en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal The Last.fm journal for ohsombra. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/30/2517ys_not_on_parade_anymore Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:32:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/30/2517ys_not_on_parade_anymore i still feel appalled when i remember electrelane split up, okey, they are on hiatus, but it is all the same, to me only the present exists.

my top 5 electrelane songs:
1. Oh Sombra (obviously)
2. On Parade
3. To the East
4. Mother
5. In Berlin]]> http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/27/24vm2o_e.g.l._progress Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:23:29 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/27/24vm2o_e.g.l._progress e.g.l. stands for "ever growing list of things i want to listen to more carefully" and this is what I've accomplished so far in that regard.
Mind you I am no music critic.

- Beirut
I've listened to Nantes and loved it, it sounds old and a bit "klezmery" and of course I am big sucker for accordion. But so far other songs I've found by them aren't quite as good, on the exeption of maybe Jacques Brel's cover Le Moribond, but i am biased towards loving covers and even more if they are Jacques Brel's covers.
If you liked Nantes too you will love this.

- Keiji Hano
listened to "rolling on the time and tide spreading the colour of red" i didn't know the first things about him so i think i was expecting pop, but turned out to be jazz and it was a really good surprise. It is nothing particulary daring, but it is very interesting. You can listen to it here.

- Maurice Fulton
he is well known for his remixes of the like of Hot Chip... I used to get very excited every time I found a remix of a song I liked, but party music is getting tired, at least to me, so I am going to come back to this later, maybe on a friday evening.

- Strange Overtones
Maybe I am an idiot who can't appreciate the work of geniuses. I mean it is a a really really good track, the beginning of the song is quite promising, but then the chorus mmmm... I was expecting something mind blowing, a life changing song, like St. Elmo's Fire or Sugar on My Tongue. I a gonna give it another spin, maybe I'll realize I am a fool.

-En Ventura
There is a lot of talk about how every good band in Mexico is just copying from someone foreign, I haven't quite made my mind up on that as a general rule, but it might be true for En Ventura. Their songs are interesting to some extent, to me the highlight of their En Ventura EP is Los Granjeros del Amor for its folky quality, silly lyrics and the many instruments yo get to hear. Nice, but I won't be putting this on my ipod despite their ep's cover being so dammed cute.

- Jean Dubuffet
You probably need to drop some acid to get into this, or maybe you need some highly evolved artistic sense of which I am, of course, lacking. I still think he is one of the driving forces behind contemporary aesthetics... blablabla... etc etc etc ... but musically not for me.

-Glass Candy
listened to it. didn't like it at all. there are too many screaming girls out there and I only like a few of them. don't let the last.fm gods fool you it is nothing like the Chromatics.

- Cut Copy
i liked cut copy, it is fun, it is enjoyable. but ever since interpol there have been way too many bands trying to sound just like new order. and don't get me wrong that is a highly commendable ambition, after all new order is one of the best things to ever come out of britain (but i am no authority i would put harry potter in that same list).
but did musicians in the past (like Pet Shop Boys, Karftwerk or New Order) really did set the standard so high that no one has ever top it, or at least dared to part away from it?]]> http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/27/24vl3e_ever_growing_list_of_things_i_want_to_listen_to_more_carefully Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:10:58 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2008/08/27/24vl3e_ever_growing_list_of_things_i_want_to_listen_to_more_carefully Here is where I will list everything I want to either listen to the fisrt time or listen to more carefully.

i no particular order:

- Cristina
- Ricci e Poveri (!!!)
- Yximalloo
- Godchild
- Final Fantasy
- Oorutaichi
- Cornelius
- Holger Hiller
- The honeymoon killers
- The Music improvisation company
- Freeform
- Ruin
- Fumiya Tanaka
- Bo Diddley
- La Dusseldorf
- Neu!
- The happy family
- Heartbeeps
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Pierre Schaeffer
- The Walkmen Leonard Cohen's covers
- John Zorn
- Ultravox
- The lovers
- Claude Thomain]]> http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/03/03/4jwh_i_am_an_obsessive_listener Fri, 3 Mar 2006 16:11:55 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/03/03/4jwh_i_am_an_obsessive_listener I repeat songs on and on and on again, I am slightly embarrased by it, I try to hide it by using itunes instead of winamp, but then, if I hide form last.fm are my charts real?
but then again all the music I listen to while conmuting (on my ipod) or while sewing (on my player), that doesn't get charted, there's not a single Sonic Youth on my chart, and I've listening to nothing but these past few days.


Right now I am listening to Little Girl Blue (Postal Service Remix), it sounds a lot like the Flaming Lips, I've never actually listened to anything by the postal service, I think I avoid it because it's so popular, I tend to do that, it's a bit foolish maybe, but I mostly don't regret it.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/02/10/4jwg_cambiarte_la_vida Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:08:28 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/02/10/4jwg_cambiarte_la_vida es cierto que una canción puede cambiarte la vida?
ayer estaba segura que sabia a donde debería ir, y luego, luego escuche Who Will Love Me Now?
Y me pude ver en un departamento sin luz, con una libreta de direcciones vacía y kilómetros de distancia: él, él que me saco de entre todas mis cenizas y luego me dijo que podía irme si el viento me llamaba.
no quiero tener que preguntarme quién me querrá ahora. no quiero poner ni un centímetro entre mi respuesta y yo.

{letras}]]> http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/02/08/4jwf_escribo_una_nueva_entrada Wed, 8 Feb 2006 04:43:17 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/ohsombra/journal/2006/02/08/4jwf_escribo_una_nueva_entrada falta media hora para que sea otro día, pero aun varias horas antes de que amanezca.

te imaginas? Sketches of Spain, el amanecer, te imaginas?

hoy fui a monk a tratar de arreglar es asunto del gran agujero en el techo de nuestro comedor, escuche The Velvet Underground de ida y (Smog) the regreso.

leo el blog de alguien que esta leyendo a los diarios de warhol y se me antoja leerlos, pero no tengo disciplina para leer ningún libro. warhol a propós de los velvet. los velvet que también me recuerdan también a José, José y sus películas, José y su novia italiana, José y el paquete que no le mando.

no tengo disciplina para nada, por eso me corto en pedazos y me vacío en mis muchos journals.

que canción tan mas triste el Concierto de Aranjuez]]>