Compare and Contrast

TIMOTHY BLOOM- TILL THE END OF TIME

BLOSSOM DEARIE -TEA FOR TWO

*Goes well with tea (Egyptian licorice)

Anita Tijoux - 1977 (L’excellente rappeuse chilienne )

mil novecientos setenta y siete

No me digan no  Que uno lo preciente

Todo lo que cambia lo hara diferente

En el año que nacio la serpien shhh

Katie Costello - Ashes Ashes

     Sweeter-than-normal-indie-pop.

       (contagious, clever, soulful, add a piano)

Oh Land-The Wolf & I

Nanna Øland Fabricius

Profoundly personal electro pop.

Toro y Moi - Alligator (remix for Tegan and Sara)

Clara C. & Sam Ock - This Little Light

(While listening, let's pretend gravity is 
just an inside joke we have with the ground.)

I dream of Mermaids and Motorcycles and meeting a man who can Dance.

Song: Koop Island Blues

I understand that fiction is fiction and must remain in that realm,

 but this is a rather accurate depiction of what I imagine married life is like;

I mean, who doesn't like cake?

Hail to the queen; the Exquisitely Painful; Billie Holiday

"There's two kinds of blues; there's happy blues and there's sad blues."

She stripped down the popular common songs rather than dressing up the lyrics, it feels raw, and real, and like reading a book that transports you to a depth of emotion and suffering you have never been. She is the jazz trumpet, “If you find a tune that's got something to do with you, you just feel it, and when you sing it, other people feel it, too,” (Holiday)

The general feel of her music reminds me of a line from the film 'Anna and the King', when the king's concubine Tuptim is about to run away to be in the monastery, (disguised as a man, so as to be near the man she loves) and responds to Anna's questioning; "Love is not a choice, If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?"

It is that old existential fetish of mine coming out that i connect this to Jasper's thought that life is painful, but not embracing life (despite it's pain) is a worse aching to endure. Holiday's music expresses this bravery, but is paired with an honesty of emotion and desire which is uncommon if not completely extinct today.

MUMFORD AND SONS
Making music for the love of it. (I Gave You All, Mumford and Sons)

(Lost in This World - Kanye West ft. Bon Iver)

Here goes Kanye trying to be cool by association....
and its sort of working....

A beautiful song and charming band 
stumbled upon completely by chance.

Serendipity, my heartfelt thanks.

Anjelie - Boom

“Mamihlapinatapai: A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.” *see artist Anjelie 

William Fitzsimmons

Sufjan Stevens and Postal Service had a baby, and named him William Fitzsimmons.

Place To Be

...she cried during the performance.

"To wonder is, for a brief moment, to remember that we have forgotten the miracle of bare existence."

Melody Gardot, a TRULY legitimate artist. I just feel an overwhelming desire to share. she was in an accident when younger in which she suffered serious head and spinal injuries and her pelvis was broken in two places. and with the repercussions lost her ability to speak, was confined to strict bedrest in a hospital for a year, and the effect of the neural injuries she suffered left her hyper-sensitive to both light and sound she began humming as therapy and is now involved in developing a program for music therapy and the management of pain. PS READ SIDDHARTHA ...in accompaniment with buddhism- she calls herself a siddhartha in regards to her 'art of suffering'- she speaks of how "to be truly Buddhist is to let everything go, your memory, your expectations"

Calls herself a siddartha

The 'art of suffering'.

Her only possessions fit in two suitcases which she takes on concert tours.