no chill Iceland

Seriously Iceland. You have no chill. Out of your 329 100 inhabitants*, 329 100 are good musicians? I bow to you. Your world is a self-delusion. Your gifts are illusions.



Make sure to check more sounds from Vök here.

je vous présente | La Luz

Ethnic Culture Hour everyone. Bonjour. Je vous présente: La Luz. On repeat for the past two weeks. Lost in the city, so far from you. Life is calm and lazy part of what's become of you.



Please meet the director of the video Carlos Alberto Fernandez Lopez. Directory of Photography: Miles Burnett. For more Hardly Art Records, click here.

"The inspiration for the video came from watching a lot of public access performances of our favorite bands and the bygone practice of compiling those performances onto worn out VHS tapes to pass along to buddies," explains director Carlos Lopez of his vision. "The show we invented for the video is perhaps not run by the most seasoned or professional crew, and whoever is the control booth just wants to go crazy with the green screen effects. We also wanted to make a section of the video 3D as a bonus for those with the 3D glasses that come with every copy of the album." via Noisey.

the blend of the disconnect

Monday chill zone. That's how sound blends with vision. Truly one with everything.



Please meet the creators of the video: Duck Rabbit Studios (Production), Rick Joaquim (D.O.P), Paul van der Walt (Editor) & Nadia Storm (Sciencey Stuff).via Watermark High

new frontiers | new elements

I saw new frontiers – on the edge between what I knew and what I didn’t know – that I had long wanted to explore: creation myths, the periodic table, Euclid's geometry, Kandinsky’s writings, the matter of sound, and of colour, the stems of wild grass in a meadow, the shapes of the landscape. For months I wandered in a seemingly chaotic mix of images, thoughts and feelings. Then, gradually, everything came together in a dance, as if all the elements were parts of the same world, and myself within it. Ludovico Einaudi

what it means to be heard

Rearranging albums from the last year over the weekend. Gave a good kick-off for the upcoming days. If you still haven't heard, make sure you do hear it now. Akua Naru. Powerful music espresso under 3 minutes. That's what I call a new start. Monday vibes.



The video was directed by Double Rush. Make sure to get Akua's The Miner's Canary album here.

molam | singing expert

Soundway never lets you down. Closing the week with the North-East Thailand sounds.



North-East Thailand, the epicentre of Molam and Luk Thung Isan music. The term molam is actually two separate words pushed together: Mo meaning ‘expert’ or ‘doctor’ and lam meaning ‘to sing’. Hence the literal translation means ‘singing expert’. Many molam records have extended intros that allow a vocalist to establish the theme of the song, as well as flex their improvisational muscles. Luk thung (literally ‘song of the countryside’)is a much broader, rural style that had a bigger impact nationally. via Soundway

space pop

Revisiting works of Yoshi Sodeoka. Unmistakable. As always. Here he's teaming up with Ice Cream Cathedral. Now I'm in serious need of some gigs. LIVE. MUSIC. NOW.



ps. And I just realised that's actually my 500th post in here. Now... let's dance.

falling in time | taming winter

Blue. Light. Figures from the past. Visions. A weeping man. Taming winter. Teleman. 



The video was directed by Jonny and Tom Sanders and animated by Jonny Sanders.

new flow | insular

Kick-off of the year. Good company. Aesthetics of  Aline Frazão. In an insular manner.



The video was directed by Pablo Blanco.

decidi voltar atrás
desistir nunca dá paz
a beleza insular
não chega sem partilhar

walking in the clouds

Pretty much on hiatus this year as well. Despite appearances - the year has been full of good vibes. The best good vibes music moment - meeting the zen handpan master.

along with their stories

A pile of new albums on my desk. All to be checked during the upcoming days. Bliss. Plus new perspectives ahead and the sounds of The Helio Sequence blending with the visuals of Emanuele Kabu on top of that. Everything comes full circle. ...along with your stories.



For more videos of Emanuele Kabu, please click here.

"The main concept was to create something that continually collapses into something else as if it'll never be able to reach a proper form." Kabu via Dezeen

something different | something new

New perspective. Movie. Good talks. Good people. City. Walk. Tuning into my days off. Abundance. New music. New visions. Clock Opera's new album. November at its best.



"To coincide with the release, the band are also sharing a set of short, beautifully-shot, documentaries that offer a behind-the-scenes view in to their world as they craft what will become the new album." via Gold Flake Paint