Last.fm Group Journal: The group for self-sufficient self-centered pretentious music snobs, twisted irony-loving fuckers, adrenaline junkies, bored kids willing to die young and people who know what fauvism is.

Lewis

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:30:44 +0000

L'amour
1983

Minu lemmikud: Urmas Alender

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:35:25 +0000

Urmas Alender

Vana kloun
hingelind
Kogutud teosed I (1968-1980)
2000
Kogutud teosed II (1981-1993)
2000
Kui mind enam ei ole
Armastuse ämblik
2003
Kohtumine Albertiga
2003
Liikuvas pildis
2008

Ruja

Need ei vaata tagasi /Ernst Enno/
Muusika: Rein Rannap 1971

Kätki ümber soo ja sammal, kidur maa ja mulla meel.
Põllunõlvad, metsaääred, mõisaluhad, laaned teel.
Ojake, kes Sulle ütles, kus on meri, kodumaa?
Tuhat ringi, tuhat kääru, ei see tee küll otsa saa.

Siiski sulin, siiski vulin, ei nii ikka edasi.
Ojake, kes Sulle ütles, ära vaata tagasi?
Rakkus käed, õnn nii kidur, vaevasammal, muresoo.
Muld on toit ja muld on lõbu, kustutas nii eluhoo.

Aatepõllud, mõttemetsad, ei see tee küll otsa saa.
Luhad, laaned, süda, valgus, talulaps, miks tõttad Sa?
Talulaps, Sa väike oja, koduoja, ojake.
Tuhat ringi, tuhat kääru, süda, jäta järele.

Ojake kes sulle ütles, kus on meri, kodumaa?
Tuhat ringi, tuhat kääru, ei see tee küll otsa saa.
Tuhat ringi, tuhat kääru, ei nii ikka edasi.
Talulaps ja oja süda, need ei vaata tagasi.

Must lind
1994
Loomade farm
1990

Toivo Kurmeti muusika

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:18:18 +0000

Virmalised

virmalised

2004

Tagasivaade

2006

Toivo Kurmet

Kaastunde Dimensioonid

2004

Visioonid

2006

In The Flow Of Music

2008

Zachary's Best Songs and LPs of 2011

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:47:26 +0000

Songs:

1. “212” by Azealia Banks
2. “Peso” by A$AP Rocky
3. “The Shine / An Argument” by Fleet Foxes
4. “Lord Knows (Feat Rick Ross)” by Drake
5. “I Seen That Light” by Lil B
6. “Minnesota, WI” by Bon Iver
7. “Gotta Have It” by Jay-Z & Kanye West
8. “Grove St. Party (feat Lil B)” by Lil Wayne
9. “Novacane” by Frank Ocean
10. “A.D.H.D” by Kendrick Lamar

11. “We Found Love” by Rihanna
12. "Glass Jar” by Gang Gang Dance
13. “Love on Top” by Beyoncé
14. "Die” by Girls
15. “Forest Green” by Mike G
16. “All The Sun That Shines” by Peaking Lights
17. "Midnight City” by M83
18. “Yeah You” by Shabazz Palaces
19. “I Promise You” by La Sera
20. “Day by Day” by Lalon In Yesod

Honorable Mention
“Chinatown” by Destroyer
“For Love I Come” by Thundercat
“True Blue” by Dirty Beaches
“Still Sound” by Toro Y Moi
“House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls” by The Weeknd

ALBUMS:

1. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
3. Lil B – I’m Gay (I’m Happy)
4. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
5. Drake – Take Care
6. Jay-Z & Kanye West– Watch The Throne
7. Peaking Lights – 936
8. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
9. Washed Out – Within Without
10. Destroyer – Kaputt

11. John Maus – We Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
12. Real Estate – Days
13. DJ Quik – Book of David
14. A$AP Rocky– LiveLoveA$AP
15. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
16. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
17. Panda Bear – Tomboy
18. Toro Y Moi– Underneath The Pine
19. The Weeknd– House of Balloons
20. Puro Instinct – Headbangers In Ecstacy

Honorable Mention
Grouper – AIA
Kendrick Lamar – Section.80
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
White Denim – D
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

The night before ...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:44:35 +0000

Sun 21 Aug – Jazzibrunch - Ólafur Arnalds

Hægt, kemur ljósið

Ólafur Arnalds

Last Goodbye

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:21:51 +0000

Sun 19 Jun – Current 93

Piano
Rivers of Babylon
Fabulous Dress of Baby Dee
Last Goodbye of James Blackshaw
White Wine
Love and Blessing

My Sweet 2010

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:44:23 +0000

Summary:
Arcade Fire
James Blackshaw
Baby Dee
Smolik
Get Well Soon
Sivert Høyem
Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurðsson
Yoko Ono

This year 2010 was full of various events, trips, music releases. There was a lot to follow and a lot to enjoy. As I live in a quite remote place of the world in order to get to the concerts of my beloved artists, I need to plan a trip well in advance: allocate time to navigate in various booking sites, by tickets in very interesting ways and of course carefully check and double check accommodation possibilities.

