Keren Ann
Brittain Ashford
Arcade Fire
Craig Armstrong
Nicole Atkins
Bach
Sara Bareilles
Bat For Lashes
Corinne Bailey Rae
Daniel Balavoine
Michel Berger
bim
Andrew Bird
Bloc Party
Patrick Bruel
Chopin
Cocoon
CocoRosie
Coldplay
The Divine Comedy
Alela Diane
Diving with Andy
the dø
Rob Dougan
Emmy The Great
Feist
Serge Gainsbourg
Anja Garbarek
Ghinzu
Goldfrapp
Guillemots
Massive Attack
Morcheeba
Mozart
LYS
Moby
Marissa Nadler
Phildel
Phoenix
Placebo
Portishead
Queen
Radiohead
Mia Sable
Snow Patrol
Sol Seppy
Regina Spektor
Sébastien Tellier
Emiliana Torrini
U2
Patrick Watson
Simone White
Rachael Yamagata
Zazie
Amanda Zelina
... and you ??
Movies
(500) Days of Summer, American Beauty, American History X, Casino, Crual Intentions, Elizabethtown, Une Epoque Formidable, Forrest Gump, The Green Mile, Hard Candy, Heat, Leon, The Life of David Gale, Lost Highway, Virgin Suicides, Memento, Minna Tannenbaum, A Million Dollar Baby, Nikita, A Perfect World, Pi, Rainman, Road to Perdition, Usual Suspects, Wall Street, Will Hunting
actors: Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Kirsten Dunst, Jean Dujardin, Jodie Foster, Cecile de France, Gerard Jugnot, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Natalie Portman, Jean Reno, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams
Television
serials:
24H, C.S.I and spin offs, Dawson's Creek, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Nip/Tuck, Prison Break, Oz, The 4400, Twin Peaks, Weeds
Books
Triste Tropiques (Claude Levi-Strauss), Werber, Clancy, The perfume (Patrick Süskind), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Vernes)
On this page i want first to thank these artists, who have given and will give to me such great moments through their tunes and/or gigs and/or by rubbing shoulders with them. Music will never be a minor art till it generate a PIN number to change of scene, emotions, beauty
I'll like the things which, the people who, i can be sensitive to.
Musically speaking, i've more looked towards folk/soul/jazz than pop-rock last months.
What i am seeking in a tune: catchy melody, singer/chanteuse with a recognizable tone of vocals, emotion, lyrics telling me a story, not overproduced tune, at last a good and sincere flow/swing involving me in the tune.
Take a little time to have a listening of my playlist if you want to get some samples of my musical tastes :)
A first glance at my musical universe with 3 live videos:
Regina Spektor - One More Time with Feeling
Regina Spektor is from New-York, somehow offbeat and quirky but full with talent !! Here is a live performance of an unreleased (so far) tune. If you don't feel special emotions and never get goosebumps while listening to her, i'm seriously wondering what has gone wrong with you ? :)
To realize the full potential of this song and of her talent of performer, you can go there (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQItEHHAPiA : sound only): same song.
The render of the acoustic - for the whole gig - notwithstanding the background noise, is perhaps my preferred one among all her captured shows, in so far as it reveals how her voice expands through the space of this venue, a theatre: it's striking, even you won't really be able to notice it on this song.
She's had furthermore a special stance in her interpretation during the whole show. It gives a unique touch to these songs and makes it one of my preferred live recordings of her gigs.
Regina Spektor - The Wallet
Another unreleased tune (it will be on the next record, "Far" released in June) captured during the Australian Tour last summer.
Soon on Tour in US and Europe.
Regina Spektor - Machine
This song is also on "Far". It's at the same time quite different from what she has been used to do, and totally "Reginaian".
It was one on the 5 totally new songs on the album, and probably for me the most unexpected one. It's really the song on the album that moves her music from solo artist to backed artist. It will also probably her first one i'm really expecting to see live with a backing band and thant i can't imagine without it.
Extract from Louis ' first record, "D'apparence en apparence". This song is a special release for the tour, hope you'll enjoy its musical arrangements as much as me !!! I highly recommand you to discover this french singer, who can sometimes remind you the famous Serge Gainsbourg. I've made a report of his last concert in Nantes in my blog.
Last but not least,
Anja Garbarek - Stay Tuned
Anja Garbarek is (also...) quirky, from jazzy and trip-hop influence and is a "must hear" too. Her last record (4th one) was released during autumn 2k05. This video is related to her former record.
Not an artist, but i love it and i love the serial too:
Rachael Yamagata - "Elephants"
You can hear this song on "Elephants ... Teeth Thinking Into Heart", a double CD album (see my 2008 favorite Cds in my blog for a short review) released last year
Who I'd like to meet: I don't wait anything, but i hope everything !!
Myspace is a ring, i enjoy discovering new people through crawling, reading pages or comments.
I want to be able to go to each of my myspace-friends'page easily, without having to browse too much through my friendslist.
So, it first means that i won't request anybody i'm not interested in for any reason.
It also means that i'll pay attention as far as possible to every request i'll get: i won't add someone if i don't already knows him/her somehow, or if i haven't taken time to know more about him/her/them by any way.
I'll see what will happen! It will probably be more surprising than what i could imagine anyway.
Rachael Yamagata "Elephants"
I really prefer this orchestral version (as on the album) compared to the acapella one she seems to sing live, but ... i'll soon be aware, never know, acapella will probably amaze me anyway ;) (update: we've got the
orchestral version and it was amazing, as the whole set was, ty so much Rachael !)
