reminiscences of the sun

I have somehow forgotten almost totally how it feels when the sun is around. Luckily there is Lianne that can bring beams of light to this neverending winter and Tuesday. Good. Night.



The video was directed by Colin Solal Cardo from Blogotheque.

all too familiar when it feels wrong

morning lights

Quieting the echoes of the day. Waiting for morning lights to come.



I stand in the day for my feeling to rise
all my life
but you never be in love
but you never be in love
no lies in wait

o que c'est beau schön prittie prittie

"Zoe Keating playing her cello in the middle of San Francisco International Airport. On her way to play, Zoe opens up about the places she's been fortunate enough to visit and play, because of her music. A cello festival in Beauvais, the opera house in Sydney, Zurich, the New Mexico desert for the gasoline-laden simulation of a nuclear bomb, the list goes on." Read more on the story here. 



under the counter it's dark and the lady the nice Dutch lady who loves Americans and has relations in Trenton shows you postcards that shine in the dark pretty hotels and palaces    O que c'est beau schön prittie prittie and the mooonlight ripple ripple under the bridge and the little reverbères are alight in the dark under the counter and little windows of hotels around the harbour    O que c'est beau la lune
     and the big moon (...)
   we hurry wallowing like in a boat  (...) J.D. Passos The 42nd Parallel

on corner stones

I felt it all during Feist's concert at Flow. But then I flowed completely at St Vincent's performance. I was twisted away by the funnel cloud of her music. And so will you with these glasses and saving Jesus on Parisian roofs.



these days I sit on corner stones

it was worth it

My beloved Summer Camp. Just unwrapped their Young EP from the Rough Trade package. There is a piece of review of the album on the price sticker:

One of the most enduring qualities of music lies in its ability to be transportative - the very best songs can take you, almost instantly, to a specific moment in time, or perhaps a particular location, even evoke a specific emotion.

Well, of course. This brings me back to the fascinating conversation I had yesterday on the effect music can have on the human brain. All that made me read more about the matter and more ... and even more... with all the fuzzy and cosy sounds of Summer Camp's EP around me (see the BBC review here). And then I was taken into yet another dimension thanks to this acoustic version of Was it worth it? I can say it's worth it! :)

The video was shot in Camden Town, where this weekend Amanda Palmer is working on a video with Tim Pope, as she announced on her Twitter. Let's stay tuned.

feel it in my bones

This week has been filled with good days. All of them were my favourite and I feel it in my bones that there are more good ones coming :) I have heard from an old friend of mine and was brought to that song. Brilliant.



We have insurance on our hands, right? They are hilarious! Make sure to check out Tegan and Sara's Carpool Confessional, a TV show shot during recording of their new album.

what rushes into my heart and my skull
I can't control

dance, dance, dance

What a sunny Sunday! Going to explore the city in the rhythm of Lykke Li's
"Dance, dance, dance". 



Having troubles telling how I feel
But I can dance, dance dance
(...) Words can never make up for what you do 

waking up in Montmartre

Waking up in Montmartre this morning and wandering around with Lianne La Haves.

music and philanthropy

When good music meets a good cause my soul is satisfied. Arcade Fire, the best good imported from Canada, has been doing that since 2007 when it started working with Partners In Health, a non-profit health care organization based in Massachusetts.

Yesterday the band gave a lecture at the Univeristity of Texas at Austin (and somehow everything nowadays seems to be related to SXSW regions;)) about their support for people of Haiti. The band pleased the audience with a small performance that included "Haiti" and "Wake up" from their debut album. The last song brings to me a memory of summer 2011 and Arcade's phenomenal concert at SBSR in Portugal. And this brings me to yet another phenomenal performane of Arcade recorded five years ago... in the elevator and on the streets of Paris .

demolished thoughts

Summer nights are filled with the sounds of Thurston Moore's new album.



every time they come for you
you know it's time to run
everybody knows it's true
how your love has come undone