OK, let's start with Baby Dee. I know her as artist for some years now and I love her music and intersesting personality. She is incredibly gentle and robust at the same time. Her music is intimate and beautiful. This year 2010 she re-released A Book of Songs for Anne Marie and had series of concerts in Europe. I selected the concert in Vienna, prepared a trip, needed to change flights due to bad weather conditions, arrived in Vienna, took a taxi to the concert place just to hear that the concert was cancelled :( due to Baby Dee's illness. Honestly, I was more sad about Baby Dee than about my own pointless trip. No big problem! I attended later another Baby Dee's concert in Copenhagen and enjoyed it a lot, bought the CD and it is still one of my favourites in 2010.

Now I would like to tell about the Whale Watching Tour which I visited in Reykjavik. It is a project of Sam Amidon Ben Frost Nico Muhly and Valgeir Sigurðsson performed in different places of the world. It is music combined of classical, electronic and folk mainly, instrumental and singing, philosophy and entertainment. My first choice was to go and see them in London. This plan was destroyed by Eyjafjallajökull which did not stop its eruption and the flights of the artists as well as my own one to London were cancelled. OK, I made my second plan to go and see them in Reykjavik one month later but even closer to the volcano. It was also closer to actual origin of the Whale Watcing Tour: Valgeir Sigurðsson is Iclander and Ben Frost is currently living and working there. And I did it despite of all kind of unexpected delays and changes of my flight timetables still caused by the volcano ash. In this regard, I would like to specially thank Skonrokk for his support and help. I am sorry that I did not make to the concert of Menn Ársins and did see the photo exhibition of Sigurdór Guðmundsson just through a window glass as it was closed on Mondays. OK, and the huge poster on a building about Siggidori's exhibition was very impressive/atteractive as well. The funny thing is that the photographer about whom I was just telling was actually Sigurður Guðmundsson. I learned it a moment ago! Don´t beat a foreigner :)

I like Yoko Ono. I know that many don't but I do. I like the Beatles and John Lennon too. Yoko is definitely committed. If not to music then to life. And she keeps her promises. Like building the Tower of Peace in Iceland she always celebrates her love to John with performances. In 2010 the performance was called "We Are Plastic Ono Band" and I went to see it in Los Angeles. Although the musical effect of the event was not the highest it was kind of respectable "family gathering" of Yoko, Sean Lennon, Julian Lennon and ... John Lennon. And I liked Little Tokyo and Art District of LA.

This year 2010 I finally saw Smolik. We went by car from Tallinn to Warsaw to the concert at Teatr 6 piętro. It was so difficult to find the theatre from a huge Soviet time building with hundreds of different entrances. When we finally found it we all liked the concert. A relatively big band orchestrated by Andrzej Smolik with various singers involved. The music was chilly :) We all discovered and liked the old Warsaw too! Later in the year my friend RobertSpasiuk informed me through last.fm that Smolik released a new album 3. With some tricks I downloaded it and it is really good, believe me :)

I saw Get Well Soon twice this year 2010. It is an interesting German band, one of the few from Germany I think. They are a bit nostalgic with their melodies and stories, and also "hymny". It is important to mention that they probably follow :) ECVP - the European Conference of Visual Perception. I am not a scientist but I usually accompany my scientific husband in the above conferences. Last year 2009 the conference was held in Regensburg and Get Well Soon performed on the ship Ludwig der Kehlheimer a day before the conference. In 2010 their concert in the frame of For Noise Festival took place one day before ECVP 2010 in Lausanne. The band released the new album Vexations in 2010. It is a good one! In addition, I would say that their concerts fit more in smaller venues. Like a concert at the club Mascotte in Zurich that I visited earlier in 2010 was much better received than an open-air concert in Pully, Lausanne.

This year 2010 I fell in love with Madrugada. It is because of my last.fm friend uriah-hp who decided to extend my knowledge and taste of music with some bands. I fell in love slowly and hopelessly. I of course learned that the band does not exist since 2008 but one of the band members: the singer Sivert Høyem still performs. I went to his concert in Hamburg in an old bunker. The concet rocked, it was electric! I bought Sivert's new CD Moon Landing. A lot of good music but not above Madrugada.

