color is turquoise. Her favorite food is purple Pez. In a past life she slept beneath the stars in far away Western places and died in a gun fight with Annie Oakley.

Following high school, Springtime Carnivore joined a traveling circus company. She was a talented and nimble acrobat but her career was cut short by a tragic tightrope accident. “We had been traveling for days trying to maintain our schedule and we were all sick and tired and lonesome,” she recently wrote in a letter to her fans. “One night during a show in Twin Falls, Idaho, my energy was all used up and I made a misstep on the tightrope. Long story short, I fell three stories and broke my fibula.”

Although the tightrope incident killed Springtime’s big top dreams, it opened the door to another dormant aspiration. “While my poor leg was healing I discovered an old piano in the attic of my great great grandma’s second’s cousin’s third husband’s house. I dusted it off, paid a blind man to tune it by ear and I’ve been playing ever since. Inside me were all these songs about all these things I’ve seen and all these places I’ve been. Just came pouring out like tears."

The result of Springtime’s latent piano passions can be heard on this first release from the young songstress. Brought to you by LebensStrasse. Available all places cool discs are sold."


Springtime Carnivore :: Collectors from Eddie O'KEEFE on Vimeo.

Check out EP here: http://springtimecarnivore.bandcamp.com/

Enjoy listening;

MUSIC: Nina Simone

Just because we should bring her beauty and her music back to life.

Have a sunny Sunday.

MUSIC: The Numero Group

Looking for good music can be very difficult. Especially if you're a really choosy person who has already heard a various amount of music which just didn't really hit you. But if you dig into the former music collection from which our today's music is inspired of, I'm pretty sure you'll find something you will like. Always in search of new music you have never ever heard before is not as easy anymore as before, so why not just listen to what you are not looking for. Yes, I mean the music which nobody talks about anymore. The music development of the 20th century is what I'm talking about. This period is from where all our today's music comes from, so forget all the new genres which try to be unique and individual, these are just copies from already existing genres anyway. So if you're already becoming curious you've got to know the Chicago record label Numero Group. This Illinois record label mainly releases compilations of previously released albums which deserve to be recognized more. This is their mission:

"The mission was simple: to dig deep into the recesses of our record collections with the goal of finding the dustiest gems begging to be released from their exile on geek street. No longer would $500 singles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be played. No more would the artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who made these records happen go unknown and unappreciated."

These are just two of several songs of  Numero Group I could hear 24/7.

Have a lovely Saturday,

Oh how I love Sundays!

 Just by thinking of Sunday makes me feel relaxed. The past weeks have been full of too much work. For sure you know that feeling when you wake up on a Monday morning and the first you think of is how nice it would be if it was Sunday morning again and you could stay in bed the whole morning with a hot cup of tea. Well, that's how I was feeling like the past 3 weeks. I've got one week more full of work until it's my time, too to enjoy my holiday or let's better call it three less stressful weeks with not so much work. While roaming around my flat today having nothing to do than lying in bed with my laptop I found this wonderful song of the danish duo "Quadron". Check out more of their songs!

Besides of that I was cleaning my hard disk deleting a bunch of useless stuff on my laptop and found these very inspirating pictures of a Madewell collection I can't remember anymore. But I think the're really nice and I love the color combination and dicided to keep these pictures as a great outfit inspiration.

Have a relaxing Sunday!

"Vogue Boy"

Because I just love it!!!


"VOGUE BOY": ME AT NINE, PERFORMING TO MADONNA IN SUMMER '91! from Robert Jeffrey / Angelo de Vries on Vimeo.

Lily Cole for Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Amazing video clip with Lily Cole directed by Megaforce (Iconoclast).


Clip YeahYeahYeahs / Sacrilege / Directors: Megaforce (Iconoclast) / Dop: Alexis Zabe / Digital Colorist: Anne Szymkowiak. from ANNE SZYMKOWIAK on Vimeo.


Enjoy,

Tired of everything.

HAIM - forever

.... and ever and ever I could listen to this song.

Haim "Forever" from Austin Peters on Vimeo.

Listen to more:
https://soundcloud.com/haimtime 

On my wish list

Yes, of course every girl has a wish list. Some monthly, other weekly, spoiled ones daily! After having a great week so far, well besides my colds which I won't get rid of for days, I had an interview for the paramedic apprenticeship at the Red Cross which I was craving for and immediately got accepted. Oh it's such a great feeling knowing what's going on with your life in the next two years. No more head breaking nights, no more worries and no more confusion. And a step closer to med uni! 

I had an other interview today, too. But I want to keep it as a surprise, so I'll tell you  more next week if everything goes well.

After having such a great day, I've been thinking of what to treat myself with next time after accomplishing a next tiny life changing step.

Good mood kinds of keep me inspired....

duffle coat - asos // nail polish - YSL // purse - acne // mat lip stick (shade 201) - YSL // filler - Kaweco

An other good mood maker is the band HAIM - three cool sisters from LA.

