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 feat Elizabeth Fraser – Kala
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 a song by a new and upcoming [nu?] folk band from London, whom I happen to know a quarter of -The Accidental.
From their biography:
Take the man behind The Memory Band and co-founder of Trunk Records (Stephen Cracknell), the twisted songwriter from Tunng (main man Sam Genders), one half of Fence Collective duo The Bicycle Thieves (my friend Hannah Caughlin) and singer-songwriter Liam Bailey. Put them in front of a PC with the help of a few friends and the outcome is new collective The Accidental and their beguiling debut album There Were Wolves.
The song is their second single, ‘I Can Hear Your Voice’, released May 12th.
Today’s bonus clip is by Imogen Heap, in her song and video “Just For Now”. All done with her voice, her hands and a live sampler and some vocal effects.
Imogen Heap is an English singer-songwriter from Romford, London, most famous for her work as part of Frou Frou and for her 2005 solo record Speak for Yourself, which she wrote, produced and mixed herself. In 2006, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Today’s featured band is ”Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”, AKA Flight of the Conchords, or - Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.
They are witty, funny, honest, and have a great observations on life…
The duo’s comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series [HBO], which premiered in 2007, also called Flight of the Conchords.
The song I attached is called ‘Ladies of the World’, from their studio album, released in April 2008, and is just great (and very sexy…)
Listen to their words, watch the videos, enjoy the music…
Here are some videos…
Robots (The Humans are Dead) -- Early Live version….
The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) -- song starts at 00:40
The post-punk revival is a movement in alternative rock of the 2000s where bands draw from of the original sounds and aesthetics of the post-punk sound of the late 1970′s, some also taking cues and influences from various genres…
The song ‘Read My Mind’ is from The Killers’ second album Sam’s Town.
Today’s special feature is the video for Goldfrapp‘s new single ‘Happiness’ [released 14 April 2008]
Goldfrapp are a British electronic music duo, consists of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals/synthesizer) and Will Gregory (synthesizer).
The video was directed by legendary pop video director Dougal Wilson, and pays homage to a scene in the 1953 film Small Town Girl.
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
The first Monday’s Tune of 2008… with hopes for great sounds this year.
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn based avant-garde rock band formed in 2001. Their music spans genres as diverse as indie-rock, electro, trip-hop, free jazz, doo-wop and soul.
Today’s song is “Staring at the Sun”, appeared in TVOTR’s first LP Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.
As an extra, here is the video for the song “Wolf Like Me”, the first single from their 2006 album ‘Return to Cookie Mountain’.
Since I’ve heard about ‘A Melody for Saturday’ (Nigun Le’Shabat), a weekly email that Dina’s friend, Boris’ sends to his friends, I wanted to do something similar.
So for my first Monday’s Tune, I present “Cuts and Lies” by London based jazz band Acoustic Ladyland. Lead by Pete Wareham (Saxophones) and featuring vocals by Anne Booty, these tune is a combination of punk rhythms with jazz sensibilities.
Today’s song is a song by a new and upcoming [nu?] folk band from London, whom I happen to know a quarter of - 
