Ayo has been with Corinne Bailey Rae, one of my favorite artists lately.
I've been blogging quite a lot today.
So I will go straight to the point.
The album is a masterpiece (nothing less) and its title is "Joyful".
If you want additional information, just click here
The 1st song is the famous single "Down on my knees".
Just press play, i dont know what more to say, its just breathtaking.
The second song just happened to be chose by iTunes which decided to start playin it exactly when I was typing this sentence.
It's "Watchin You", a soft, sweet love song.
So enjoy.
Edit: Ok fellows, since I like you, I decided that you deserve a little gift, so here it is.
No info on this one, just press play and when the song finishes and that you open your eyes, well just leave a comment ok?
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Song of the Day: Talib Kweli
A couple of months back I discovered an artist named Talib Kweli. It wasnt a discovery per se since I already vaguely knew him and listen to one (or maybe two) of his songs.
During my last "raid" on the music folder of a friend, which was a great raid during which I get over 40GB of music, his albums made it up onto my HDD.
So I gave the last one a try. The title is "Ear Drum". And I must say, this is one of this gem you wish you had discovered before.
Talib Kweli is a polically engaged hip-hop singer with songs with lyrics that actually SAY something.
As usual, if you wanna know more about his life and work, just href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talib_kweli">click here.
So here is a sample of the last album "Eardrum" released this year (2007).
The title is "Give 'em Hell" and its one of my favorites.
You can find the lyrics here (click only after u click on play lol).
I would like to quote this part
"Trying to get to God but ended up doing the work of Satin
Religion create the vision
Make the Muslim hate the Christian
Make the Christian hate the Jew
Make the rules of faith
That you condition to and to you gotta follow
And God forbid you go to Hell
But if you ever walked through any ghetto then you know it well"
The second song is from the previous album "The Beautiful Struggle (2004)".
I dig the title of this album, it's a very good and accurate description of Life down here.
The song, With Marie J blige in featuring, is "I try", I really like the beat on this one, but of course the lyrics are great too, so Press Play
I know the post is already long but I couldn't resist my will to add a sample of the lyrics
"Yo, the things I'm seein' on the news is insane
A stock broker shoot his kid and throw himself in front of a train
A mother leave her baby home for two weeks all by himself
Three years old, eatin' ketchup and mustard, cryin for help
Tryin' to bring your struggle to life
The label want a song about a bubbly life
I have trouble tryin' to write some shit
To BANG in the club through the night
When people suffer tonight
Lord knows I try"
The complete song lyrics are available here.
So what you think?
During my last "raid" on the music folder of a friend, which was a great raid during which I get over 40GB of music, his albums made it up onto my HDD.
So I gave the last one a try. The title is "Ear Drum". And I must say, this is one of this gem you wish you had discovered before.
Talib Kweli is a polically engaged hip-hop singer with songs with lyrics that actually SAY something.
As usual, if you wanna know more about his life and work, just href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talib_kweli">click here.
So here is a sample of the last album "Eardrum" released this year (2007).
The title is "Give 'em Hell" and its one of my favorites.
You can find the lyrics here (click only after u click on play lol).
I would like to quote this part
"Trying to get to God but ended up doing the work of Satin
Religion create the vision
Make the Muslim hate the Christian
Make the Christian hate the Jew
Make the rules of faith
That you condition to and to you gotta follow
And God forbid you go to Hell
But if you ever walked through any ghetto then you know it well"
The second song is from the previous album "The Beautiful Struggle (2004)".
I dig the title of this album, it's a very good and accurate description of Life down here.
The song, With Marie J blige in featuring, is "I try", I really like the beat on this one, but of course the lyrics are great too, so Press Play
I know the post is already long but I couldn't resist my will to add a sample of the lyrics
"Yo, the things I'm seein' on the news is insane
A stock broker shoot his kid and throw himself in front of a train
A mother leave her baby home for two weeks all by himself
Three years old, eatin' ketchup and mustard, cryin for help
Tryin' to bring your struggle to life
The label want a song about a bubbly life
I have trouble tryin' to write some shit
To BANG in the club through the night
When people suffer tonight
Lord knows I try"
The complete song lyrics are available here.
So what you think?
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Song of the day: Raul Midon
Raul Midon is one of my last discoveries over the last two months.
Let me put it in a simple way: The man is a genius.
He plays guitar incredibly well and his has a beautiful voice.