Have a nice evening!

Don Jon's Addiction

As I mentioned in my last post, I attended the film premier of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's movie Don 
 Jon's Addiction starring Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt himself.
The actual release of the movie is the 10th October 2013 for that reason I was really excited to watch the movie so early and the most exciting thing about that evening was of course the presence of  Joseph Gordon-Levitt who is one of my favorite actors since I saw 500 Days Of Summer with Zooey Deschanel.

 The Premier was at the Friedrichstadtpalast in Berlin. A huge theater with a capacity of almost 2000 seats. The atmosphere wasn't the regular movie night atmosphere. Because it was the premier most of the people in the audience were workers and co-workers from the Berlinale and their relatives. So most of all there were people from the movie business which luckily kept the atmosphere formal and classy. Before the movie started Joseph Gordon-Levitt held a short speech posed a bit for all the thousand people with their cameras (me e.g. ...haha).
The movie was great although I'm not sure if I would watch it again. I do think thath Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a really great actor but I mostly like him in characters as Tom Hansen in 500 Days Of Summer which is the total opposite of Don Jon. And I don't want to ruin my perfect image of Joseph Gordon-Levitt. But anyways great Job Joseph!

Enjoy your weekend,

Blog: Tonstudio17

This is probably more something for my German readers. Or also just for people who like reading, speaking German or looking at German words. Well it's definitely something for people who like listening to both old-fashioned and new-fashioned music.

This is Tonstudio17, a music blog by a guy from Berlin who loves listening to music from generations which were long before his own birth. But I think a lot of young people now a days are a tiny bit influenced by dad's or mom's music taste.
I haven't been surfing through many music blogs yet, but it's definitely my first time to find a blog which luckily doesn't only show all of these "new-comer-after-one-hit-never-again-comer" hipster bands which all look a like and all sound a like.
But of course, what is a music blog without new-comers. But the fun of comparing the oldies with today's music is unfortunately fading away slowly. Thanks to Tonstudio17 which reminds us that everything new develops out of something old.
So if you are craving for new records and if you're wondering what they sound like, follow out Tonstudio17 and you'll find it out.

http://tonstudio17.blogspot.de/

Enjoy reading,

Michael Kiwanuka

Oh boy, he has a great soul... It's been a while ago when Michael Kiwanuka released his first record "Home Again" (March 2012). I'm sorry for not discovering this young (24 yrs old) talented soul musician, but of course it's still worth it posting about him.

 

Michael Kiwanuka is a soul musician who is signed to Communion Records, grew up in North London and son of Ugandan parents. After completing his A-Levels Michael studied Media, Arts & Design on Westminster University. His first EP "Tell Me A Tale" was then released on the 24th of April 2011 and 11 months later he released his first album "Home again".

His music has acknowledged influences from musicians such as Bill Withers, Otis Redding, Jack Johnson and has played with James Gadson, who drummed for Bill Withers.

Download "Home Again" here

 

1.	"Tell Me a Tale"	4:12
2.	"I'm Getting Ready"	2:25
3.	"I'll Get Along"	3:31
4.	"Rest"	3:52
5.	"Home Again"	3:30
6.	"Bones"	3:52
7.	"Always Waiting"	4:31
8.	"I Won't Lie"	4:06
9.	"Any Day Will Do Fine"	3:40
10.	"Worry Walks Beside Me"	5:02

Enjoy!

Melancholia

 Sometimes it feels ok.

 

 Mocky feat. Feist - Fightin' Away The Tears.

Have a melancholic saturday.

Music - Cvrbrthrs

Yesterday night while stuggling to fall a sleep I discovered these talented Youtubers who make to best and most creative covers and their videos are funny, too.
I'm talking about the CvrBrthrs (Cover Brothers) who are Andre K. Lai and Michael from Montreal, Canada. They cover different song, mostly from the genres Indie, Pop and Indietronic. These asian looking guys play a bunch of wacky instruments and produce beautyful sounds e.g. with chopsticks and bowl, glasses filled with water or with their old toy instrument and combine them with drums, guitar or piano notes which make it sound really professional. By using an adio editor they mix the sounds on the pc and add a nice, creative video to their uploaded songs.
My favourite ist definitely Gatekeeper by Feist.

Enjoy and check out their music on :
http://www.youtube.com/user/CvrBrthrs
http://soundcloud.com/cvrbrthrs
http://www.facebook.com/cvrbrthrs

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CSS - La Liberación

It's already been three years ago since the Brasilian electro-pop band Cansei de Ser Sexy released their first album "Donkey". At the end of august they'll finally release their second album "La Liberación" which is similar to the first one, a mixture of indietronic electro-pop. Well, not really a surprise. Unfortunately their new album doesn't seem interesting to me. I'll keep on listening to their first one.

www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy

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Oberhofer

Enough bloggin' for today.

http://www.myspace.com/oberhofermusic

Au revoir!

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