Feb
18
2014
I’m happy to announce that I’ve posted a new music review, the 7″ Angel from UK band Danse Macabre, released in 1983.
It’s a very obscure new-wave release, but also a very interesting one. Sadly the band, like many of them at the time, created only this 7″ before disbanding and fading into the complete oblivion.
Because of the rarity of this single, I’ve uploaded here. You can find the download link on the review’s page.
I hope you’ll enjoy it!
Feb
16
2014
Time to come back to an old passion of mine, sleaze rock, with one of the best bands out of the ’00s: Sweden’s Vains of Jenna (which sadly disbanded in 2011).
There is nothing revolutionary here, only some very good music inspired by the old sleaze masters (Guns n Roses is the main influence that comes to mind) with a lot of attitude and energy. Enjoy!
Also I’m happy to announce that I’ve started writing some movie reviews and analysis, when I’ll have a sufficient number of titles examined (for now, I’ve written three articles) I will start posting them here on the site. For now, most of the titles are pretty obscure and underground, or covers things that haven’t been explored before, since it’s pointless, now in 2014, to write if there is nothing new to say.
And now…Vains of Jenna!
Feb
2
2014
Following up with one of the top notch British band, the shoegaze champions Jesus and Mary Chain, here charting more familiar wave territories with one of their best songs, Darklands.
Jan
19
2014
Time for some classy brit pop! The Field Mice were one of the best (and most loved) bands to come out from the notorious Sarah Records label, which was one of the prime movers in the British indie scene between the second half of the ’80s and the first half of the ’90s.
Their sound is melancholic and sweet, tender and very heartfelt without becoming pathetic or sugary. This song is, in my opinion, their second best along with “quicksilver”. Their full discography can be found on the “how did you learn to kiss that way?” retrospective, in 2 cds.
Enjoy!
Jan
5
2014
Happy 2014! To celebrate, here’s the killer first track off Vince Neil’s first solo album, “Exposed”, an explosion of energy, great musicianship and class.
Happy new year!
Dec
29
2013
Merry Christmas (even if late) and happy holidays to all of you! I hope you’re spending these days in peace and happily, I’m doing so and I’m picking up and listening again a lot of bands that were gathering dust on my shelves for a long time. One of these bands is Royal Hunt and now I’m presenting you one of their best songs, age gone wild, played live in acoustic on the 2011 reunion tour.
Enjoy and have an happy new year! We will see each other at Illusion City in 2014… :)
Dec
8
2013
Recently I’ve watched a delicious French flick, Jeune & Joile (Young & Pretty), a very good movie about teenage existential estrangement, boredom, dysfunctional families and prostitution, somehow similar in some regards to Belle de Jour, by Bunuel…I suggest you to watch both of these movies if you haven’t done so! Maybe I’ll do a deeper review of these two flicks in the future.
The song I’m proposing to your listening pleasure this week is listed in the OST of Jeune & Joile, and fits the movie very well. Francoise Hardy’s tender romanticism and melancholic and poetic estrangement portrays the inner dimension of Isabelle (the movie main character) very well… enjoy! :)
Nov
22
2013
After a very long time, an update which isn’t only about music :)
I’ve extensively updated the page about Google operators, adding the URL specific parameters TBS and TBM. They are very poweful tools, so if you want to get the best out you Google searches, be sure to check them out!
Nov
17
2013
François de Roubaix has been one of the greatest composers for French noir cinema. He wrote the music for the Melville’s classic, Le Samourai (starring Alain Delon), and he also wrote music for a good deal of Josè Giovanni’s (a director who portrayed French crime in his movies from the inside: he spent 11 years in jail and risked the execution) flicks.
This track is a nice tune from the “Le monde electronique de Francois de Roubaix” album. Enjoy!
Oct
27
2013
Time for some good new-wave sleaze from Sweden! Enjoy the single off the band’s 2008 album, swingin’ at the fences.