Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Can't Keep Up

Well my promise to myself to post every day in my blog is failing miserably. By the time I get around to it during the week week I'm just too tired to say anything of worth.

Well a while go before I deleted all my old posts I featured a portugese band called Xaile. I'm in the mood for some bagpipes so here's a song that has a bagpipe kick later on for some raise your heels dancing. it's called "Pintar o verdade"


Maybe that will make me kick my legs up and start posting more.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Musical Life Update

I see I forgot to post again yesterday. I went out to a dinner party and was tired and stuffed when I got home :D

So I think I'll take some time on this slightly chilly morning to down a cup of coffee and do an update on my musical interests since it is directly related to my recent restarting of my blog.

I used to be an eurovision fan and participate in internet song contests but I found this was making me negative and since i like music and simply want to enjoy it I'm putting this competitive thing out of my universe. Eurovision is a stagnant contest and not always the best quality music though a few diamonds emerge from it. I'll continue to follow the contest but only to pursue my musical interests and find that odd gem.

I enjoy following the various national finals because it gives me a chance to find some artists and music I may like and allows me the opportunity to further pursue a country's musical industry. So on that note i will continue to feature some songs I discovered in this year's national final season in my blog.

I'm still a k-pop fan though this year the k-pop industry is rather lame and hopefully the year will get better especially since the last few years have been epic. I still follow my own country's music industry a bit religiously (Canada). And I like to sometimes just wander around using last.fm or wikipedia to see what various countries offer musically. SO I guess you could say I'm still on my magic carpet ride world journey.

So I guess you could say I'm still "Craving". So on that note I'll leave you with a song titled such by the Austrian born blues singer Saint Lu (stage name of Luise Gruber) who participated in a contest in Germany this year called Unser Song für Malmö with the following song.


Friday, March 22, 2013

Unplugging a Dance Tune

I promised myself I'd post once a day in my blog, even if it was just featuring a song without much commentary, and I see I've faltered a bit here.

So just to keep this post simple . I'm going to unplug a dance  song by the German dance band Cascada. A little song called "Ready For Love"


Monday, March 18, 2013

Uncover

Do you remember that 'One Moment in Time" when a 10 year old girl walked onto the stage of Sweden'stalent show Talang and wooed the hearts of youtube viewers everywhere? Well if you don't here is a reminder:




That girl was Zara Larrson. What happened to her? Well she is 15 years old now and has released her first EP this year. The YouTube video for "Uncover", a song from the album, received 1 million views in less than three weeks. "Uncover" was also released as the album's lead single, and on February 25, 2013 the song was certified Platinum in Sweden as a result of the song receiving over 5 million streams.

She's back ske's beautiful and she's got some soul. I love the dichotomy in this song between the verses and the music. Almost like the music doesn't catch up to the lyrics until the chorus and suddenly it's "Uncovered". You'll have to turn up the volume on this vid a bit.


Anyways. Yay...she's back :)

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Idol Fight at Eesti Laul

Estonia holds this song contest every year called "Eesti Laul" which selects their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. it's become common for singers to compete who also competed in the estonian idol show  "Eesti otsib superstaari".

There has been five seasons of this show so far and up to this year two alumni from the show had already won Eesti Laul and those were  Getter Jaani (who finished 4th in the 2009 idol season) and won in 2011 and Ott lepland (who won the 2009 idol season) and represented estonia in 2012.

And once again Estonia will have an idol alumni representing them this year as Birgit Õigemeel (winner of the 2007 idol season) will go to Malmo as Estonia's representative. Birgit had tried out originally in 2008 in the older Estonian format "Eurolaul" and tried out in eesti Lul in 2012 both times finishing third.

This year's Eesti laul featured a number of idol alumni. Including 2012 1st place and 2cd place Rasmus Rändvee and Elina Born. And 8th placer Anisa Vänikver.

Two other idol contestants from 2011 participated this year . making a total of 6 out of 20 acts who were idol alumni this year.  The winner of 2011 Liis Lemsalu and third placer Rosana Lints also participated. And these are the two I wanted to feature in today's post.

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Liis Lemsalu

 

Liis hails from Pärnu and was 18 years old when she walked away with the idol victory in 2011.  her winning performances on the final night included this rendition of the patriotic song.."Mis maa see on"


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Rosanna Lints


Rosanna was just 16 when she won third place on the idol show in 2013. One of my favorite performances by her was her rendition of laura Pausini's "En cambio no"
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Both had songs that I enjoyed at Eesti Laul this year though I think bad choreography was chosen for Rosanna's song "Follow Me" and personally though I enjoy the studio version I actually prefer the accoustic version.

Liis song was called "Uhhuu" and was a very enjoyable funky jazzy blues song that was my personal favorite of semi final 2. So my winner of the idol fight. Well originally I thought Elina Born and I do love the studio version of her song "Enough" but I found her performance a bit melodramatic. So victory goes to Liis!






 

Saturday, March 16, 2013

A New Beginning

Hello!! I'm back. what happened to my blog?

Well i deleted it. Yes that's right i wanted to start over again.

So just consider it a little "Stutter" but I was tired of feeling like my blog was sinking into the Mariana Trench.

So here's some music for ya :D