Did I mention he is blind? More on him and his life after the jump
The song title is "Sunshine" and for me it is the best song of the album with "If you're gonna leave" (which will be embedded in another post later :) )
I saw him for the first time on "Taratata" a french TV emission on music.
I was amazed by his performance. So, although I dont like to embed videos (yeah not everyone has a broaband, high-speed connection) I think this one worth the trouble.
So just press play and enjoy
So, any comment?
Let me put it in a simple way: The man is a genius.
He plays guitar incredibly well and his has a beautiful voice.
Did I mention he is blind? More on him and his life after the jump
The song title is "Sunshine" and for me it is the best song of the album with "If you're gonna leave" (which will be embedded in another post later :) )
I saw him for the first time on "Taratata" a french TV emission on music.
I was amazed by his performance. So, although I dont like to embed videos (yeah not everyone has a broaband, high-speed connection) I think this one worth the trouble.
So just press play and enjoy
So, any comment?
Friday, October 05, 2007
Song of the day: Corinne Bailey Rae
It's been a long time without any song so I know you miss it.
Today let me introduce the wonderful http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
I embed two songs which are among my favorites. Needless to say that the whole album is a gem.
It's for this kind of album that I bought my Shure 210 (will blog on them soon btw).
Listen to that album is just a wonderful musical experience. This is what i'm talkin about when I say real music
Ok enough talking, here is the first song: My choux pastry Heart
The second one is "Till it happens to u". A beautiful song too (and I mean it)
Let me know what u think in the comments
Today let me introduce the wonderful http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
I embed two songs which are among my favorites. Needless to say that the whole album is a gem.
It's for this kind of album that I bought my Shure 210 (will blog on them soon btw).
Listen to that album is just a wonderful musical experience. This is what i'm talkin about when I say real music
Ok enough talking, here is the first song: My choux pastry Heart
The second one is "Till it happens to u". A beautiful song too (and I mean it)
Let me know what u think in the comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Song of the day: Tkien Jah Fakoly "Plus rien ne m'étonne"
This is my favorite song at the moment.
It's from Tiken Jah Fakoly, one of the most popular african artist.
His music is a mix of reggae and african music and he speaks about the sufferings of people in Africa and about the corrupted governments too.
You can read this (short) article about him on Wikipedia
The song of the day is entitled "Plus rien ne m'étonne" which can be translated roughly into "Nothing surprise me anymore"
Click on the Play button and Enjoy
It's from Tiken Jah Fakoly, one of the most popular african artist.
His music is a mix of reggae and african music and he speaks about the sufferings of people in Africa and about the corrupted governments too.
You can read this (short) article about him on Wikipedia
The song of the day is entitled "Plus rien ne m'étonne" which can be translated roughly into "Nothing surprise me anymore"
Click on the Play button and Enjoy
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Song of the Day: Robin Thicke
A quick post to post a song of one of my favourite artist currently, Robin thicke.
This is not the first time I post one of his songs. If you have missed it, I suggested you to read (and listen) this entry.
The song of the day is "2 the sky". A wonderful song.
So as usual, just prees play and enjoy.
And feel free to leave your comment on the song.
This is not the first time I post one of his songs. If you have missed it, I suggested you to read (and listen) this entry.
The song of the day is "2 the sky". A wonderful song.
So as usual, just prees play and enjoy.
And feel free to leave your comment on the song.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Store your complete MP3 library for FREE
As you may have notice I keep looking for useful web 2.0 services.
I'm mainly interested by easy-to-use, nice and last but not least, FREE services.
I think that this one will interest some of you.
You may have experienced the total loss of your 10+GB of Music during one your HD formatting. (BTW needless to say how Windows sucks!)
Or maybe you want to listen to your music at work (headphones in your ears all the time may not look very appealing to your boss though)
In both cases, let me introduce MP3Tunes.
Their service is quite simple to understand: "Store all your music library and listen to it from everywhere"
So, what are the features of the service and how does it work?
First you sign-up (damn easy) and you download their software (they call it "The Locker")
Then you run the software, tell it where to look for your music and just click on the "Sync" button.
It started to upload your music on theirs servers. That's it.
Now you can log in your account from everywhere (with a Web access obviously) and then listen to your music within the browser with the embedded player.
There are some additional features that are compelling.
If, while browsing, you come across a music you like, you can pass the url (you do need to have a file which has is specific URL) to your locker and it would load the song in your library.
