I took the cover pic when "visiting" the "dead town" (I don't know if the people fighting to have the right to live there would appreciate this term...) of Doel (Near Antwerpen).  It was painted on a wall and I don't know who made it... So thanx to him (her ?) anyway...

BLEEN - We Want

One evening in August, my Irish friend Stephen Mulligan came to enjoy the terrace with a drink. In the conversation, he tells me that, long time ago, he wrote a text for a song ... which never became one. So I take my guitar and we try to give it life.  The next day, the song was in my head, so I recorded myself, guitar and voice. And as there is a piano in the living room, I added a few piano notes. And there is a bass also, so I added a bass track... and a drum track, and finally ...here is the song.  
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BLEEN - Someone's Smile

BLEEN - The Days That I wished.

'The Days That I Wished' is the first song I wrote, about two years ago. This song was like a ‘sign’. It made me want to go on, to see if I had anything else.
In the end, there were 12..... I was happy to find this gimmick on the piano, the rest came naturally.

from the first album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"
(c)2012
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The Days That I wished

For once, the birth of this song came with the text, and its first two verses : "we are made of simple things, so why simple things are not what we succeed?" : it sounded like the story of my life ! So, I wanted a music that sounds like a tribal rythm, that evokes shamanism, witchcraft or something like that : short, an ancestral knowledge to which I do not have access...

From the first album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"

(c)2012
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Love Is Our Only Sunshine

When you say to people that you are a songwriter, three things happen :
First, they look at you weirdly, and they probably think "han, han, of course ..."
Then, they ask you : "Are you famous ?" (to what I answer invariably, and will always answer : "YES !!!... In my neighbourhood!")
Finally, because you are not "famous" (wait, they mean : like Madonna, Mickael Jackson, the Black Eyed Peas, Adele or Craig Ferguson), they give you a thousand of good advises, like : - Hey, go to "Belgium got talent" ! or - Simple : send your songs to a "famous" artist, or - Show your ass at tv, hu ! (my prefered, from far) or - Write a good melody ! (a good one, too), or  - You know... A true talent must come out, one day or another !

One day I was really fed up with those "thousand-solutions-people" I wrote this song.  And now I know why "famous" people doesn't answer to everybody ;-)

BLEEN's debut album
"Looking for Laika"
(c)2012
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05. let your heart sing

To say it true, I began here with the tablas sample... I don't know why, I always loved the sound of this instrument, and the swing of this loop made me mooooove immediatly (not you ?).  Then I took the guitar and looked for something... And I found this looooong riff ;-) (I must confess I'm quite proud of that, haha).  I wrote the lyrics about one year later !  Listening to the mix a last time, just before the mastering, my father (he is my first listener) suggested the little rythm guitar apparition in the chorus.

First album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"

(c)2012
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06. Your Emotions

I wrote this song after my grand mother dies, last spring. I didn't really mean to make a new track for this album, but finally,  it obviously takes its place ...  I began with the sentence which became the first verse and title : "I am from you".  It was the main feeling.  I was feeling a weird mix of relief (she was very ill) and a huge deep emptiness.
I hope those you love are by your side,
and those you loved are in your heart and your soul.

From the first album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"
(c)2012
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07. I Am From You

What ?  You’re not shy ?  You are sure of you, of what you are, what you think, of what you believe in ? You got more answers than questions  ? You are relaxed all day long ? You are the smartest member of your family, the smartest guy in your office ? ok, cool...  
I never feel this way : I doubt of everything, I think all the time to anything. I’m asking myself questions about any little thing.  «Even dressed and combed i feel like naked»...  But this song goes «lalala», so everything is all right, isn’t it ?! ;-)

First album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"

(c)2012
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11. Dressed and Combed

I wrote and recorded this track "on the fly", as a draft. Then I tried many times to make an arrangement that fit. But I never was satisfied by the results.  So I decided to let it like that, almost as the take was that day.
That's why you can hear everyday noises in the background : I was in my kitchen !

From the first album of BLEEN
"Looking for Laika"

(c)2012
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