music – Isidora Works

Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018 M English, My Pen

Brain on Cocaine

If you go through my music collection today, you'll find heaps of alternative everything, Canadian indie, progressive metal and jazz oldies. But, as a teen, I was all about pop and radio-friendly songs, and no one struck a chord with 14-year-old me like Take That. I fiercely began writing my own songs (spoiler alert: they … Continue reading Brain on Cocaine

Oct 20, 2018Sep 22, 2019 M Digital, English, My Eye, My Pen

Spiritual Front plays The Smiths – and themselves

"Don't think of this as a Spiritual Front concert. Think of it as a party", frontman Simone Salvatore told us. And how right he was. Last night's Spiritual Front show in Lisbon's Sabotage Rock Club almost felt like those times when you hang out with that friend of yours who plays the guitar and serenades … Continue reading Spiritual Front plays The Smiths – and themselves

Aug 17, 2018Aug 17, 2018 M English, My Pen, My Pencil

Some are Born to sweet delight

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

Jun 18, 2018Oct 29, 2018 M Blurb, Português

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:

Jun 12, 2018Jun 12, 2018 M The Playlist Project

The Playlist Project: Dance (ABBA-free)

Para dias cinzentos em época de arraial.

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018 M English, My Pen, The Playlist Project

The Playlist Project: The Endless

Hi, my name is Marta and I have a playlist addiction. Songs about family, songs with a colour in the title, songs that reference mythology or scientific concepts. Songs in 3/4 time signature - I have one for them all. It's an entertaining way of releasing obsessive tendencies while discovering new music. Each playlist ends … Continue reading The Playlist Project: The Endless

May 2, 2018 M Blurb

Playing: The Beatles 2.0

What's it for? Back and forth

Feb 16, 2017Mar 26, 2018 M English, My Pen

Make Good Art

There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen, Anthem There is tremendous power in joy. It recharges you. It can be used as a shield against big, bad, scary creatures that threaten you with darkness. Better yet, it can be stored for subsequent use when these gloomy creatures … Continue reading Make Good Art

Aug 18, 2016Mar 10, 2017 M Blurb

Nostalgia

Going back to 90s music for some unknown reason. This is still one of the best, classier pop albums of all time. You Have Been Loved is heartbreakingly beautiful.

Mar 1, 2015Sep 12, 2018 M Digital, My Eye

Barry White Gone Wrong

Barry White Gone Wrong @ Sabotage

Dec 24, 2014Mar 22, 2019 M My Pen, Pen, Verse

dilettante

maybe I should take up songwriting again though I never could play any instrument well enough to satisfy you melodies in my head.

Aug 27, 2014Sep 9, 2016 M Blurb, Pen

nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Only just noticed that Hey Rosetta! quote The Handmaid's Tale on a song from their debut album.

Jul 16, 2014Mar 1, 2018 M English, My Pen, Pen

europa geht durch mich

This past week, the Manic Street Preachers released the brilliant Futurology and I realized I never truly felt that sense of Europe they talk about - maybe insular eyes see it as something a lot more close-knitted than it really is. My country joined the EU four years after I was born, back when it was still the EEC. Along with … Continue reading europa geht durch mich

May 14, 2014Mar 1, 2018 M Blurb, English

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.

Mar 25, 2014Feb 28, 2018 M My Pen, Pen, Português

“I’ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else”

Always the late bloomer, foi preciso chegar aos trintas-e para ouvir de forma obsessiva álbuns com 20 anos (1994 já foi há 20 anos...?), que gritam angústias existenciais, revolta contra políticos e psicopatas, e me fazem cantarolar na rua there ain't no black in the union jack. O belíssimo Journal, com o melhor dos dois … Continue reading “I’ve been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else”

Mar 12, 2013Sep 13, 2016 M My Eye

joão

Lousy Guru III on Flickr.

Nov 9, 2011Mar 1, 2018 M English, [2010 - 2011] Isidora Masson

somebody’s suffering infected my dreams

Apr 6, 2011Oct 5, 2018 M Best Of, English, My Pen, Pen, [2010 - 2011] Isidora Masson

Sister Sarah

Our lives were full of bohemian friends with sketchbooks and cigarettes, orchestras, poetry, philosophy and science. A ton of leather cover books. We would get drunk on joie de vivre... and many a bottle of red wine. The more I learn about her mind and heart, the more I feel like Sarah Slean is a … Continue reading Sister Sarah

Sep 20, 2010Oct 5, 2018 M Best Of, My Pen, Pen, [2010 - 2011] Isidora Masson

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