Air Review / Miriam Makeba Preview (Album 13)

(Air preview here) So. This album album is really cool. Sadly, I didn't watch it with the movie, which would greatly improve it I'm sure. I still plan on watching it. Listening to it was interesting, and I definitively could see how it would greatly improve everything with the movie. The songs are all pretty short, considering they are all just for the movie and probably used over and over again. The songs are also really cool, with their strings and their vocals being used as sounds, there are a couple with really really cool crescendos that I can imagine hearing during the apex of the movie. Pretty sweet stuff.

Favorite Songs:
     Playground Love
     Clouds Up
     Ghost Song
     Dead Bodies (Awesome crescendo)

Back around the horn...

Album: Miriam Makeba

Artist: Miriam Makeba

Release Year: 1960

"Traditional Xhosa wedding songs swing into airy African jazz moods, mellifluous Indoneasian lullabies, and infectious Calypso romps - myriad influences and styles working to enormous effect." - Miles Keylock

I don't know what half of those words mean, but I am willing to find out.

01 - The Retreat Song

02 - Sullram

03 - The Click Song

04 - Umhome

05 - Olilili

06 - Lakutshn, Ilanga

07 - Mbube

08 - The Naughty Little Flea

09 - Where Does It Lead

10 - Nomeva

11 - House Of The Rising Sun

12 - Saduva

13 - One More Dance

14 - Iya Guduza

Streaming: Radio3.net

iTunes: iTunes

Spotify: Spotify

Sounds worldly....

~mfm

The Shamen Review / Air Preview (Album 12)

(Shamen preview here) 2011 Grammys were on last night. I totally called who was gonna be Song of the Year.

Anyways.

I have said this before, it's hard to tell sometimes what makes some of these albums make the cut. I think that it has more to do with timing than anything really. The first album to do something - and it doesn't necessarily have to be super-awesome at it - is usually considered the groundbreaking album. So what we have here is an early 90s club banger. The songs are very house style (house techno), and from what I know the first album from the UK to really bring this kind of sound to the mainstream. I like it.

Favorite Songs:

     666 Edit

     Progen 91

     Possible Worlds

     Move Any Mountain (This song wasn't on the Book's list of songs, but when I downloaded it, it was added on as probably an after effect)

Album: The Virgin Suicides

Artist: Air

Release Year: 2000

"Seldom has sound and vision collided so gracefully as it did on Air's soundtrack for Sofia Coppola's directorial debut. The synergy between the images, which tell the tragic tale of five sisters with nothing to live for, and the French electronica duo's mesmerizing, drama-rish score is so great that it is impossible to imagine either existing without the other." - Jim Harrington

01 - Playground Love

02 - Clouds Up

03 - Bathroom Girl

04 - Cemetary Party

05 - Dark Messages

06 - The World "hurricane"

07 - Dirty Trip

08 - Highschool Lover

09 - Afternoon Sister

10 - Ghost Song

11 - Empty House

12 - Dead Bodies

13 - Suicide Underground

Streaming: The Virgin Suicides

iTunes: The Virgin Suicides

Spotify: The Virgin Suicides

The review made this album sound AMAZING. I may have to watch the movie as well.

~mfm