Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Raised by Swans - Violet Light

Just watched Chloe today, so I have to talk about this band, Raised by Swan. To be very honest, Although I've lived in Canada for years, I really don't know much about Canadian bands and musicians, I know thats a shame, but I guess most of the Canadian musics are just not my cup of tea.

The movie is just okay, not like amazing, Amanda Seyfried is stunning tho. One interesting thing about this film is the film is actually like a promotional film for the city of Toronto. The film was shot in downtown toronto and it shows tons of landmarks of Toronto and I have to say Toronto has never been this pretty before in the history of movie. The film even shows the real names of the restaurants that the characters go, which is rather strange for a movie to do. Therefore, it makes so much sense that the movie chose a Canadian band for the theme song. The one they chose was Violet Light by Raised by Swan and I absolutely love it. Check out their other songs too, they are amazing.


Monday, 26 April 2010

Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear

Joanna Newsom is an American harpist, pianist, singer-songwriter. The first time I listened to this song, the song was performed by Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy. At the time I didn't know it was a cover song and Owen Pallett's version of the song is just lovely. Later on I realized this song actually has an original version and the singer is called Joanna Newsom, who wrote the song as well. However, I wasn't sure if I like it when I first played her version because she sang with a very special, weird voice. A voice of an old hag and an insolent child. However, after watching her live performance on youtube, I changed my view of her. Her unique voice does suit the song very well and I started to like it more and more.

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Lali Puna - Together in Electric Dreams

lets have somthing mellow today. :)

Lali Puna is electronica band that base in Germany. When I first heard of this song I've decided I got to get the whole album. I really really love this song and other Lali Puna's musics. I usually found it very hard to communicate with electro musics but I found this Puna's musics are very easy to be sunk into.

Saturday, 24 April 2010

Milow - Ayo Technology

Jonathan Vandenbroeck, aka Milow, is a Belgium singer who is active within European counties since 2004. The most recognizable song of his is probably the cover song of 50 cent's Ayo Technology. the song was played over 33,000,000 times on youtube.

Sohodolls - Bang Bang Bang Bang



Sohodolls is a UK electro group from London. Their hits includes Stripper and I'm not cool. The latter is popular due to its used in the popular us TV series gossip girl. The song I am sharing with you guys is called Bang Bang Bang Bang

Friday, 23 April 2010

Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner

Tom's Diner probably is one of the most important and successful song in Suzanne Vega's music career. The version that we usually hear is probably the one that features the English dance pop group DNA, however, her song was originally recorded in a cappella style in 1981 (because she didn't know how to play piano at the time). The song in the following video is a version that edited by a youtuber who merge the Vage's a cappella style of the song with his own piano. Pretty interesting.