Once done you can listen to it anytime you want.
They actually give you a list of websites where you can easily find Music ;-)
For example, they team up with Sideload where you can get a lot of free music and loaded it to your "Locker" but also embed the track in your blog (just like RadioBlogClub).
They second thing which is really cool is that the Sync orks both ways.
That measn that all the music you've find on the web is Sync down to your PC music library.
Ok, there is nothing revolutionary since thanks to the Donkey you can download everything you need. But I like the simplicity of the process.
You find a nice song, add it to your locker and you dont have to think about it. Everything is done automatically.
There are some limitations of course.
First, you cant load files bigger than 10MB (actually you can but you need to upgrade to the Premium account which is not free).
It's not a constraining limitation for most of your library except of course if you have some Classical (that's 1.5GB I wont synchronised :-( ).
Another limitation is that, to access to your library from a mobile device you will need a Premium account.
But seriously, who will want to do that. I mean I have a 20GB mp3 player (Archos GMini 402) and a 2GB SD Card in my phone.
Why on earth will use a GPRS/3G connection for which I would be charged to listen to music?
When you sign in, you may wait 2 or 3 days to get the unlimited storage, but once it set up, everything just go nice and smooth.
So if you decide to give it a try, let me know about your impressions
I'm mainly interested by easy-to-use, nice and last but not least, FREE services.
I think that this one will interest some of you.
You may have experienced the total loss of your 10+GB of Music during one your HD formatting. (BTW needless to say how Windows sucks!)
Or maybe you want to listen to your music at work (headphones in your ears all the time may not look very appealing to your boss though)
In both cases, let me introduce MP3Tunes.
Their service is quite simple to understand: "Store all your music library and listen to it from everywhere"
So, what are the features of the service and how does it work?
First you sign-up (damn easy) and you download their software (they call it "The Locker")
Then you run the software, tell it where to look for your music and just click on the "Sync" button.
It started to upload your music on theirs servers. That's it.
Now you can log in your account from everywhere (with a Web access obviously) and then listen to your music within the browser with the embedded player.
There are some additional features that are compelling.
If, while browsing, you come across a music you like, you can pass the url (you do need to have a file which has is specific URL) to your locker and it would load the song in your library.
Once done you can listen to it anytime you want.
They actually give you a list of websites where you can easily find Music ;-)
For example, they team up with Sideload where you can get a lot of free music and loaded it to your "Locker" but also embed the track in your blog (just like RadioBlogClub).
They second thing which is really cool is that the Sync orks both ways.
That measn that all the music you've find on the web is Sync down to your PC music library.
Ok, there is nothing revolutionary since thanks to the Donkey you can download everything you need. But I like the simplicity of the process.
You find a nice song, add it to your locker and you dont have to think about it. Everything is done automatically.
There are some limitations of course.
First, you cant load files bigger than 10MB (actually you can but you need to upgrade to the Premium account which is not free).
It's not a constraining limitation for most of your library except of course if you have some Classical (that's 1.5GB I wont synchronised :-( ).
Another limitation is that, to access to your library from a mobile device you will need a Premium account.
But seriously, who will want to do that. I mean I have a 20GB mp3 player (Archos GMini 402) and a 2GB SD Card in my phone.
Why on earth will use a GPRS/3G connection for which I would be charged to listen to music?
When you sign in, you may wait 2 or 3 days to get the unlimited storage, but once it set up, everything just go nice and smooth.
So if you decide to give it a try, let me know about your impressions
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Today was a good day
Today was a good day (actually yesterday but it doesnt matter).
I went to a very nice restaurant in Bangkok.
The name of the restaurant is "Once upon a time".
Very nice place, delightful atmosphere, very good food.
The adress is 32 soi 17 Pethburi Road, Pratunam.
I took some photos but with a friend digital camera so I'll post them as soon as I get them.
I dont have enough time to blog on this now (its 3:30 AM).But I will later on blog on that with pictures of courses.
Another thing that makes this day cool is that it was one of my closest friend birthday.
I know we kind of lose contact, but you know that you've got a special place in my life.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you.
And to celebrate, this song is dedicated to you.
Bill Withers, "Just the two of Us", a great classic.
So click play and enjoy.
I went to a very nice restaurant in Bangkok.
The name of the restaurant is "Once upon a time".
Very nice place, delightful atmosphere, very good food.
