whole again

Paula and Karol (Paula i Karol in Polish :)). I discoverd them accidentaly last spring wandering and getting lost in the vast bandcamp website. They really cheered up my spring. This year they seem to do that once again. The Guardian called them Poland's superheroes as it's quoted on their bandcamp site. They are my heros today as they wash away all the tiredness from me. How come I missed their appearance at SXSW? Oh, yes, I remember, it was insane. And is it just me or does Paula look a bit like Alanis?



(...) this hole inside my chest seems to taken all the best of what was mine

Meet the director of the video Robert Bęza (ah, not so much info on him).

get funky with Bruno "Patchworks" Hovart

sipping Burgundy tonight

Feeling a bit like new here again after a few days off.



I'll need a little room to sway (...)
I am a lion, a tiger sleeping under my skin (...)

Meet the directors of the video Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.

waking up in Montmartre

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

18 weeks to go

All righty. I don't have to perhaps go to such extreme and move. All I have to do is simply move in time till summer so I can embark the festival season. The posh and city-orientated Flow Festival (see the 18 weeks to go teaser :)) gets new artists. Yeah. We are all happy about it. Bobby Womack, Yann Tiersen, Korallreven (!!!). Well, all three of them get three exclamation marks as well as these new names I am excited to see in the festival line-up: Burning Hearts from Finland, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou from Benin and Tamikrest from Mali. Not to mention the ones confirmed before: Feist, Björk, Ane Brun and St. Vincent. Life's good.

don't leave my mind

Speaking of Azure Ray: here's a wonderful version of Don't Leave My Mind from their Drawing Down the Moon album. Ah, I would so much go now where no one knows me and where the winter is kind. All that dream pop mood Maria and Orenda create is quite suitable for this hazy-lazy Easter Sunday. Isn't the cover of this single simply beautiful? :) Enjoy.
 

window

The sounds of sweet nothing are delivered by James Husband this time. I wouldn't mind to have a husband like that. He seems to organise things in a pretty funny way and definitely knows how to pick up (also literally ;)) good people to work with. Here's some great acting by Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink from Azure Ray. The video was directed by Matthew Harfield and I sincerely have no idea who's that but still the credits go to him.

washy, broken and disturbed

A brand new video from Django Django. I really like it. It's so detached, washy, broken and disturbed in many ways. And yet complete both in sound and vision. But I guess it's kind of a default feature when it comes to this band :). See more works from Focus Creeps (yes, lots of Cass McCombs and Girls).

it still hits me like a rock

My player got stuck with this song today God knows for how many times. "And even after all this time (...), it still hits me like a rock." Well, at least after that tutorial, it shouldn't take much to make you people dance. But perhaps I should  move on to another song now ;)

as a matter of coincidence

Brought to many things as a matter of coincidence today. Summer Camp is one of them. Summer in my mind. Tomorrow picking up Coxon's new longplay. 



Meet the director of the video Chris Boyle.

Cold nights, so sick of cold nights
I've wasting all my life in a black house where I grew up
Hold tight, keep saying hold tight
I don’t know what I’m waiting for
And when it comes I still want more
And I’ve been locked away these great great days
And the time we spent is not our own anymore.

a good song from Tigercats

Another band to watch in 2012. Surprisingly enough, they are British :)
Someone described them quite accurately "Tigercats are that rarest of bands, an indie-pop act you can actually dance to.." So, do I see you dancing there? :)

Tigercats come from the known family of Haircut Records and their new album will be released by Fika Recordings.

whole new way

I like Mondays. They always hold something good in stock for me and give new perspectives. There is always something new to wait for. A whole new way! :) I think it's a good time to start officially counting days to SBSR. Faltam 94 dias. 94 days left. The Horrors and much more to come and anticipate. So much sun to devour!



Meet the director of the video Dave Ma (responsible also for Wild Beasts' Albatross). Such a small world.

I see a whole new way now.
I see a new beginning.
(...) I see a whole new vision.