Now I need to talk about James Blackshaw. His music is a special phenomenon. It is instrumental and started from 12-string guitar opuscules. I am not sure that it is just music ... because it touches and enamours. That's true that I haven't listened to the kind of music before when I first listened to Blackshaw in 2009. For example, in the first concert in Vic I fell asleep each time when he started a new song. Since then, I am a real follower of his acts: new music and live performances. I attended three concerts this year 2010: in Leuven and two times in London. I liked the concert at STUK in Leuven where he played with an Ensemble. I wish to attend more similar type of concert in smaller venues. Blackshaw's new release All is Falling is a bit surprising: maybe too intelligent and far from the previous ones. For so young artist it is indeed very positive to develop and not to start repeating the same over and over in coming decades. I have heard that he is proposing the next album to be a pop-release. Well, why not?

Arcade Fire has got my First Prize this year 2010. It is because of their wonderful album The Suburbs and the concert in Quebec City at Festival d'été de Québec. It is not only me who has deceided to give them the first prize in 2010 :)

Wait, 2011 is nocking at the door ... I need to finish :)

Zachary's Best LPs + EPs of 2010

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:25:31 +0000

1.Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2.Beach House – Teen Dream
3.Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
4.Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
5.Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
6.Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
7.Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
8.Twin Shadow – Forget
9.The National – High Violet
10.Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today

11.Four Tet – There Is Love In You
12.Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
13.Cystal Castles – Crystal Castles II
14.Warpaint – The Fool
15.Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
16.Wavves – King Of The Beach
17.Julian Lynch – Mare
18.Wild Nothing – Gemini
19.Best Coast – Crazy For You
20.Das Racist – Sit Down, Man

Best EPs:

1.Shabazz Palaces – Shabazz Palaces / Of Light(Sub Pop Release)
2.Girls – Broken Dreams Club
3.Twin Sister – Color Your Life
4.The Samps – The Samps
5.James Blake – Klavierwerke

Honorable Mention:

Bobby Mcferrin – Vocabularies
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Caribou – Swim
Jónsi – Go
Owen Pallett – Heartland
The Black Angels – Phosphene Dream

Zachary's Best Songs of 2010

Sat, 4 Dec 2010 20:52:35 +0000

1. “Heaven's On Fire” by The Radio Dept.
2. “Not In Love (Feat Robert Smith)” by Crystal Castles
3. “Round and Round” by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
4. “Monster (Feat Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj)” by Kanye West
5. “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” by Arcade Fire
6. “Tightrope (Feat Big Boi)” by Janelle Monáe
7. “Helicopter” by Deerhunter
8. “Shutterbug (Feat Cutty)” by Big Boi
9. “Shooting Holes” by Twin Shadow
10. “Walk In The Park” by Beach House

11. “Elephants” by Warpaint
12. “Heirloom” by Sufjan Stevens
13. “Boyfriend” by Best Coast
14. “Take It Easy” by Surfer Blood
15. “Children Of The World” by Big K.R.I.T.
16. “High Hopes (Feat Reggie B)” by Onra
17. “All Around And Away We go” by Twin Sister
18. “MmmHmm (Feat Thundercat)” by Flying Lotus
19. “Heartbreaker” by Girls
20. “Chinatown” by Wild Nothing

Honorable Mention:
“Bhang, Bhang, I’m A Burnout” by Dum Dum Girls
“Odessa” by Caribou
“Home” by Glasser
“All I Want” by LCD Soundsystem
“Solitude Is Bliss” by Tame Impala
“Baseball Cards” by Wavves
“Conversation 16” by The National
“Hahahaha Jk?” by Das Racist
“Skybourne (Feat Smoke DZA & Big K.R.I.T)” by Curren$y
“Return of 4eva (Feat Big Sant)” by Big K.R.I.T.

All Is Falling

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:08:58 +0000

Although many fans are very HAPPY about James Blackshaw's new album All is Falling the album itself is very SAD. Part 1 is full of well orchestrated frustration and anxiety. I would call it PUZZLEMENT. Part 2 brings us back to the dreams of past and creats sweet sadness. It starts introducing a nice STORY which we will hear later. Part 3 and Part 4 ask questions why? and how? There are fights between fear and hope. It looks like a butterfly beating against the window glass in order to find a way out. It is all about HOPE. Part 5 and Part 6 (how much time we have?) are DANCING into Part 7 which I would call DESIRE. It is something really nice: a flower, a girl ... a dog. This we actually wanted to listen. And then All Is Fallen ...