Sara Bareilles, Rachael Yamagata & Raining Jane "Imagine"
I've just found this video including 2 of my favorites artists singing together, amazing ! The image is dark, but the beauty is somewhere else ...
Rachael Yamagata - Worn me Down @ La Boule Noire 09.02.27
A very recent beautiful commercial. Here in particular for its music: "Everyone's Memory is Snow" from Phildel, featured on her forthcoming album Strange Inventions (spring 2009)
I love this song by BIM ( http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=153290087), and love the video too(it'd been very recently finished. made by Tim's sister, Katy -
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=54063952 -). There's talent in their both works, no ?
Sarah Russell "You Are" Live @ Seb Collective , 27/02/09.
First EP out: actual physical copy through her myspace page and digital copy through iTunes.
Sarah Russell "You Are" Live
My Top Artists overall on my last.fm profile(updated 09/08/04)
1 Regina Spektor 2,672
2 Marissa Nadler 811
3 Emmy the Great 531
4 Placebo 476
5 Rachael Yamagata 469
6 Sara Bareilles 457
7 Nicole Atkins 424
8 Melody Gardot 390
9 Ghinzu 361
9 Bat for Lashes 361
11 Simone White 358
12 Arcade Fire 314
13 Coldplay 299
14 Keren Ann 278
15 Alela Diane 276
16 Brittain Ashford 240
17 U2 234
18 The Strange Death Of Liberal England 192
19 Craig Armstrong 189
20 Katy Perry 179
My Top Artists overall on my last.fm profile (updated 09/09/01)
1 Regina Spektor 2,723
2 Marissa Nadler 830
3 Emmy the Great 573
4 Sara Bareilles 494
5 Placebo 476
6 Rachael Yamagata 469
7 Nicole Atkins 445
8 Melody Gardot 411
9 Bat for Lashes 393
10 Simone White 366
11 Ghinzu 361
12 Arcade Fire 314
13 Coldplay 311
14 Keren Ann 287
15 Alela Diane 276
16 Brittain Ashford 240
17 U2 234
18 Craig Armstrong 199
19 Patrick Watson 196
20 The Strange Death Of Liberal England 195
My Top Artists overall on my last.fm profile (updated 09/10/06)
1 Regina Spektor 2,760
2 Marissa Nadler 844
3 Emmy the Great 573
4 Sara Bareilles 494
5 Placebo 476
6 Rachael Yamagata 469
7 Nicole Atkins 449
8 Melody Gardot 411
9 Bat for Lashes 393
10 Simone White 368
11 Ghinzu 361
12 Coldplay 330
13 Arcade Fire 314
14 Keren Ann 287
15 Alela Diane 276
16 Brittain Ashford 258
17 U2 234
18 Craig Armstrong 199
19 Patrick Watson 196
20 The Strange Death Of Liberal England 195
Bonsoir cher Bruno, merci infiniment d'avoir accepté mon invitation et de me permettre de te faire découvrir mon univers musical, pour des émotions partagées tout en harmonie.... Bienvenue à toi et au plaisir de te lire, respectueusement,
La première partie, No Comment ! Agréablement surprise par la prestation du groupe. J'y allais un peu à reculons, à vrai dire, après le Fabuleux concert de Samedi Soir... Nouvelles têtes sur scène, ça donne un nouveau souffle aux morceaux. Bonne prestation dans l'ensemble, même si Brian n'a pas beaucoup communiqué entre les morceaux, domage.
Déçue de ne pas t'avoir vu, hier soir au Crazy Violon ! Tu as raté un truc. Des vidéos seront prochainement en ligne, via Youtube. En attendant profites, de celle là :
Re, C'est la nuit des Commentaires alors j'en profite... Je t'envoie une petite vidéo d'un groupe de Brooklyn : The Antlers. Il passe à la Maroquinerie fin Novembre prochain :
Re, Je ne me souviens pas que tu m'en aies parlé, désolée. Voilà un groupe que tu ne connais sans doute pas : ils sont de Vannes : http://www.cqfd.com/sand/. ++. Caro
Petit clip du matin qui fait beaucoup de bien, qui rappelle l'été et l'insouciance. La voix du chanteur et la mélodie te feront penser à un groupe que nous allons bientôt voir à l'Olympic...à toi de deviner... : ++ Caro
Slt, Pas de vidéos, désolée, que des photos, pour le concert de ce soir. Par contre, il a été filmé en totalité par une professionnelle. Je pense qu'il faudra voir avec Marc ou Ben pour en avoir un copie. Ça fait du bien de les revoir en live. Il jouait en premier. Pas trop de monde, dommage.. Le deuxième groupe, j'ai moins accroché. De bons morceaux qui pourraient faire sans aucun doute des tubes, mais ça manquait peut-être un peu de rondeur au niveau des arrangements. Et puis, c'est un groupe plus rock, dans une salle comme le TNT, c'était peut-être un peu juste. Voilà pour mes commentaires qui n'engagent que moi, bien évidemment. À Demain. +++. Caro
Petit changement de programme pour le Festival Scopitone le dimanche 20 septembre à 18 h 00 : Dan Deacon est remplacé par le Septet The Bewitched Hands on the top of our Heads (Concert Gratuit, Bd Léon Bureau à coté du Hangar à Bananes) :
