Milan Kundera is Dead

Ann Savoy - Waterloo Sunset

Any Given Day

Titik Cerah adalah album studio ketiga dari grup band Naif yang dirilis pada tahun 2002. Album ini merupakan album terakhir dengan keyboardist Chandra. Album ini mengusung lagu andalan Aku Rela, Curi-curi Pandang dan Dia Adalah Pusaka Sejuta Umat Manusia Yang Ada di Seluruh Dunia. Titik Cerah masuk ke dalam daftar 150 Album Indonesia Terbaik versi majalah Rolling Stone Indonesia pada tahun 2007.

Titik cerah

Janela - Blind Man

Copyright Erin Wolf 2024
"Stories of Me & You"

Fearless Songwriter Challenge (7in7)
*Note: While the week imploded and I couldn't get 7 songs in 7 days as hoped, I pulled out an old back-up plan and wrote a song with all 7 prompts included. May have been a bit of a lyrical stretch - ah well.

Prompts:
1. Down the Hall
2. Open all Night
3. Stories of You
4. Tiles on the Roof
5. Hide in Plain Sight
6. The Real Reason
7. Go to the Store
--
i remember how you looked at me
over your shoulder as we crossed 
the rainy streets of new york city
it's almost like your eyes needed confirmation
i was real
your smile showed me it was real

you were the real reason i was nervous
so i let my fear hide in plain sight
now suddenly, after all these years,
you're only down the hall, and i wonder
if this is all real
open the door to see that we are real

and then we'll share stories of all me
and we'll share stories of all you
'til eventually new stories of we're shining through
we know they're real
and we know they're true
oh these stories of me and you

we know they're real and
we know they're true
me and you

rain's pouring down 
on the tiles
of the roof
but it all seems moot
when your smile's 
as warm as the sun

when we go to the store, 
you hope then door for me
but i can't help but feel like 
we're caught up in a dream
'cuz after all these years we're here and it's right
open the door and kept it open all night

and then we'll share stories of all me
and we'll share stories of all you
'til eventually new stories of we're shining through
we know they're real
and we know they're true
stories of me and you

we know they're real and
we know they're true
me and you

Stories of Me & You

Porcelain Dolls

Four for a Boy
Following the release of her debut solo album Mox Nox last year, Four for a Boy is a four-track EP of songs co-written by Alison Eales and her long-term collaborator Garry Hoggan.

Like its sister record Mox Nox, the EP was recorded and mixed by Paul Savage at Chem 19 studios, mastered by Reuben Taylor, and features artwork by Rhian Nicholas at The Passenger Press – but in a departure from the approach to the album, Four for a Boy keeps its arrangements sparse in order to showcase Hoggan’s gift for melody. 
The songs
The lead track is Minuet, a minimalist love song that pits its protagonists against zombies and nanobots and which is accompanied by a lyric video by magician Billy Reid.

Rain Song, with its drip-drip-dripping ukulele and piano, captures the experience of suffering with depression, while the shining autoharp and accordion of The Earliest Blue expresses the hope of recovery. These are also accompanied by an animated lyric video.

The EP closes with Play Along, a plaintive reimagining of the Carpenters’ Superstar.
Alison Eales
Alison is a long-standing member of the band Butcher Boy, playing piano, accordion and other keyboards as well as arranging for choir and brass. She is also a member of Glasgow Madrigirls and has collaborated with bands including The Color Waves (USA), The Very Most (USA), The Just Joans (Glasgow), Featherfin (Norway) and The Powdered Earth (UK).

Her debut solo album Mox Nox was released on Fika Recordings in March 2023.

“Blessed with a voice whose clear, bright tone evokes Kirsty MacColl, Alison Eales puts it to excellent use on this charming debut album” - Uncut [7/10]
 
“…her debut solo album Mox Nox (meaning “night, shortly”) is an opportunity to hear her light, pure voice in its own right across a variety of ravishing soundscapes, from the electronica-inflected indie folk of Rapunzel to the delicate chamber pop of Ever Forward” - The Scotsman [4/5]
 
“A sonic palette that binds electronica, chamber pop and folk with gorgeous indie pop, most importantly with the songs to develop all the wonderful ideas going on here… You are probably unlikely to hear many records as individual as this album this year, so make sure you hear this one” - God Is In The TV
 
“In the liner notes to his Tea & Symphony compilation albums, Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne writes about a late-60s pop microgenre close to my heart – the ‘English Baroque sound’, defined by ‘string quartets, woodwinds, and summer-into-autumn melancholy’. Alison Eales may be resident in Glasgow rather than Gloucestershire, but with Ever Forward, she draws from that wellspring to wonderfully yearning effect. The same grand but minimal style of string arrangement that marks Colin Blunstone’s Say You Don’t Mind or John Cale’s Paris 1919 is in full force on Ever Forward, as is the same refined, vaulting vocal, but the result is every bit Alison’s own. It’s the second track from her upcoming debut album, and if the rest are as good as this we’re in for a real treat.” - Fresh on the Net

Four for a Boy

Alison Eales - Four for a Boy - Minuet

Calm The Waters

A song about how love trancends destruction and death. How all troubles in the world become meaningless in the face of true love.
A duet with wonderful Norwegian singer Helene Bøksle.

Lyrics:

Some people say the end is near
and some say that it's already here.
But I won't feel the slightest fear,
if my arms are full of you.

Maybe we will suffocate
on poison fumes and clouds of hate.
But I won't care about my fate,
if my arms are full of you.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

Crushed by the oceans mighty waves
or ripped apart by robotic slaves.
I won't mind the crowded graves,
if my arms are full of you.

Burned alive by bitter ash
or a supernovas blinding flash.
I won't feel that biting lash,
if my arms are full of you.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

I just want to hold you while the world burns.
Let it burn, burn, burn.

--- 

Credits
from Ahoy! Side B, releases April 19, 2024
Svavar Knútur - Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Piano
Helene Bøksle - Vocals
Bassi Ólafsson - percussion
Örn Ýmir Arason - Bass, Synths
Unnur Helgadóttir - Cello
Karl James Pestka - Viola
Sigrún K. Jónsdóttir - violin

While The World Burns (Repainted)  [feat. Helene Bøksle]

Music and lyrics by Yvet van der Tuin 

-lyrics-
I was walking in the fields
looking at the sky above
Falling on to the grass
with my arms open wide

Dreaming of-------

You were running at me
and I just stood still
I was just looking
looking at you

Dreaming of--------

Around us only forests
as far as I can see
Living in the dream
where should I be?

Living in the dream
Where will it be?
Living in the dream
How long should I stay?

Dreaming of--------

Dreaming of

Dreaming Of

Fika Recordings is a diy indie[pop] label run from London.


Alison Eales - Four for a Boy - Minuet

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