'Leipzig' is the new single from Balthazar. Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XWPFvTurnTw

Leipzig

Balthazar - Fifteen floors
album: Applause 2010

Balthazar - Fifteen floors

Ville Morose / The Devil

Ville Morose

Let the monster fall

Back from the war

Jazz standards with a Neo-Soul vibe. Sometimes chill is nice.

Afro Blue (1959)

Ilo Veyou

She Was

Ethiopia https://soundcloud.com/jackhicham/ethiopian-groove-podcast-jackhicham
Hypnotic grooves from the legendary Tesfa Maryam Kidané

Tesfa Maryam Kidané - Heywèté

Cover #23 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini
Free download: http://www.unlock.fm/8a8

I first sang this song in 2010 when my friend Mauro Durante invited me to perform with his band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at the festival Le Notte Bianca in Puglia. 'Bella ci dormi' was traditionally sung by musicians under the balconies of women who were being proposed to but the tradition of the serenade and the custom of paying a musician to sing as a gesture of love has all but disappeared. Even if the concept of the serenade could do with a little C21st tweaking, I can’t help thinking that making a mixtape or a digital playlist for someone doesn’t have quite the same romantic quality as being sung to under a balcony in the light of the full moon but I may be wrong! 
 
Mauro visited me recently at home as we were writing the lyrics for a song on the new album called Bring down the wall, my words in English, his in the Salentino dialect. In between writing lyrics, we also found the time to record together a new cover for Vol II of Songs I Love.

Here’s 'Bella Ci Dormi', as always it’s a simple, no frills recording with Mauro on violin and me on guitar. I really hope you’ll enjoy it!

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Visit the website about the new album:
http://www.idreamedanisland.com
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Back from the war

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