My friend and prominent musician Manuel Mera has published few new instrumental tracks with video clips on his YouTube channel as part of his Reconstruction&Development EP.
The clips are a re-edit of Werner Herzog’s film Lessons of Darkness, which includes imagery concentrates on the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
Track list: Addictive ; Afghanistan ; Buffalo ; Meridian
For this Monday’s Tune I’ve chosen to include the song “Halfway Home” by TV on the Radio, who were featured on Monday’s Tune last year.
The song is from the album ‘Dear Science’ which was named the best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin Magazine, Consequence of Sound, MTV, Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork Media’s readers poll, and was ranked 7th in Q Magazine’s list of the 50 best albums of 2008, where it was described as “art rock with a human face”. Continue Reading →
Greetings!
And today, to continue the story from last week, but sans politics, here are The Apples – an Israeli jazz band who’s members are from Haifa, Tel Aviv and New York. Continue Reading →
Hello all,
It is time to go back to the weekly Monday’s Tune after a long break.
For the first episode of season 2, I’ve decided to send a tune that Dina sent a week ago in her own music list. The track is by Max Richter, composed for the Israeli docu-animation Waltz with Bashir, directed by Ari Folman. Continue Reading →
The Cinematic Orchestra - Every DayIts seems that Monday's Tune has become a bi-weekly event, instead of every week. I will try to return to normality soon...
Today’s featured tune is by one of my favourite team of musicians, The Cinematic Orchestra, a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe.
Today’s track is called “Man With The Movie Camera”, from the 2002 album Every Day, released by Ninja Tune [independent record label]. The song was later reworked and was part of a 2003 soundtrack album by The Cinematic Orchestra to a re-released version of the 1929 silent documentary film, Man with a Movie Camera, by Russian director Dziga Vertov.
Man with a Movie Camera movie poster
About the band members, In addition to Swinscoe [from Wikipedia]:
the band includes former DJ Food member Patrick Carpenter on turntables, Luke Flowers (drums), Tom Chant (Saxophone), Nick Ramm (piano), Stuart McCallum (guitar) and Phil France (double bass). Former members include Jamie Coleman (trumpet), T. Daniel Howard (drums), and Alex James (piano). The most recent addition to the band is Mancunian guitarist Stuart McCallum.
The following video is an edited version of Vertov’s film, released as a music video for the song:
Enjoy!
Nisennenmondai - Destination Tokyo
I was planning to send something else, but I’ve just returned from a gig of a really cool band and I wanted to share the experience.
The performance was by the Japanese band Nisennenmondai.
Explanation in their own words:
we are 3piace girls band from tokyo japan since 1999.
nisennenmondai mean “computer bug problem”.
“bijin record” since 2006 are self rabel.
“bijin” mean butiful man and women.Guitar-takada　Bass-zaikawa　Drums-himeno
The girls are playing instrumental electronic stuff while using the “normal” rock instruments, with some help of the sampler-pedals under the feet of Takada.
Great music. Great performance.
Enjoy!
José González - Veneer
After a week break for some good times and some sun in Israel, another Monday is upon us.
Today’s main feature is José González, a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.
The song ‘Heartbeats’, from his first album, Veneer, is a cover of a song by fellow Swede duo The Knife.
The special for today is Readiohead‘s latest video clip, ‘House of Cards’ [from the album In Rainbows], which was done without lights or cameras, but with the use of a 3d scanner. Released last week, this is a unique collaboration between programmers and musicians, and with Google Code as the Host.
Enjoy!
Every Monday I send my friends a song. From now on I will have the text published here together with the song available for listening. Slowly I will have the previous Mondays as well.
Yann Tiersen - Les Retrouvailles
Today’s song is by a French musician and composer, Yann Tiersen, who’s mostly known for composing the score to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Amélie.
His latest studio album, Les Retrouvailles, released in 2005, features a number of high-profile guest vocalists.
Today’s song is featuring Elizabeth Fraser, who was the vocalist and lyricist in Cocteau Twins.
Enjoy!