the video opens on an interior | the scene then cuts to

"The video opens on an interior. It is New York. We see David Swan, practicing diligently.

The scene then cuts to Emmy The Great, and both men, cheering loudly. Then, Emmy the great is seen wearing the hooded figure in the dark sky.

In the chorus, Emmy The Great lip-synchs to the camera, dancing romantically with a bra. Then, Emmy The Great destroys the pair angrily with both men.

The video ends in a desk. Emmy The Great is shown waving sadly to the fairytale prince."

Now that's a concept: Daniel Swan and Emmy The Great are teaming up. And then it gets better: you can generate your own music video plot as seen above and below: music video machine. Goodbye boredom.



I've got to find a place for the love I have within
pumping through my heart like an algorithm

pop-up cinema

I am so happy today. Like it almost feels unreal. And then this tune came by. A pop-up cinema remains on my still growing to-do list. Think about it. I am doing it.



Please meet the creators of the video: Noah Campeau and Jack Wolf. Additional Camera work and direction by Yaschar Scheyda. For more sounds from Tropics, click here.

a good night tune from Submotion Orchestra

Rainy evening vibes and days of hope. Submotion Orchestra sums up the mood. Chill. Zone.

to be nourished by the heat that radiates in the stars

You name it, you have it. I was thinking quite intensively of Django Django today and here it is: a new album Born Under Saturn is out 4th May. Star bliss. As always.



The video was directed by Daniel Swan. Please see more of his works here.

(...) to be nourished by the heat that radiates in the stars
Like down in the sun and get something for nothing

First light, the fields are ablaze
Cut through the maze, light it up quicker
Each day, never the same
Never again, get in in the picture

layers of sharing

Sharing good news with a friend. Sharing jazz sounds on Friday night. Sharing a story: Inspired by the sounds of nature and by the complexities of human relationships, this song uses small layered motifs to create a much larger sound. We can then see the new relationships formed from these layerings and explore them to their natural end. (via Azemobo)



Please check the full bio of Azemobo here.

night and rain

Perfect Thursday night. City. Rain. Piano. Nils Frahm.

sunday walk

Take a drive to Primrose Hill. It's windy there, and the view's so nice.



The video was directed by Julien Temple.

anybody lost or needs information?

Not necessarily lost but in need of information indeed. Music still being my radar.



This man makes a living by helping tourists and visitors to London find their way around with the aid of a large street map. In exchange he receives tips. Recorded near Long Acre, Covent Garden. 2 x Shure WL-183 mics and Sony PCM-M10 recorder. (via the London Sound Survey). 

patron saint of their neighbourhoods

The lovely voice came through the speakers in the part café. Natalie Blake and her friend Leah Hanwell had long ago agreed that this voice sounded like London - especially its northern and north-western zones - as if its owner were patron saint of their neighbourhoods. Is a voice something you can own?  Zadie Smith, N-W

tropical Peru

The kick-off of the week. Is Tropical. Stimulating enough. Good. Tune. Good. Vision.



Video Directed by Pablo Jones-Soler & Josh Greet in collaboration with Matt Exley.

tunnel vision

A retrospective look into Django Django sound. That how I want to see it.



that how you want to play it
break my heart and go home
why'd you want to go do that, but we're not even in the way

tunnel vision, never listen, no we're never going home

fun fun fun

Now... Speaking of giraffes and other creatures, let's have a look at Laura Gee's illustrations. A pure feast for the eyes. One of her work is a "face" (quite literally) of a new label Handsome Dad Records that delivers a new tune from Fun Adults. Fun. Fun. Fun. Good. Fun.

 

Please support the artists and purchase their work: Laura Gee & Fun Adults.

(...) Kun kylää koettelee kuivuus, sen näkee eläinten luista ja tyhjäksipuhalletuista
kullanruskeista nahkoista kylän ympärillä... se johtuu siitä, että eläinten tehtävä
on kulkea maailmassa ja kerätä nestettä ihmisten ulottuville.
Jos maailma kerran järjestettäisiin uudelleen, eläimiltä kysyttäisiin, tahtovatko ne 
jatkaa tehtävässään. Pauliina Haasjoki, Eläimet, Aallonmurtaja

keeping light in the window

Something very true and honest served by Quantic and Alice Russell. Delicious.



The video was made by Mochilla.

someone is friendless, cannot find their way
so I'll, keep my light in my window
(...) to make this world a better place

friday line | skyline

To sum up the International Jazz Day let's tune into Portico Quartet's world. Just like Friday. Line. Abbey Road. Skyline.



The absence of snow was sensational. To hold a cigarette without wearing gloves, to reveal one's whole face to the air! Howard rarely felt moved by an English skyline, but today just to see an oak and an office block, outlined by a bluish sky with no interpolation of white on either, seemed to him a landscape of rare splendour and refinement. Zadie Smith, On Beauty

precisely

This is precisely what I need: Aruán Ortiz & Michael Janisch Quintet. Good. Friday. Vibes.

silence yourself

SAVAGES is not trying to give you something you didn’t have already, it is calling within yourself something you buried ages ago, it is an attempt to reveal and reconnect your PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL self and give you the urge to experience your life differently, your girlfriends, your husbands, your jobs, your erotic life and the place music occupies in your life. Because we must teach ourselves new ways of POSITIVE MANIPULATIONS, music and words are aiming to strike like lightning, like a punch in the face, a determination to understand the WILL and DESIRES of the self. (via Savages)



She will talk like a friend

free at last

Friday. Let freedom ring! One deserves good jazzy vibes: Denys Baptiste with Ben Okri.



For, after the gospels,
After the human and divine comedies,
After the one thousand and one nights,
After crime and punishment,
War and peace, pride and prejudice,
The sound and the fury,
Between good and evil,
Being and nothingness,
After the tempest, the trial,
And the wasteland,
After things have fallen apart,
After the hundred years of solitude,
And the remembrance of things past,
In the kingdom of this world,
We can still astonish the gods in humanity
And be the stuff of future legends,
If we but dare to be real,
And have the courage to see
That this is the time to dream
The best dream of them all.

Mental Fight - Ben Okri

erasing

... then tuned into my new habits and now closing the day with Nils Frahm. Good. Night.

when those from Kendal are in a black cab

a good (night) song from Woman's Hour

Soothing the effects of Tuesday with Woman's Hour. Unmistakable. Good.



I wasn't certain what had happened to me. My experience most closely mirrored the "eat me, drink me" scene in Alice in Wonderland. I tried to access her restrained and curious reaction to her own psychedelic trials. Patti Smith, Just Kids