Um ponto de encontro para todos os verdadeiros amantes da Música partilharem as suas paixões neste domínio. Esperam-se críticas construtivas e sugestões sobre os mais variados estilos musicais. Fomentem a ecletecidade...
For my first post (better late than never) in this outstanding blog, I'd like to suggest a band I found a few months ago: Phideaux, named after its founder, Phideaux Xavier.
I don't know much about them or their music. The first album I listened was their latest one, Doomsday Afternoon (2007).
And I'm glad I found it. It's a fantastic mix of beautifully orchestrated prog/art rock and psychedelic melodies. Exuberant, mellow, stunning.
outra revelação da pop francesa chama-se Loane e o seu primeiro registo, Jamais Seule, com produção de Fabrice Dumont (Télépopmusik) e Fréderic Fortuny (Autour de Lucie), tem sido bem recebido pelo público.
In France, be french. And nothing better than start by listening to french music. Relaxing and giving room for the imagination to wonder as far as some decades ago, this is simply contagious - for those who like the style. Piano and trompet, battery, guitar and a great voice, here's what these 5 people band, 5 published albums, formed in 1995 have to offer.
Here's a link to my new MySpace dedicated to my Balkan Music DJ activities. It's still a bit rough, but hopefully will get better as time goes by. Enjoy if it's due to happen:
"The European Archive is a digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
And last but not the least ...
"Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.
And the interpretation of a youthful Maria-João Pires playing the Andante from Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 on the Erato label.
Mandrágora é nome de uma planta que possui virtudes fecundantes e afrodisíacas, uma raiz medicinal cujo fruto, idêntico a uma pequena maça, exala um odor forte e fétido. A raiz da planta tem a forma humana e de acordo com a crença popular, a mandrágora grita como gente quando é arrancada da terra. É também o nome de um jovem colectivo do Porto, que se destaca pela criatividade das suas composições originais. Temas que evocam a tradição musical Portuguesa, exploram o encontro com outras culturas e deixam ainda transparecer uma grande diversidade de influências da música moderna. http://www.myspace.com/mandragorafolk
The band's name originates from the Nadsat slang in the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, in which it means "milk" (from the Russian word for milk, молоко), actually the name of a milk drink Alex and his "droogs" consume mixed with narcotics.
A brief note to register my recent fascination with, guess what, another musical - Notre Dame de Paris.
Even those who don't like musicals can't be indifferent to this one, I've tested it, twice! The voices are great, the feeling in them contagious. Sad and tragic story, to be seen with time and open spirit.
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