The adress is 32 soi 17 Pethburi Road, Pratunam.
I took some photos but with a friend digital camera so I'll post them as soon as I get them.
I dont have enough time to blog on this now (its 3:30 AM).But I will later on blog on that with pictures of courses.
Another thing that makes this day cool is that it was one of my closest friend birthday.
I know we kind of lose contact, but you know that you've got a special place in my life.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you.
And to celebrate, this song is dedicated to you.
Bill Withers, "Just the two of Us", a great classic.
So click play and enjoy.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Song of The Day: 2 Pac
People who listen to rap know that when we talk about rap, there's no other starting point than Tupac Shakur, the greatest rapper of all time (sorry Biggie).
It has been a while since I didnt take the time to listen to one of his album.
So I just had this tought minutes ago, "what the heck, I'm gonna drop two of his songs on my blog".
And that's what I'm doing right now
It's hard to decide which ones of his several great songs, I think I should avoid the most famous ones and make you discover the two faces of 2 Pac angel vs Devil.
So here comes the first one.
As usual, I'll start with the groovy one.
"You wonda why we call you bitch" from CD2 of the Album All Eyez On Me released in 1996.
One of the best album ever, and the first double-disc rap album ever. Dont restrain yourself just because of the title, there is a real (true BTW) story behind.
The second one is of course the calm one.
I love this song. It cheers me up when I feel blue.
The title is "Live goes on" and it pretty much speaks by itself. It's from the same album but on CD1.
And because I cant hold it, this is the bonus song.
Title is "Unconditional Love" which is just... Actually just press play.
We do miss Tupac as he was far above the current level of today rappers.
To find more about him, here is a nice article on his life.
It has been a while since I didnt take the time to listen to one of his album.
So I just had this tought minutes ago, "what the heck, I'm gonna drop two of his songs on my blog".
And that's what I'm doing right now
It's hard to decide which ones of his several great songs, I think I should avoid the most famous ones and make you discover the two faces of 2 Pac angel vs Devil.
So here comes the first one.
As usual, I'll start with the groovy one.
"You wonda why we call you bitch" from CD2 of the Album All Eyez On Me released in 1996.
One of the best album ever, and the first double-disc rap album ever. Dont restrain yourself just because of the title, there is a real (true BTW) story behind.
The second one is of course the calm one.
I love this song. It cheers me up when I feel blue.
The title is "Live goes on" and it pretty much speaks by itself. It's from the same album but on CD1.
And because I cant hold it, this is the bonus song.
Title is "Unconditional Love" which is just... Actually just press play.
We do miss Tupac as he was far above the current level of today rappers.
To find more about him, here is a nice article on his life.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
song of the Day: Muse Day, pure Rock
The first song of today is a punchy song. you may wanna check your volume before clicking on play.
Today we have "Citizen Erased" extracted from "Origin of Symmetry" the 2001 Muse album. So enjoy!
The second is way more cool. "Sing for absolution" from "Absolution".
Like we say, after the storm, the calm. Just press Play
Today we have "Citizen Erased" extracted from "Origin of Symmetry" the 2001 Muse album. So enjoy!
The second is way more cool. "Sing for absolution" from "Absolution".
Like we say, after the storm, the calm. Just press Play
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Song of the day: Robin Thicke
This song is just great. If your have decent headphones, may I suggest you wear it to listen to the fabulous job he has done with the sound.
The name of the song is "Teach u a lesson". Click play to listen.
The album is as great as this song. It's a MUST HAVE. The name is "Evolution of Robin Thicke"
I can't resist. So I'm dropping a second song untitled "Lost witout u".
What else to say. Nothing but "Listen".
PS: Don't forget to drop your comments.
The name of the song is "Teach u a lesson". Click play to listen.
The album is as great as this song. It's a MUST HAVE. The name is "Evolution of Robin Thicke"
I can't resist. So I'm dropping a second song untitled "Lost witout u".
What else to say. Nothing but "Listen".
PS: Don't forget to drop your comments.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Song of the day
The song of the day is a Toni Braxton song from the album "Secrets".
The song is "How Could an Angel...
It's just beautiful, so click play and enjoy.
Today is also the birthday of a special friend.
So Happy Birthday to you (You know who you are)
See, this year I didn't forget :-)
Good Luck for your exam as well. I know you gonna be fine.
The song is "How Could an Angel...
