Some are Born to Endless Night. - William Blake, 'Auguries of Innocence' I bought this album over 10 years ago, on my birthday. It was terribly overpriced - probably with the excuse of being an indie import from a faraway country - but I felt so happy to see a Hawksley Workman record in a … Continue reading Some are Born to sweet delight
10 albums / 1 post
A corrente pede 10 álbums que ainda apareçam nas nossas playlists - uma capa por dia, sem explicações, e com a nomeação da praxe. Vou saltar os artifícios e apresentar os 10 da minha vida (que deviam ser 20 para caberem mais), um pouco por ordem de importância:
The Playlist Project: Dance (ABBA-free)
Para dias cinzentos em época de arraial.
oh, canada!
Canadian music: feeding my soul since 2005.Individual praises here, here and here.It may be the cold, or the boreal forest, or the openheartedness - but I'm more in tune with their words and notes than any other on this side of the Ocean.
música para dias de chuva
Photo: Julé Malet-Veale Cada vez mais acho que a melhor música de Inverno é feita por canadianos. Descobri os Hey Rosetta! há uns anos, graças ao seu genial conterrâneo e apaixonei-me pela miríade de cordas no meio das guitarradas. Este (passado) ano descobri o Seeds (2011), que canta a nostalgia do já-não-temos-vinte-anos e é um daqueles … Continue reading música para dias de chuva
Isidora Burns for Hawksley
At the time I was hungry for Paris and its bohemian sounds: I wanted accordions and violins and cabaret pianos in a 3/4 beat & Sarah Slean lead me to him. Everything I read spoke of this extravagant, flamboyant artist, but I came to see something very different. Yes, he's astoundingly prolific and, yes, he's … Continue reading Isidora Burns for Hawksley
twit twit
Have been told my twitter following is the size of the population of Iceland AND Greenland. May go to Iceland in 2010 to celebrate this. Neil Gaiman Eating cereal and drinking orange juice with added calcium. It's rock and roll baby. I may even brew a cup of tea. Black. Royal Wood Ah, thank you … Continue reading twit twit
almost a full moon
«Alas, I have been to these shores before, to steal a whiff of that healing, salty breeze. I knelt and left, hunkered away in the shadows.» Hawklsey Workman, Hawksley Burns for Isadora (imagem: Isadora, Beverley Hawksley)
so very much in love…
Silêncio que se está a cantar uma valsa.
estou apaixonada
Uma vez disseram-me que só gosto de aves raras. Começo a perceber porquê. Hawksley Workman - Jealous Of Your Cigarette
Isidora Works 