I have recently decided that Brazilian music is the best music in all of the world. In this post I will keep a running list of all of the artists that I believe support this claim:
Lo Borges
Joao Gilberto
Sarcofago
Milton Nascimento
09 June 2009
04 June 2009
Wherein You Will Find A Thing That May or May Not Be a "Song"
Furniture Huschle may well be my favorite band that isn't really a "band" and that don't really make "music." I mean, they definitely make music but it is in such a different realm from most other "bands" "music." What's really impressive to me about these "songs" is the fact that somehow they manage to still be catchy. I have been singing to myself "...he's making awful plans you'll get cancer in your hands" for days, almost weeks (this is a line from perhaps my favorite Furniture Huschle song- "Terror Song").
The solitary member of this "band" is Joel Huschle who is also in the great band Wckr Spgt (no I don't know how to pronounce it, however I have been saying "Wicker Spigot" in my head). You can learn more about the both of these bands at this here website.
Perhaps the most accurate assessment of their sound I have heard comes from my roommate who exclaimed upon hearing them for the first time "this sounds like the Mountain Goats mixed with Xiu Xiu- you are an ass you only listen to two types of music." While I take issue with the second half of that statment, I can fully get behind the first half.
Have a marvelous day.
The solitary member of this "band" is Joel Huschle who is also in the great band Wckr Spgt (no I don't know how to pronounce it, however I have been saying "Wicker Spigot" in my head). You can learn more about the both of these bands at this here website.
Perhaps the most accurate assessment of their sound I have heard comes from my roommate who exclaimed upon hearing them for the first time "this sounds like the Mountain Goats mixed with Xiu Xiu- you are an ass you only listen to two types of music." While I take issue with the second half of that statment, I can fully get behind the first half.
Have a marvelous day.
01 June 2009
A Discovery
I just found out that you can embed albums from Lala on a blog. Now that I have discovered it I think I will use it with reckless abandon and periodically put different albums over the right.
If you haven't checked out Lala yet you really should, it lets you listen to almost anything ever released for free once. You can also buy the online version of most songs for about 10 cents and the actual mp3 for cheaper than on the Itunes store.
A quick intro to the album I have over there right now. It is by Brazilian artist Lo Borges, it was released in 1972 and it was his first solo album. He is probably most popular for his work with Milton Nascimiento on the album "Club de Esquina" but to be straight up, I like this album better. It is a very short album consisting of fifteen individually awesome pop/acoustic/folky songs that don't particularly sound like anything I have heard before. There are certainly elements of stuff I have heard before, but Borges is one of those artists who is nearly perfect at bringing tons of disparate elements together and fusing them in a very interesting way. I have chosen this album as the inaugural sidebar album because it was the first thing I listened to on Lala. I had read about the album and was really itching to hear it, but I was unable to find it anywhere (I looked both in legal and illegal places). Finally I thought I would check Lala on the off chance that it would be there and lo and behold, it was.
Incidentally if you like this it might also be worth your time to check out Yonlu who is also from Brazil. While he is less generally fantastic one of his songs "Humiliation" is quite possibly one of my favorite songs ever.
If you haven't checked out Lala yet you really should, it lets you listen to almost anything ever released for free once. You can also buy the online version of most songs for about 10 cents and the actual mp3 for cheaper than on the Itunes store.
A quick intro to the album I have over there right now. It is by Brazilian artist Lo Borges, it was released in 1972 and it was his first solo album. He is probably most popular for his work with Milton Nascimiento on the album "Club de Esquina" but to be straight up, I like this album better. It is a very short album consisting of fifteen individually awesome pop/acoustic/folky songs that don't particularly sound like anything I have heard before. There are certainly elements of stuff I have heard before, but Borges is one of those artists who is nearly perfect at bringing tons of disparate elements together and fusing them in a very interesting way. I have chosen this album as the inaugural sidebar album because it was the first thing I listened to on Lala. I had read about the album and was really itching to hear it, but I was unable to find it anywhere (I looked both in legal and illegal places). Finally I thought I would check Lala on the off chance that it would be there and lo and behold, it was.
Incidentally if you like this it might also be worth your time to check out Yonlu who is also from Brazil. While he is less generally fantastic one of his songs "Humiliation" is quite possibly one of my favorite songs ever.
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