It's just beautiful, so click play and enjoy.
Today is also the birthday of a special friend.
So Happy Birthday to you (You know who you are)
See, this year I didn't forget :-)
Good Luck for your exam as well. I know you gonna be fine.
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Overview of Social Music
Some of my friends tell me that my posts are too long.
Personnaly I think that it depends on how much free time you have.
Anyway there are many things I want to blog about but I just dont have enough time to do so.
Therefore when I will stumble upon some good articles, I will do a short post with a link to the original article.
Let's start with social music. Social music is basicaly all the services that allow you to listen, share and sometimes store music you like.
Techcrunch has post a comprehensive review on the subject.
I have translated this article for Techcrunch France, so click here for the french version.
My favorite one is Pandora, a service where you enter any artist or song name and it automatically generates a radio with similar music. It's a great way to discover music you don't know in the genre you like.
You can create as many radio as you want and even mix them.
You have you personal page where you can display your favorite artist and/or songs.
Of course you can share your radio with your friends. Its a classic for any social network.
RadioBlogClub is also very interesting because you can embed a song in your blog and I think it's a nice feature that I use on this blog. You may wanna try it.
All this website are designed so that you can listen to good music everywhere you can access internet.
More to come soon on this subject.
P.S: If you can't wait my post on it go check mp3tunes.
Personnaly I think that it depends on how much free time you have.
Anyway there are many things I want to blog about but I just dont have enough time to do so.
Therefore when I will stumble upon some good articles, I will do a short post with a link to the original article.
Let's start with social music. Social music is basicaly all the services that allow you to listen, share and sometimes store music you like.
Techcrunch has post a comprehensive review on the subject.
I have translated this article for Techcrunch France, so click here for the french version.
My favorite one is Pandora, a service where you enter any artist or song name and it automatically generates a radio with similar music. It's a great way to discover music you don't know in the genre you like.
You can create as many radio as you want and even mix them.
You have you personal page where you can display your favorite artist and/or songs.
Of course you can share your radio with your friends. Its a classic for any social network.
RadioBlogClub is also very interesting because you can embed a song in your blog and I think it's a nice feature that I use on this blog. You may wanna try it.
All this website are designed so that you can listen to good music everywhere you can access internet.
More to come soon on this subject.
P.S: If you can't wait my post on it go check mp3tunes.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Thai Music is not so great
I'm not I have had the chance to listen traditional thai music. Most of the thai music I've heard was mainly music for young people. Understand music that has been influenced by western culture. I don't know whether this might the reason or not but one thing is for sure. Thai music is awful!
I do think that one has to be careful when judging a culture he barely knows. But here many of these songs were actually thai version of american songs. And even when it wasn't, it sounds similar.
I'm very eclectic when it comes to music, I mean really. I listen to every kind except the hard-whatever genre (even though there are exceptions). So I don't think it comes from me.
It is seriously painful to hear and when we go outside AIT to have dinner, the only thing that bothers me is music.
I would like to have a chance to listen to real thai music, I feel like I'm gonna enjoy it. Because these thai western-like songs are insanely bad.
As soon as I get a good thai song, I'll post it here. Until that time I let you listen this very good song. From Ben Harper again : Power of Gospel.
Oh BTW, feel free to let comments on any post about anything you like. Especially what do you think of the food pictures below?
I do think that one has to be careful when judging a culture he barely knows. But here many of these songs were actually thai version of american songs. And even when it wasn't, it sounds similar.
I'm very eclectic when it comes to music, I mean really. I listen to every kind except the hard-whatever genre (even though there are exceptions). So I don't think it comes from me.
It is seriously painful to hear and when we go outside AIT to have dinner, the only thing that bothers me is music.
I would like to have a chance to listen to real thai music, I feel like I'm gonna enjoy it. Because these thai western-like songs are insanely bad.
As soon as I get a good thai song, I'll post it here. Until that time I let you listen this very good song. From Ben Harper again : Power of Gospel.
Oh BTW, feel free to let comments on any post about anything you like. Especially what do you think of the food pictures below?
Monday, February 05, 2007
Ben Harper's song
This is a song I love. No matter what kind of music you like, you gonna enjoy listening this one. The title is "Morning Yearning" from the album "Both Sides Of the gun"
Just click on the play button to listen to the song.
More to come soon ...
Just click on the play button to listen to the song.
More to come soon ...
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